How can I create a workflow for Release Management?

[Aurélie Henry]

Dear community,

I am working on a multi agency project and if Jira is perfect to track work, backlogs and versions, the release part of the process is not tracked yet.

A release to live instances requires coordination between 3 or 4 agencies + client and we are using email to monitor the different steps (code, content, activation, clear cache, live reviews...)

I'd like to monitor the technical steps of the release/editorial publication using a Jira workflow or any other tool but email ;)

Thank you so much for any recommendation in that regard.

Best,

Aurélie 

[David Berclaz (Apwide) · Accepted solution]

Hello @Aurélie Henry

For this kind of use case, I would use a new Jira issue type (called Release or Deployment) with:

• A custom workflow for the main steps that cannot be done in parallel
• Sub-tasks for the operations that can be done in parallel

There are some plugins that can be used in order to automatically create a set of Sub-tasks at the creation of the issue. And move automatically to the next workflow status when all Sub-tasks are closed.

Hopefully that helps, let me know should you need more details.

Cheers,

David

[Aurélie Henry]

Dear David,

This is a brilliant idea, simple and straight forward.

I should have thought about that ;)

Have a wonderful day,

Thank you very much,

Best,

Aurélie

[David Berclaz (Apwide)]

@Aurélie Henry, your're welcome!

Cheers,

David

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Hi @Aurélie Henry

I recently wrote an article about creating release templates that might answer your question. It explains how to set up a release management workflow using one of our apps Swanly. But even if you won't use the app you might find it useful. 

Link for the article 👉https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Jira-Release-Management-How-to-improve-your-release-process/ba-p/1361739

I hope that helps :)

[Yuri Kudin]

Hi @Aurélie Henry 

We have created a Release management Jira app which should cover your needs.

So you don't need to create a separate project + will get full integration with Jira native versions and their issues. 

 The add-on helps to:

• Define custom versions workflow, track current status and transition history.
• Easy to use Kanban board with all versions
• Aggregate several versions from multiple projects into complex release. Complex releases can have own workflow (for instance, you might need to do  end-to-end testing when all components  will be released)
• Manage and aggregate issues on version and complex release levels
• Bulk operations: version create, update status, archive and unarchive
• Visualize release plan on a timeline
• + gadgets, reports and other "cookies" :)   

Yuri

[yurikudin]

Hi Community,

I am proud to announce that the Release Management is available for cloud 

 In the cloud version, we have:

• Custom workflow for version and package (cross-project, multi-version entity)
• Representation of the version and packages on a timeline and as a Kanban board
• Ability to see and manage the content of each version or package 
• Automated release notes aggregator
• Set of gadgets that can help you to create informative dashboards for management

Hope you will enjoy it. As usual, your feedback is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Yuri