Manage Roadmap and Release

Question

Objective : I want to streamline the flow for the deployment and releases in every sprint we are completing for now i am managing release using the user story which is very confusing and not able to maintain EPIC and not able to track all the user stories are completed or not and it get me trouble during the discussing with the higher management.

Problem Statement : As a project manager i want to create a hierarchy where i can manage release using the EPIC and track all the issues from there can someone please suggest me how i can do this and make my JIRA visually look good for now it is just mess nothing else

Yuri Lapin _Release Management_ · Answer

Hi @Akash Kumar

Trust you are well.

The standard approach for Release Management in Jira is use Fix Version as outlined by @Antuan Sammak . The limitation is bound to specific Jira Project.

The use case of using Epics for releases is understood and actually a number of companies are doing the same. Epic you can share cross projects and package your stories to release. The drawback is segregating Epic as Epic (from Product perspective) and Epic as Release (from Delivery / Engineering perspective). But I presume you have a solution to it?

If you are up to Partner Apps we would also suggest to look at Release Management App . We have a flexible Release Taxonomy when you can use classic Fix versions, convert Sprint into Release, Convert Epic into Release or define Release via custom JQL.

Once you define it you can control the Scope (in your case Stories includes and not only) to have ultimate visibility of thee progress and status.

Hope this help.

Good luck!

Yuri.

Antuan Sammak · Answer

Hi @Akash Kumar

I have came across similar situation earlier, the way i looked at it is to group the Epic and corresponding tasks under one release version then run some of the existing reports in Jira based on Fix Version.

another option, you might want to give a try our new application it offers a new approach of reporting that shall help your organization and teams to analyze teams performance and identify potential improvements.

Regards,