Release management

Question

Hi,

We have one of the team requirement.

We need Release Kanban Board to achieve structured way of release management for our application.

Under multiple testing environments, current release module does not show full pictures which release is fully ready for production. Products need to closely collaborate to make sure seamless experiences.

Can this be achievable within Jira or we need to go for any app?

Regards,

Suma

Pramodh M · Accepted Answer

Hi @Suma Kustagi

Yes, it is manageable.

You could track this via the Issue life cycle (workflow) to perform the navigation through different environments and finally to the production environment.

Once you have defined the workflow, the statuses should be mapped to a Kanban board with proper columns.

You could also track this via a custom field with the name environment and add the different environment values you may have.

Once you have added the field, you can create the swimlane (JQL) and divide them via different environments.

Let me know your views on this!

Thanks,
Pramodh

Danut M _StonikByte_ · Accepted Answer

Hi @Suma Kustagi,

Take also a look over these articles on how to create powerful dashboards for your Kanban team, as well as for the global release.

* https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Building-a-powerful-Kanban-dashboard-in-Jira-with-Great-Gadgets/ba-p/1664331 
* https://community.atlassian.com/t5/App-Central/How-to-track-scaled-agile-SAFe-projects-in-Jira-with-Great/ba-p/1929694

Hope this helps.

Disclosure: The Great Gadgets app used in these articles is developed by my team.

Danut

Yuri Lapin _Release Management_ · Accepted Answer

Hi @Suma Kustagi

Trust you are well.

If you are up to Partner Apps we would also suggest to look at Release Management App . We have a flexible Release Kanban Board, but also Roadmap, Calendar and List view.

Try it out!

Cheers,

Yuri.