Yuri Kudin _Release Management_ Atlassian Partner

How a recurring diagnostic routine — checking time in status, flow metrics, and issue history across every Jira work item — became an app. Twenty years of leading delivery teams teach us a lot. We ride the waves — PMI and waterfall, then the Agile revolution, Scrum as the default starting point. The surprisingly powerful…

Atlassian Marketplace partners are moving toward a more flexible pricing future. RFC-60 opens the door to monetization models based on outputs, consumption, and other usage-linked signals, not just per-user pricing. Whether Marketplace-wide usage-based pricing becomes standard soon, the direction is clear: partners need to…

Why do we need to build a work item hierarchy in Jira? ​​ Modern systems are becoming increasingly complex every day as teams respond to growing demand and intensified competition. With the rise of AI, building sophisticated systems is no longer limited to large enterprises—today, small teams or even solopreneurs can…

In today’s fast-moving digital world, teams are juggling an ever-growing number of tasks, projects, and deadlines. Yet no matter how much work is completed, real value is only delivered at the moment of release to production. Until then, all achievements remain “on disk” — invisible and unusable for end users. This reality…

Introduction My name is Yuri, and I am the co-founder of Release Management , where we build tools for managing complex cross-project releases and supporting advanced Agile and Kanban processes. Naturally, as AI adoption accelerated across the industry, we began exploring how to implement our own AI-powered features. For a…

In this article, we explore recent trends in accelerating software development and how they apply to organizations of various sizes. We also examine the specific requirements enterprises place on the release management process, and how Continuous Delivery can be adapted to meet these demands. Additionally, we outline a…

Article Content In this article, we will share why we decided to join the Early Access Program (EAP) for Apps Editions with Atlassian, how we launched the first versions of our Apps’ Advanced Editions, and what the journey ahead looks like. Why consider it? As with any other app on the Atlassian Marketplace, we grow mostly…

Introduction Powering - more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies list Atlassian Jira (Jira) has become a golden standard for software teams globally to plan, develop, test and release software products. From its earliest days Jira focused on the development phase to introduce Agile and Lean principles and practices into…

Introduction In this article, we share our experience in controlling churn for our Atlassian Apps, which has fueled organic growth and established a stronger foundation for increased marketing spend. While the problem statement and suggestions may apply to any SaaS business, we focus on specifics relevant to the Atlassian…

In the fast-paced world of project or product management, the efficiency of execution is key. Every minute saved and every bottleneck avoided can mean the difference between success and stagnation. For those who have embraced Advanced Kanban boards, the journey has been one of streamlined workflows and enhanced visibility…

Introduction In this article, I will outline why focusing on time to market is essential for software development companies. I will focus primarily on Kanban and limiting work in progress (WIP) as quick gains in optimizing your time to market. I will also cover different levels of Kanban maturity in order to shed light on…

In this article we will discuss how microservices and micro-frontends architecture empowers teams to deliver more frequently and independently to production. And when established product-centric roadmaps aren't good enough to answer the question “When will it be delivered?“ We will also outline why delivery-centric…

Why microservices? Microservices architecture is not a new technology on the market. No doubt you have already heard about it, or perhaps, your company even has already adopted it. Such a massive migration from monolithic architecture to microservices is based on the clear and powerful advantages of microservices: *…

Applying Trello magic to Jira projects Introduction Lately, I have been writing a lot about Release Management (e.g. a few of my previous articles- One, Two and Three). Today, I would like to share some thoughts on a different topic, namely “(the)balance between simplicity and complexity and how to combine them in order to…

Introduction In the previous article I already mentioned that modern IT solutions comprise of multiple tiers of components and/or micro-services. This brings a lot of benefits from both a business and a technological point of view, but at the same time can be a real headache for project and delivery managers to…

Introduction In this article we describe the complexity of managing release cycles of complex IT solutions that comprise of a number of Apps, Service and/or Microservices. In particular, we will touch base on release management of such solutions across multiple development, integration and Geo-distributed production…

Introduction I would like to write a set of articles about delivery and release management in software development. In these articles, I want to share my experience of the delivery process organization and share a few cases of Release Management add-on / Release management for Jira Cloud usage. After years working within…