Discussions
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CI/CD is not release management
There's a complaint I keep running into in DevOps threads, usually from someone who has just cleaned up after a bad release. The team treated its CI/CD pipeline as its release process, and it turned out the pipeline couldn't carry that weight. I'm not an engineer, and I won't pretend to know your pipeline better than you…
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What does a release manager actually do?
A while ago I came across a question on the Atlassian Community that I keep thinking about. Someone had been offered a release manager role and asked, more or less: what is this job, and should I take it? The advice they'd already collected from friends, mostly project managers, wasn't encouraging. Release management was…
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The Connect Sunset Is Six Months Away. Is Your App Portfolio Ready?
When did you last check whether your Marketplace apps are Forge-ready? If the answer is “not recently” or “never,” this post is for you. Full disclosure: I work for Release Management Apps, the team behind Release Management for Jira. We completed our own Forge migration in March 2026, and the process taught us a lot…
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Jira versions stop at the project boundary. Releases don't.
Part of my job is keeping an eye on where Jira users actually get stuck. Not a survey, not a study. A running log of what shows up in the Atlassian Community digest and in the Reddit and forum threads I get alerted on. I do it because I work in the Marketplace and I would rather know what people struggle with than assume…
