Software development teams spend a lot of time planning & developing their product features but somehow miss out on importance of release communication. If your team is already using Jira, then Automated release notes (ARN) makes your release notes generation & communication process a breeze.
4. Tedious & Inaccurate exercise
◂ Writing & communicating release notes is
a tedious exercise.
◂ Usually release notes are needed in
different formats, for different audience.
◂ E.g. Business team may want a document
that mainly gives them an executive
summary, whereas a sales rep will only
like to know about the ‘hot features’. 4
5. Tedious & Inaccurate exercise
◂ Figure out which issues are included in
the release
◂ Who are the relevant recipients, not
everyone needs to know about every
release item
◂ Send emails (internal & external), publish
to Confluence
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6. Why not save
some time?
& build a versatile release notes
generator
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7. ARN for all stakeholders
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Customer facing
Customers & customer facing
teams can be kept informed
about upcoming/recent
changes to the product.
Again, use the data selectively.
Individual Contributors
Makes the process of internal
quality assurance &
development more efficient.
No manual intervention
required, once set up.
Managers & Executives
Stakeholders who just need an
overview, get exactly that via
different templates.
Use power of JQL.
9. Use Cases...
◂ Inform internal players when the next
release is due based on ‘scheduled’
triggers
◂ Keep customers engaged via ‘featured’
updates
◂ Generating release notes on demand
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10. Use Cases
◂ Automatically trigger rules when a
version is released in Jira
◂ Trigger rules from other DevOps tools via
webhooks
◂ Automatically publish release notes to
Confluence
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11. Use Cases
◂ Generate release notes from multiple
projects in Jira
◂ POST release notes in HTML & JSON
formats to pre-defined urls
◂ Send release notes directly to your web
applications via widgets
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12. Use Cases
◂ Send release notes directly to a channel in
Slack or MS teams
◂ Store release notes in PDF format directly
to your Box, Dropbox accounts
◂ Generate other reports exploiting the
flexibility of the app
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15. Credits
Special thanks to all the people who
made and released these awesome
resources for free:
◂ Presentation template by
SlidesCarnival
◂ Photographs by Unsplash
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