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Setup release synchronization for Team managed Jira project - NextGen
Setup release synchronization for Team managed Jira project - NextGen

Learn how to enable release synchronization for Team managed Jira project

Tamás Párványik avatar
Written by Tamás Párványik
Updated over 8 months ago

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Release synchronization overview

StoriesOnBoard supports release synchronization with your Jira project. Setting up release synchronization with Jira will help you to eliminate manual work. You will be able to create a release on the story map itself as you are planning your product backlog and organizing user stories on the board. The created release will be also automatically be created on the Jira side as well to make things easier.

In case you already created a release in Jira, you can also perform a sync action and the release with all its content will be imported into the story map.

Release management

Software release management is the process of managing, planning, scheduling a software built and precisely controlled through various stages and environments. This also includes testing and deployment processes.

Delivering a new release means you deliver a new product experience in a form of a new feature to your customers for instance. The release should deliver sufficient value that should improve the end users capability to create additional value or improve their lives in any ways.

For your product team, however, a release is the result of their perfectly structured and delivered plan they aligned their activities with.


Who can setup release synchronization

Subscription Admin and Admin can initiate the setup of release synchronization. You also need the necessary rights on the Jira side to access and make modification in the project settings of the project.

How to setup release sync for Team managed Jira project

  1. Open your Jira project

  2. Visit "Project settings"

  3. Select "Features"

  4. Find the "Development" section and enable "Releases"

  5. Open the story map

  6. Visit "Settings"

  7. Select "Integration settings"

  8. Select the "General settings tab"

  9. Enable the "Synchronize releases" option

  10. Hit "Save changes"

💡 Tip - In case you see the "Synchronize releases" unavailable even after that you enabled this option in Jira, please refresh the page. This will allow you to update your settings and enable release synchronization.

Step-by-step guide to setup release sync for Team managed Jira project

Open the Jira project that you linked to your story map. Then visit "Project settings".

Then select "Features" and look out for "Development" and enable the "Releases" option.

Open the story map you linked to the Jira project and visit "Settings" and select "Integration settings".

Enable the "Synchronize releases" option and hit "Save changes".


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