Monitoring releases
Managing work across multiple projects, teams, and releases can be tricky, especially when you need to quickly check the progress of your teams.
From the releases view
You can jump to the releases view of your plan, to grab a high-level view of how work is tracking. More importantly, this will help you realistically determine if your teams can complete the work assigned to the releases in your plan.
Releases view, with sample project releases
In the example above, you can quickly see the releases that are on track and off track. You can drill down on what's blocking this release by doing any of the following:
- View the release in the roadmap of the plan, to see if there are any blockers for the pending issues.
- View the release in Jira, to see if a condensed list of all the issues assigned to that release, and possibly to change the release dates as needed.
- Hover on the status breakdown of a release, to check how many issues are still to be completed.
At the moment, the status breakdown only includes the details of the issues that are currently visible in the plan. This means that old releases may not have accurate information. We're still working on supporting this in the new experience.
From the timeline section
You can also track the progress of releases directly in the timeline section of a plan.
Sample plan with releases in the timeline
Green icons represent releases that are on track, while red ones are for releases that are off track. Click on an icon to view more details about the release, and more importantly, to determine how you can fix the state of off track releases.
The number of releases could accumulate over time, which can make it hard to navigate from one release to another on the timeline. There may be times when releases are only one day apart, or there may be multiple releases scheduled on the same day.
If this happens in your plan, try doing one of the following:
| Jumping from one release to another | Click a release icon, and then click either the left arrow or the right arrow, to jump to the next release. While jumping from one release to another, the details of each release will be displayed accordingly.
Sample multiple releases on the timeline |
| Viewing details of multiple releases | Occasionally, you may see a number above a release icon. In the sample release below, the number denotes that there are 2 releases scheduled on the same day. Click on the release icon to see the releases scheduled for that day, and then click the right arrow of each release to view more details about it.
Sample releases scheduled on the same day |
