Atlassian announced on Apr 28th, 2021 that Release Management (by Y2 ENGR) has received Atlassian Partner of the Year 2020 Best New Marketplace App for their outstanding contribution and achievements during the calendar year 2020. …

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 interpret information in…

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 their…

Jira is used by software teams during the development, testing and releasing projects. It supports the development in an Agile manner following Scrum or Kanban approach. Test management, however, is not implemented as an out of the box solution and is covered by third-party apps. …

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 environments. …

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…

Introduction I would like to write a set of articles about delivery and release management in software development using Atlassian toolset. In these articles, I want to share my experience of the delivery process organization and share a few cases of Release Management add-on (or Release management for Jira Cloud)usage…

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: Agility. Microservices enable the…