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One release for several projects

Yuliia Zhyliaieva
Contributor
September 9, 2020

Hi!

I have two teams working in two projects - thus, they have different releases and fixversions. They work on the same product.

Is there a way to have a shared release for two teams, with one release button to click?

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Darrel Jackson
Contributor
September 10, 2020

One approach is to have them work in the same project. Then if you need to assign issues to one team or another you create a custom field with a team name drop down. You essentially virtualise the project for two teams.

The downsides:

  • The project configuration is shared between the two teams so they need to follow the same workflows, issues types, screens...
  • Maintaining the team assignment per issue is admin overhead
  • The teams share the same sprint (unless you use paralle sprints - which has its own downsides) which means same start and end time and shared sprint reports. burndown charts etc.

The other approach is you put the issues and releases in a single project and the teams in different projects then those projects use a board that takes issues from the first project. I've never used this approach so not sure if it's feasible but it will be confusing (e.g. teams working in a project will accidentally search their own project for issues and won't find any).

Yuliia Zhyliaieva
Contributor
September 11, 2020

Yep, I agree, these both approaches have huge downsides for me. Do you probably know any addon I could use?

Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_
Community Champion
September 19, 2020

Hi @Yuliia Zhyliaieva ,

there is an addon you could use 🎉 Here is an article I wrote that describes it's functionality 👉 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-to-share-releases-between-projects-with-Cross-project/ba-p/1354688

Let me know if that's useful :)

Nikki

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Dibyandu Roy
Contributor
September 10, 2020
Darrel Jackson
Contributor
September 10, 2020

Worth pointing out you need Jira Premium to use the Advanced Roadmaps function. In Jira Standard it's not available.

Yuliia Zhyliaieva
Contributor
September 11, 2020

Thanks for the answer!

However, it does not seem to be meeting my needs. Please see the screen below: I created a shared release, but I cannot release it directly from the plan. I still need to go to separate projects, and release separate versionsUntitled.png

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