Next Release Ideas

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Release notes should be shared. They have essential information that team members focused on sales, marketing, customer support, and other…

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Utilizing frameworks helps reduce change failure rates, increase deployment rates, and eliminate maintenance overhead associated with…

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We recently released a dashboard showcasing your development team's performance at the organization level. The panel has its limits and…

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As we've discussed in past articles, there are four key metrics used to measure developer teams' performance: lead time to change…

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If you have our app installed in one of your Github organizations, you received a notification that Next Release has requested additional…

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The murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor is a continuation of the systemic racism and inequality that impacts our…

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Last week, we decided to implement a weekly activity email, a project that shouldn't require much drama. We just wanted to show each week…

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What is a Pull Request A pull request (PR) is a change you’re requesting to be made against a particular body of work, tending to be a…

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When I first read about Github's cli tool, my first thought was "uhh... isn't that just like...git?" But as so often happens, I was dead…

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Deployment frequency is the easiest of the four key DevOps metrics to track, and the one we started our DevOps journey off with monitoring…

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Measuring lead time for change is one of the more difficult DevOps key metrics to measure due to the infinite number of ways teams ideate…

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Who do you let merge changes into production? Are you confident enough to allow someone new add changes on their first day joining the…

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How many changes until an issue makes it through to production? It's going to happen no matter what your test coverage is or how many static…

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Taking time away from tools and automation Coming from the software engineering side before getting into DevOps, it has been an ongoing…

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Write Code, Not Reports! We shipped a number of features making it dead simple to communicate changes across every project: Custom Emails…

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Velocity - The measure of how quickly your team can build features, bugs, enhancements, or complete story points. Why is this how teams…

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Adding Autocomplete For Choice Fields Without Really Trying The Next Release backend is written with Django Rest Framework, and since we…

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Tired of Being Asked "What Shipped Last Week?" If you're tired of being asked what got shipped and when, Next Release Reports may be your…

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Informing team members or customers of upcoming changes helps to reduce the number of changes that result in your solution operating worse…

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Release orchestration is the management of releasing and deploying your software application into your non-development environments. A team…

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Welcome to the world of developer operations, a massive ecosystem of tools, processes, and ways to enhance every team across your…

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There are many benefits from maintaining a changelog, like increasing customer feedback, condensing internal update cycles, and having a…

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We help a lot of teams with their development pipelines and have seen everything from mailing code updates around in emails to advanced…

donald

We've shipped some new features to help give you more flexibility and options when creating your release notes. Include Github Issues in…

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Do you organize your work in Github issues? Do those issues better reflect what work your team ships and want to include in your release…

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If you're reading this, you're reading our newly replatformed brochure site. This is certainly not news! However, I wanted to share how this…