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AI helps product teams ship faster. Use customer evidence, clearer decisions and release follow-through to turn that speed into value customers can use.
Show Jira Service Management SLAs on BetterBoard cards, find requests nearing a breach, and highlight missed goals on the full board.
Compare six Canny alternatives for Jira teams by feedback workflow, Jira connection, pricing, and the work involved in switching.
Collect customer feedback with Released Hub, connect conversations to Jira work and keep customers in the loop. See when a form, collector or service portal fits instead.
Learn what a product roadmap should communicate, choose a format for your audience, and turn product goals into a plan with worked examples.
Compare Jira Product Discovery, Released Hub, Productboard, Aha!, ProductPlan, and lightweight roadmap tools by the work your team needs them to support.
Compare customer feedback tools that connect requests, product decisions, and delivery work in Jira. Find the best fit for Jira-native workflows, public voting, product operations, and enterprise feedback.
Compare Jira apps that turn shipped work into release notes. See which tools generate drafts, support review, publish customer updates, and keep release communication connected to Jira.
Compare changelog tools for Jira automation, in-app announcements, customer feedback, widgets, and lightweight product updates.
Choose the right format for product updates, from a concise changelog entry to a customer-ready feature announcement, rollout notice, or major launch story.
Master stakeholder communication with the AAI framework, dynamic roadmaps, and narrative reporting. Reduce communication debt, charge the trust battery, and ship outcomes.
Use Jira Assets on BetterBoard cards to inspect linked assets, filter work by asset attributes and highlight high-risk Jira issues without JQL or AQL.
Use Elements Connect to bring CRM data into Jira custom fields, then display, filter, and group it in BetterBoard.
A build-time pattern for surfacing Released updates inside a Forge app without adding runtime egress or another manual release task.
Slack is great for capturing feedback. Less great for keeping it.
We've been building for this.
Four ways PMs can use agents today
Everything you need to know
How we keep our product roadmap simple, public, and useful
Turn Slack conversations into organized feedback connected to Jira work.
Keep your teams aligned with real-time product updates
Learn how to customize Jira Product Discovery fields with Triage, Goals, Insights, and Confidence Score to build a workflow that actually fits your team.
Learn how to automatically generate customer-facing product descriptions in Jira using Atlassian Rovo AI agents and Jira Automation — with step-by-step setup instructions.
Automating stakeholder visibility by bridging the gap between engineering execution and strategic intent.
Deciding between Jira Product Discovery and Productboard? Compare a Jira-first planning stack with a standalone product-operations system, and see how Released Hub adds customer feedback, public roadmaps, and release notes.
Productboard's Jira integration is capable. Learn when its mapping and sync controls are worth the work, and when a Jira-first communication layer is the simpler choice.
Master Jira Product Discovery (JPD) customization for Product Ops. Learn to build advanced taxonomies, RICE formulas, and global fields for strategic alignment.
Discover how to manage JPD technical limits, from the 10,000-insight cap to formula automation gaps, and how to scale your product discovery with Released.so.
Learn whether your team needs Jira Product Discovery Premium. Compare pricing and features like cross-project roadmaps and hierarchies, plus see how Released creates a closed-loop system for customer feedback.
Struggling with the "Blank Slate" problem in Jira Product Discovery? Follow this 5-step guide to architect your JPD setup, master prioritization, and bridge the gap between discovery and release.
Ready to ditch spreadsheets? Our guide covers the key methods, challenges, and tools for a successful spreadsheets to Jira Product Discovery migration.
Choosing between Jira Product Discovery vs Jira (formerly Jira Software)? This guide compares their core purpose, key features, pricing, and how they work together.
Make updates easy with Sync for Confluence
Is Jira Product Discovery worth it? We review the top 10 features, from roadmaps to prioritization, to see if it can truly fix your product discovery process.
A practical Jira Product Discovery views guide. Learn how to use list, matrix, board, and timeline views to align executives, PMs, and engineers from a single source of truth.
Learn to publish Jira Product Discovery roadmaps with this detailed guide. Covers native JPD methods & the Released app for clear stakeholder communication.
(and lived to tell the tale)
Stop Presenting. Start Writing.
The Art of the Silent Update
Long live seat pricing.
Learn how feedback debt forms, why it hurts product teams, and how tools like Jira Product Discovery and Released help centralize feedback, connect it to work, and close the loop with customers. A practical guide for product managers looking to build trust and improve prioritization.
Learn how to structure ideas in Jira Product Discovery using Themes, Opportunities, and Features. Prioritize with Impact and Confidence, build hierarchical roadmaps, and leverage Released to share Roadmaps and collect real-time feedback.
Don’t just build what’s popular. Build what moves you forward. A practical guide to turning feedback into focus.
A Better Way to Handle Customer Feedback
And how to make it useful again
And How Wishlists Fix It
The best Cycle alternatives for Jira teams
Your customer feedback, connected directly to Jira.
A memo on building products that matter
Run your beta program with Jira and Released. Share your roadmap, collect feedback, and keep everything connected.
7 Sample Breakdowns for 2025
Why Most Stakeholder Communication Falls Flat
2025 Guide
A Complete Guide to Fueling Growth
Learn how to build a clear, communicative Now, Next, Later roadmap in Jira Product Discovery, without overplanning or clutter. Perfect for sharing product priorities with stakeholders and customers.
LLMs.txt Explained
A step-by-step guide to setting up RICE scoring in Jira Product Discovery for effective prioritization.
(and How to Use Them)
Which Product Roadmap Format Is Better?
Share selected Jira work through a public roadmap, control what customers see, and keep updates manageable without maintaining a separate website.
Transform your approach to product development. This guide emphasizes that successful product teams focus on delivering meaningful outcomes rather than just shipping features. By leveraging insights from building Jira Product Discovery and collaborating with numerous product teams, Atlassian provides essential strategies for effective discovery and prioritization.
Shift the conversation from timelines to impact—learn how to tailor roadmaps for every stakeholder.
Leverage Jira automation to make more information available in your release notes.
Discover the key differences between Epics and Ideas in Jira and Jira Product Discovery. Learn how to effectively manage and link them to enhance your product development process, ensuring that valuable ideas are transformed into actionable tasks. Explore tips for validation, collaboration, and tracking progress for successful outcomes.
A Practical Guide to Understanding Your Customers
A Comprehensive Guide
Learn how to make tables in your Jira descriptions part of your release notes.
A guide on when to use action items vs subtasks
A Technical Guide to Implementing a Changelog With Dark Mode Support
How We Use the Product Hub to Run Our Beta Program Communication
Generate consistent release notes in seconds
Released is Soaring on the Atlassian Marketplace!
What are the differences?
Create a useful Jira product roadmap in seven steps. Choose the right view, structure the work, tailor fields, and share it with stakeholders.
Which One is Right for You?
Aligning Product Strategy with Business Objectives
To keep customers and stakeholders in the loop
From in product notifications to integrating release notes in their help center.
Learn from our experience launching an Atlassian Marketplace app on Product Hunt
Learn how to easily share your public Jira roadmaps with Released. Simplify communication, keep roadmaps in sync, and ensure your customers stay informed with up-to-date plans.
Jira and Confluence Top the list of most used asynchronous tools
Does AI impact how developers work?
Easily create cross-project roadmaps in Jira, and share them with your teams or customers.
Create Slack style release notes in a single click
With the all new AI settings
Our journey towards SOC2 compliance
Using Jira Product Discovery
Automate roadmap sharing while keeping full control
Which ones is right for you?
How Confluence's open-by-default approach transforms organizations
How better customer communication could have saved the company a lot of headaches
There’s an agent for that...
Marketplace Partner Collaboration
All the highlights from Atlassian's annual conference.
The tips also apply if you aren't building an Atlassian app.
What we built, and what we didn't.
Better communicate with stakeholders and customers.
These are the apps we use every week.
At least not in the early days of a startup
A peak behind the scenes on how we designed one of our most popular features.
3 examples of great feature brands.
Get the output you want to craft awesome release notes
How to leverage product updates to drive leads
A step by step guide on how to automate product updates
Unless you are OpenAI or Google, AI will not differentiate your product in the long run.
Our story of starting Released
And how that decision turbo-charged our development
And How to Optimize Feedback
And 5 mistakes to avoid
And best practices for when you do
How to not hide core features from your customers
Best practices and examples of companies doing it well.
Take internal communication to the next level.
Boost internal alignment by sharing product release notes with your team.
A practical Jira release-notes workflow: select shipped work, turn it into a customer-ready draft, review it, and publish it for customers and stakeholders.
It's easier than you think
And you should too.
Look beyond Beamer
Friends don't let friends use feedback boards
Add release notes to your Framer site in less than 5 minutes.
Best practices for writing release notes plus templates and examples.
A quick video tutorial on how to add release notes to your Webflow site in 90 seconds.
In this guide you will learn how to create compelling demo data for your Jira instance.
Categorizing your release notes takes effort, but it's worth it for your users.
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Plus 5 Great Examples For Inspiration
Copy a release notes template, download it for Word or Markdown, and see how to turn shipped work into a clear customer update.
5 great examples to get you started
The Customer Feedback Engine
A Complete Guide to Fueling Growth