You’ve just come to the end of your sprint and it’s time to ship a new release to the QA environment for testing. But what about the release notes? In this post I’ll share some tips on creating useful release notes your team and customer will actually read and use. I explain why they are important and how they can help ensure a smoother release through to production.

Why do we create release notes?

Release notes are a way to convey to the business as well as the QA team what changes are included in the upcoming release. They are usually generated by Dev Team Lead as he/she is the gatekeeper for dev and responsible for what is allowed to leave development and go to higher environments.

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