A common question that seems to get asked of product teams, especially in early & growth stage startups is: "when is <insert feature> shipping?" or "did <...> already ship?". A similar thing that happens is non-prod/eng teams not being aware that a thing they were waiting on is already shipped.<p>I know many of you will say this is a communication problem and not a tools problem. While that's largely true, I believe that tools can make this better visible.<p>I have an idea for a tool that connects the dev team's code repos to the project tool they use and in a neat dashboard answer the above questions. I also have ideas for how to abstract one level up from just tickets.<p>I need help understanding if I'm thinking of a solution looking for a problem or if something like this could actually help deliver value to some stakeholders -- especially non-prod/eng folks in a company, execs, and possibly even customers.
Release Notes?<p>VSCode is a good example. After the latest updates, the <i>Recent Changes</i> are surfaced when we open the editor.<p>That combined with a <i>What's New?</i> link should answer this question any time.<p>If the issue is customer/end-user view versus internal view of changes, you could put them in a separate section of the <i>Recent Changes</i> release note.<p>For status tracking in the pre-release/dev/testing stages (for eg., to answer your <i>when is featureX shipping?</i> question, wouldn't something like GitHub tags suffice?