What you'll accomplish
By the end of this guide, you'll have a repeatable workflow that converts your sprint's JIRA tickets into polished, customer-facing release notes in under 20 minutes — replacing a 2-hour manual process.
What you'll need
- Claude.ai account (free tier works)
- Access to JIRA (or your issue tracker) to export sprint tickets
- A release notes template or format your team uses (you'll codify this into a Claude prompt)
- Time needed: 20-30 minutes to set up; 15-20 minutes per release cycle
- Cost: Free (Claude free tier is sufficient)
How-To Guide: Building a Fast Release Notes Workflow with Claude
Step 1: Export your sprint tickets
You need the tickets in text form — not screenshots.
From JIRA:
- Go to your sprint board
- Filter by "Done" (or your completed status)
- Export to CSV: click the "..." menu → Export → Export to CSV
- Open the CSV; you need the Summary and Description columns
Alternatively: Select all completed ticket titles in the sprint view, copy them, and paste as plain text.
Quick method: Run the JIRA query project = YOUR_PROJECT AND sprint = [sprint name] AND status = Done in JIRA Issues and copy the ticket list from the results.
What you should see: A list of 10-40 ticket titles and descriptions that represent your sprint's completed work. Troubleshooting: If tickets have too much technical jargon, that's fine — Claude is good at translating developer-speak.