Rolling back to 1.5.6 resolved the issue:

Error:
Jun 22, 2017 1:57:40 PM WARNING se.diabol.jenkins.pipeline.DeliveryPipelineView triggerManual
Could not trigger manual build analytics-promote-to-qa for upstream analytics-acceptance-teardown-test-env id: 320

java.lang.NullPointerException

     at au.com.centrumsystems.hudson.plugin.buildpipeline.BuildPipelineView.triggerManualBuild(BuildPipelineView.java:457)

     at se.diabol.jenkins.pipeline.trigger.BPPManualTrigger.triggerManual(BPPManualTrigger.java:35)

Caused: se.diabol.jenkins.pipeline.trigger.TriggerException: Could not trigger

    at se.diabol.jenkins.pipeline.trigger.BPPManualTrigger.triggerManual(BPPManualTrigger.java:38)

    at se.diabol.jenkins.pipeline.DeliveryPipelineView.triggerManual(DeliveryPipelineView.java:451)

    at se.diabol.jenkins.pipeline.PipelineApi.doManualStep(PipelineApi.java:52)

    at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:627)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:343)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:184)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:117)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:129)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$3.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:209)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:248)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649)

at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1669) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:135) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.ssegateway.Endpoint$SSEListenChannelFilter.doFilter(Endpoint.java:225) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at io.jenkins.blueocean.auth.jwt.impl.JwtAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(JwtAuthenticationFilter.java:51) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at io.jenkins.blueocean.ResourceCacheControl.doFilter(ResourceCacheControl.java:134) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at jenkins.metrics.impl.MetricsFilter.doFilter(MetricsFilter.java:125) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84) at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249) at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76) at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:585) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:553) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544) at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)