[jenkins] Conditional step/stage in Jenkins pipeline

How do you run a build step/stage only if building a specific branch?

For example, run a deployment step only if the branch is called deployment, leaving everything else the same.

Just use if and env.BRANCH_NAME, example:

    if (env.BRANCH_NAME == "deployment") {                                          
        ... do some build ...
    } else {                                   
        ... do something else ...
    }                                                                       

According to other answers I am adding the parallel stages scenario:

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('some parallel stage') {
            parallel {
                stage('parallel stage 1') {
                    when {
                      expression { ENV == "something" }
                    }
                    steps {
                        echo 'something'
                    }
                }
                stage('parallel stage 2') {
                    steps {
                        echo 'something'
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}