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Jira products comes with many different project templates created to suit your team's needs and workflow. For example, you can create projects optimized for tracking simple, straightforward tasks for marketing, legal, HR or other business teams

Only Jira admins can create new projects.

To create a project:

  1. Select Projects > Create project in the navigation.
  2. Under project templates, templates are grouped into a library of use-case based categories. Under Products, templates are grouped by Jira Cloud products. Choose a category or product.
  3. Learn more about the available templates and select a template.
  4. View the detailed information on the template and choose Use template.
  5. Give your project a name. You can change your service project template by selecting Change template.

  6. Choose who can access your project and the default language of the project.

  7. Select Create.

We automatically generate a project key when the project is created. Whoever created the project is set as the project lead by default.

To change these details:

  1. From your project's sidebar, select Project settings.
  2. Select Details.

We remember which template you choose and use that as the default whenever you create a project.

Create a project that shares its configuration with another project

Only Jira admins can create projects with a shared configuration. The shared configuration setting isn't available on Free plan.

Projects that share configuration share:

  • issue types
  • workflows
  • screens
  • fields
  • permissions
  • notifications
  • and more

If a change is made to one of the projects' configurations, that change affects all the projects that share that configuration.

To create a project with a shared configuration:

  1. Select Projects > Create project in the navigation.
  2. Under project templates, templates are grouped into a series of use-case based categories. Under Products, templates are grouped by Jira Cloud products. Choose a category or product.
  3. Learn more about the available templates and select a template.
  4. View the detailed information on the template and choose Use template.
  5. Choose project type: Company-managed.
  6. Give your project a name.
  7. Tick the Share settings with an existing project checkbox.
  8. Use the Choose project dropdown to select the project from which you want your new project to share its configuration.
  9. Select Create.