Create and edit team-managed projects
Learn how to find out if you can create your own project, then get going with these instructions.
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Manage and administer team-managed projects
This page is for team-managed projects
To check whether your project is team-managed or company-managed, select more actions (•••) next to the project name in either the header or the sidebar. At the bottom of the menu that opens, you’ll be able to view whether your project is team-managed or company-managed.
If you're in a company-managed project, check out these company-managed project articles instead.
More about the difference between company-managed and team-managed projects.
By default, anyone with product access to Jira can create a team-managed software project. Unlike company-managed projects, team-managed projects don't share their configuration with any other project on your Jira site. You can make updates without affecting other software projects on your Jira site.
With team-managed software projects, anyone can manage their own work, their team’s work, and their working processes, without having to reach out to a Jira admin for help.
Jira administrators can control who's allowed to create a team-managed project in their global permissions settings. More about global permissions.
If you want to migrate an existing company-managed project to a team-managed project, or the other way around, check out our tutorial on converting a project to a different template or type.
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Here’s what’s different in your team-managed project:
Work types. You can define your team’s work by creating work types unique to your team’s working process. These work types have their own workflows, which are unique to your project. You can quickly update or change the fields your team uses to describe each type of work.
Fields. Fields you create for your work types are available to every work type in your project. They’re unique to your project only. You can still use them to filter for work item across your Jira site or in dashboard gadgets. But, they belong solely to your project.
Access and permissions. Team-managed projects prioritize access based on project roles that are unique to your project. You can assign individual people and groups to roles in your project to control their access.
Features. You can experiment with different working styles by enabling and disabling agile features, like backlogs, sprints, estimations, or releases and versions. Use as many as your team needs, whenever they need them, and turn off the rest to help you focus. Turn on or off certain features directly by adding or removing them from your project navigation, or from your project settings.
Add people to team-managed projects
Find out how to add or remove the people who work on or view your project's issues.
Manage how people access your team-managed project
Change your project's access level, create your own roles, and change the permissions a role has in your team-managed project.
Team-managed project permissions
Learn about the three main settings that determine a person's permissions in team-managed projects, and more.
Set up issue types in team-managed projects
Learn how to create, edit, and delete issue types in team-managed projects.
Customize an issue's fields in team-managed projects
Customize team-managed issue types to show different fields and collect the information your team needs.
Available custom fields for team-managed projects
Read about the different types of fields you can customize in team-managed project's work types.
Manage epics in team-managed projects
Create and edit epics, and add issues to them in team-managed projects.
Manage subtasks in team-managed projects
Create a subtask in team-managed projects to break down work into smaller, more manageable pieces.
Manage custom filters in team-managed projects
Use custom filters in team-managed projects to quickly find work items in your board and backlog.
Add rules to your team-managed board
Learn how to add and delete a rule from your team-managed board to streamline your team's processes.
Team-managed board rules
Get detailed descriptions of the rules you can add to your team-managed board.
Add people to Jira from Google, Slack, or Microsoft
Add anyone to Jira from Google, Slack, or Microsoft (or all three). It’s quick, convenient, and secure.
Customize notifications in team-managed projects
Project admins can configure and customize email notifications on issue-related changes.
Connect your team-managed board with Bitbucket
Link your Bitbucket repository with your team-managed software project to see developer status on the board.
Manage Atlassian Marketplace apps in team-managed projects
Learn how to view and manage apps that integrate with your team-managed projects.
Delete a team-managed project
Understand when and how to move a project to trash, or permanently delete it.
Issue limits in team-managed projects
How the board, backlog, sprints, and timeline are impacted by issue limits.
Restrict access to an issue type
Learn more about restricting access to an issue type in a team-managed project.
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