We’re updating our terminology in Jira

The term ‘project’ will soon be replaced with 'space'. You may notice some inconsistencies while we make this change.

What are Compass components?

Currently, you can only use Compass components in company-managed, software spaces. They are unavailable for business and service spaces, and all team-managed spaces. Because they’re cataloged in Compass, they can be used across multiple spaces.

A Compass component represents a piece of software, like a microservice, library, or app. Together, they make up your software architecture, and are cataloged in Compass, a developer experience platform.

Compass components include information about who owns it, how to interact with it, how it’s performing, and it dependence on other components in your software architecture.

So, by grouping work items around pieces of software (Compass components), teams can understand the status and impact of their work on their wider software architecture, and surface information to move that work forward.

Once Compass has been added to your site, anyone on that site can configure Compass components and link work items to them.

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