What is a Jira space?

A Jira space is a collection of related work items that helps your team organize, track, and manage work. You can use a space to manage work for a product, project, team, or service in Jira Cloud.

What’s in a space?

A space groups work items together and provides views like boards, backlogs, and timelines to visualize and track progress. Each space has a space key (e.g., "GDT") that prefixes all its work items (GDT-1, GDT-2, etc.).

Spaces come pre-configured with work types, workflows, screens, and fields, but these can all be customized to fit your team's way of working. You can also set up components, permissions, and boards. How to create a new space.

Team-managed vs company-managed spaces

There are two ways a space can be managed.

• Team-managed: Simple to set up, controlled by individual teams, and each space's settings don't affect other spaces. Anyone can create these.

• Company-managed: Uses shared, standardized configuration set by Jira admins. Only Jira admins can create these.

Software spaces vs business spaces

There are two types of spaces in Jira.

• Software spaces: Designed for development teams. Choose from scrum, kanban, or bug tracking templates to suit your way of working. Read more about kanban vs scrum.

• Business spaces: Designed for non-technical teams (HR, marketing, finance, etc.) to track tasks, assets, approvals, and more.

Who can create a space?

• Team-managed: Anyone can create team-managed spaces, even non-admins. How to manage and configure a team-managed space.

• Company-managed: Only Jira admins can create company-managed spaces. Read more about Jira admin permissions.

What are space templates?

Jira space templates are pre-configured setups that define the structure, work types, workflows, and features of a new space. When you create a space, select a template that matches your team's way of working. Or, you can create a blank space without any pre-configuration. See what space templates are available.