Represent your organization's hierarchy with teams

Representing your organization’s structure in Atlassian makes it easier to manage teams, clarify reporting lines, and support cross-team collaboration. To do so, you can set parent and sub-team relationships between each team and mirror your real-world team hierarchy.

Hierarchy rules:

  • A parent team can have up to 25 sub-teams.

  • Each team can only have one parent.

  • A team can’t end up being its own parent or sub-team, directly or indirectly.

Set a parent or sub-team for a team

Anyone with edit permission for a team can set parent and sub-team relationships for that team.

To set a parent or sub-team relationship for a team:

  1. Go to the team’s profile page.

  2. In the Details section, select the Parent team or Sub-teams fields.

  3. Select the appropriate parent or sub-team from the dropdown menu.

Tip: Once your organization’s structure is set up, you can filter by larger teams and their sub-teams in Atlassian Analytics.

Remove a parent or sub-team from a team

Anyone with edit permission for a team can remove parent and sub-team relationships from that team.

To remove a parent or sub-team relationship from a team:

  1. Go to the team’s profile page.

  2. In the Details section, select the Parent team field.

  3. Select Remove linked team.

To remove a sub-team relationship from a team:

  1. Go to the team’s profile page.

  2. In the Details section, select the Sub-teams field.

  3. Uncheck the sub-teams you want to remove.

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