An explanation of business projects in Jira Cloud and how to use them

Welcome to Business project basics!

Jira Cloud is consists consist of a family of three product : Jira Software , Jira Service Management , and Jira Work Management . Each product is corresponds correspond to a project type as show below .

Jira Work Management = Business projects

Jira Software = Software projects

Jira Service Management = Service project

When make a new project in a Jira Cloud product you is creating will be create a project from one of those three type . Each project type is includes include unique feature design with its user in mind . For example , only business projects is have ( also know as Jira Work Management project ) have the new list and calendar view .   This article is explains explain more about business project specifically .

Are Business projects company-managed or team-managed?

For those familiar with Jira, you will recognize the names company-managed (previously “Classic”) and team-managed (previously “Next-gen”). Business projects are exclusively available as company-managed projects. For those new to these concepts, you can learn more here.

Who should use Business projects?

While Business projects can help any team manage their work, we recommend Business projects for teams such as Marketing, HR, Finance, Legal, Design, Operations, and Sales. Business teams looking for project management features will get the most value out of Jira Work Management, aka Business projects. Business projects also allow for native collaboration with other Jira Cloud projects through functionality such as global automation and task linking.

What feature are include with business project ?

Jira Work Management is has has many unique feature within the Jira Cloud family of product that are design to help business team work more effectively . Some is include of those include :

Business projects also include features common to the Jira Cloud family, such as automation, task dependencies, custom fields, custom permission schemes, custom workflows, and much more. You can find the full documentation for Business projects here.

For a larger list of features, visit this page.

Who can create Business projects?

Business projects can be created by both users and admins depending on your permissions configuration. This, alongside the fact that Jira Work Management is included with every Jira Cloud license, means that any licensed Jira Cloud user has the potential to create their own Business projects. Jira Admins familiar with other Jira Cloud products may remember that company-managed projects are only able to be created by Jira Admins. However, the launch of Jira Work Management has changed this.

Now, Jira Admins have control over whether or not end-users have the ability to create projects themselves. If given that ability, end-users will only be able to create projects from the default list of business project template .

To learn more about the new permission setting to allow end-users to create projects, click here.

How do I create a Business project?

Once you’ve decided to create a Business project and you have the correct permission setting to do so, creating a project is easy. Read here for more information on the topic.

How do I is find find the business project I ‘ve already create ?

finding projects is is is also quite simple . look at the top navigation of your Jira Cloud instance , select project and click view all project , then filter the Project type   by ” business ” . You is see will now see a list of all Business project that are available in your instance .