Drop use of term "project"

[Deleted user]

I do not want to see the word "project" being used in Jira. How can this be renamed to product or value stream or initiative or something else?

To be clear - I am not talking about renaming a project - I am talking about not having the terminology PROJECT shown anywhere in my Jira instance. I want to refer to something other than projects.

"please advise"

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not going to happen on Cloud.

On both server and cloud, you could set the system to use a different language, and you can create "language packs" that would enable you to use a different word (so you could do things like offer people the option of English, English-US, English-without-project), but you can only install those on Server.  Atlassian are not going to install a modified English pack on Cloud unless there's a very good reason for it.

What's wrong with "project"?  What would you replace it with that still suggests to an English speaker that it is a project as Jira sees them.

[Deleted user]

product or value stream or initiative or something else... I'll take banana too if it is on offer

to move away from project thinking completely

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Changing the name of something is not going to help you change the thinking or what it is. 

Even if it could help, you'd need to choose a good replacement word or phrase, and I can guarantee you that you're going to still have projects in there, and calling the "value streams" is going to be incorrect.  (Initiatives is worse, it has a specific meaning for objects that are definitely not projects).  Banana is just as useful - you're going to have projects labelled as bananas when they're not.

But, anyway, my answer still stands - can't be done on Cloud, and Atlassian are unlikely to change it until there's a lot of demand and a better word than "project".

[Deleted user]

I'd also prefer to have this configurable. We are not working on the projects in the most of software development world. But yes, it is not a huge issue.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

So what word or phrase would you use instead?

[Deleted user]

If not configurable? Hard to say, product would be confusing for some people too. Value Stream even more so.