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Evolving Jira terminology: ‘Projects’ will soon be ‘Spaces’

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Josh
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June 23, 2025

@Bill Sheboy this just in - Atlassian Decoder Ring will now be renamed Translation Table to be more accessible to teams of all types. :-P

Jokes aside, I like the change assuming that Atlassian preserves our JQL, automation rules, etc. and does provide some sort of way to easily understand the before and after terminology.

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Mathew Lederman
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June 23, 2025

Is there a summary of all the name changes going on somewhere? 

  • Jira Issues > Work Items
  • Products > Apps
  • Plug-Ins/Apps/Add-Ons > ?
  • Projects > Spaces
  • Any others that I'm missing?

And when do all of these changes start impacting our end users? As some others mentioned, when will the projects terminology in JQL change over to spaces?

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Rohitha Devi Pullepu
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June 23, 2025

This is a significant shift, and it's great to see Atlassian working to create a more unified and intuitive experience across products. That said, since "spaces" already have a strong association with Confluence, I’m curious how this change will impact user training and cross-product understanding.

Will there be clear visual labels to help users differentiate between Jira "Spaces" and Confluence "Spaces"? Looking forward to seeing how this evolves!

Dave Liao
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June 23, 2025

For the record, I like this change, as I've had customers refer to Jira projects as Jira spaces (at multiple companies, with no rhyme or reason).

If such a change makes spaces a literal space for work (items) and pages, this should reduce the cognitive load for our users. And since there are usually more users than admins, I support this change. 😉 

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David Friedrich
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June 23, 2025

We've survived "issue" to "work item" so far, we'll get through this one too.

Personally, I think this change actually makes more sense.
Now I'm curious... what's the next big "change"? Anyone taking bets?

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James Rickards (SN)
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June 23, 2025

I honestly don't care how much re-work this is going to cost me in updating automations, filters, dashboards, and documentation if it means I don't need to explain the difference between Project and Project yet another time!

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__ Jimi Wikman
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June 23, 2025

@David Friedrich Next up would be to align Releases/Versions and then Components as they are both Dev oriented.

I would not be surprised if we see the terms Scrum and Kanban be replaced with Iteration and Continuous delivery as well...

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