So happy about this terminology change! Our users find the term "Projects" really confusing (generally those who work on BAU work, not Projects) so we're already use the term "Project Space" with our users to avoid confusion.
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A very welcome change! We're trying to break the mindset of everyone wanting a new Jira Project for every initiative; this is really going to help with the comms.
We've been trying to get more of our business teams using Jira and Jira Service Management for both new work (without referring to them as projects) and BAU, and changing the name away from projects will help with getting by in from those teams.
@Shilpa Airi as @tradian and @Josh suggest, workspaces might be a better terminology than spaces; Confluence uses spaces, and that's the space where you write your documentation, so having Jira use workspaces aligns with that's where you do your work.
__ Jimi Wikman I'm with you that words matter and that these terms become overloaded causing confusion. I do think that the term Epic was first coined in Kent Beck's XP Explained book published in 2001 and it was defined there as a large story. Many people still think of it that way. In the same book a "theme" was defined as a group of stories and many still use that terminology also. I appreciate there are many different ways to control and manage software projects but I was particularly referring to agile teams here and I think that's where these terms are rooted and commonly used.
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I wish Atlassian would spend more time on useable features, instead of renaming existing stuff...
And, really? Spaces? This will result in the same confusion around "Teams" and how there is not really one Team. Now we have two types of Spaces.... groan.
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I understand that the term project is not really fitting for most work that needs a container. Of course there are real projects (with a start and end) so these people may be confused in future.
Please tell us also future technological changes you plan to switch over to spaces completely. I'm sure somewhere in the near future you will provide new JQL terms, APIs, smart values and deprecated the old ones later. Otherwise this would also create confusion for new admins / users because they work in spaces now but still have to use the JQL project field or us the project API to create or update a space.
I'm tired of explaining that a project in Jira is more like a portfolio or a department/team depending on the setup and that Epics are the actual projects.
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