Best way to design Jira Project Hierarchies

[kamal5555ahmed]

I am working with Jira V 9.12 and wanted to know what the best way to setup Projects, Dashboards, Boards and Plans. We have 5 Teams:

1. Budget

2. Software Development

3. Data Management

4. Information Security

5. Infrastructure

Thanks

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @kamal5555ahmed welcome to the Atlassian Community!

In Jira, there are no project hierarchies, sub-projects or parent/child projects. All projects are on the same level. You can create different project categories and associate a project with a project category.

Projects can be anything: a project for a team, a project for a product, a project for risks, a project for a non-IT team, ...

Jira offers software projects (Jira Software in Server/Data Center) and business projects (Jira Core in Server/Data Center)

In Jira Cloud, you have 2 types of projects: Company-managed (my personal preference) or team-managed projects.

Have a look at the following guide: Jira Projects Overview

There is no right or wrong, it depends on your business needs and how you would like to collect issues.