Connecting projects to teams

[KatherineM]

We are making use of the Goals in Jira to track the work we're doing to meet our objectives. We have also defined success measures there, and have created projects. All of that seems like it will be a lightweight way to connect our work to the mission behind it. 

As part of this effort, we are using Jira's Teams for the first time. Our projects = epics (and are connected), and are assigned to a Team. What we can't figure out is how to have those teams connect to the projects. The project directory page has a column for Team; how do we populate it? No matter what I try, it stays empty.

We have:

• added the field to epic screens and assigned a team
• created a plan and assigned a team to epics there (in case we missed something)

I can assign teams to goals and success measures just fine; how do I get something in the project teams column? We're soooo close to eliminating a spreadsheet! Thanks!

[Germán Morales _ Hiera]

I would separate the concepts here, because Jira uses “Project/Space”, “Team”, “Goal” and “Epic” in different places.

Assigning a Team to an Epic or to a Goal does not necessarily mean the project directory’s Team column will be populated. That column is tied to the Jira project/space metadata, not to the Team field you set on individual epics in a plan.

A practical workaround is to decide what the source of truth should be:

- If the unit you call “project” is actually an Epic, track Team on the Epic and build reporting from Epics.
- If the unit is a Jira project/space, check whether the Team needs to be set in the project/space settings rather than on work items.
- If you need a portfolio-style view, create a saved filter/report that groups Epics by Team and Goal instead of relying on the project directory.

The key is not to mix “Jira project” and “business project” unless you explicitly map one to the other.

[Tinker Fadoua]

@KatherineM  This should be under the questions in the Forum.