Question on Jira Board Structure and Best Practices

[Gee Espiritu]

Hello, everyone!

I'm curious about the best practices for using Jira Software. I'm currently talking to our Project Management Office (PMO), and they've asked me for a recommendation on the best way to structure our boards.

So far, our plan is to have an intake process in Jira Service Management. Once an intake is approved, we'll transfer the data to a Jira Software board for project management.

My question is, what's the best board structure for this? Should it be per project? Or should we have a board per team, with projects designated as Initiatives within it?

P.S.

Apologies if this was already asked but I just want to see your thoughts and experience.

[Dick]

Hi @Gee Espiritu Welcome to the Atlassian Community

At our university, we do the latter: We have designated teams that each have a Jira Space to track their issues of the projects they do work for.  The work items can be of all issue types, as we use components to discern the projects. That way, you can still have the whole tree of the high-over strategic thoughts (management will be happy) and the low-level tasks-to-be-performed of the project (the team knows what to do) in one Jira Space together

Kind regards,
Dick