How to manage project for R&D department

Ivana Miljkovic_tvvdvx

Hi guys, 

Can you please help me with your advice how to manage projects within R&D department. I have been working as PM for 2,5 years and have never had an experience with these type of projects, only with Software projects. Also, Jira wasn't tool I used in a past, some internal company tool. So, two things I have to learn now - Jira and how to manage this new type of project. 

I started with creating Classic project and issues I used are:

version

epics

user stories with subtasks. 

 

Any advice is helpful. 

 

Thanks a lot, 
Ivana

Earl McCutcheon

Hello @Ivana Miljkovic ,

We have a few blog posts out that cover exactly this topic and have some good ideas and tips that I recomend checking out:

• Getting started with Jira: 6 basic steps
• Project management for non-project managers
• Jira Software: How can non-software teams use Jira Software?
• Use Jira Core for project management
• Jira Software best practices

The Big question though is what do you plan to do with the R&D project?  Are you looking to use it for issue collection from external users as Service Desk might be best in this case.  If you're looking to do a task based approach more of checklist of items through a workflow, a business project might be best, or if you are looking to maintain granular issue tracking and release schedule planning Jira Software may be the best to use.

Regards,
Earl