Hi,
I'm currently preparing for the ACP-610/ACP-620 certification, and I have been going through the lessons in Managing Jira Projects (ACP-610/ACP-620 Certification Prep) a few times, and I've also been reading random blog posts and discussions on the Atlassian community. My previous experience with Jira software is as an end user.
I've found it difficult to fully grasp the terminology surrounding the levels of administration for Atlassian/Jira, and I believe this is due to inconsistencies in the terminology used on forums and in the Atlassian University course material.
I'd like to discuss what I have found so far, probably exposing my lack of knowledge and getting slapped on my fingers for ranting about stuff I just learned.
The terms for describing different levels of administration that I have come across are:
- Organization admin
- Site admin
- Jira admin
- Product admin
- Project admin
From what I have found, Organization admin and Site admin have the same permissions. The difference is that Organization admin is a role and Site admin is a group. After plaiying around in the sandbox supplied via the certification course, I noticed this:
- Adding a user to the site-admins group automatically assigns them the Organization admin role.
- Assigning a user the Organization admin role automatically adds them to the site-admins group.
Furthermore, the Jira admin and the Product admin relate to each other in a similar way;
- Adding a user to the jira-admins-<site name> group automatically assigns them to the Product admin role for the product Jira administration.
- Assigning a user to the Product admin role for the product Jira administration automatically adds them to the jira-admins-<site name> group.
This has given me the impression that there are essentially three levels of administration in Jira:
- Org admin/site admin
- Product admin/Jira admin
- Project admin
Is this a correct assumption?
Thanks,
Johan
