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Jira Work Management is now part of Jira

Leslie Hubertus

What's happening?

We will be merging this Jira Work Management group into the Jira group by the end of October 2024. As of May 1, 2024, the Jira Software group is now the Jira group. You can follow all Jira updates in the new group here.

Why are we doing this?

We’re combining Jira Software with Jira Work Management to create a tool for all teams called… well, Jira. This evolution of Jira offers a shared place for every team to align on goals and priorities, track and collaborate on work, and get the insights they need to build something incredible, together. Read more about what’s new here.

What do I need to do?

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What does this mean for Jira Work Management subscriptions?

Jira Work Management users will continue to have access to Jira Work Management until their organization migrates to Jira in early 2025. For more details on this migration, see FAQs here.

I have a question about this change

If you have any other questions, just leave them in the comments below!

Comments

Ryan Bullock

I am not seeing any information on how this affects users that have access to Work Management through JSM. Will they need Software licenses to continue using their Work Management projects after migration?

Arkadiusz Baka

What with Jira Software DC?

Abby Stiris

@Ryan Bullock thanks for your question! No new licenses needed, they will be able to continue using their Work Management projects through JSM.

Abby Stiris

@Arkadiusz Baka there are no changes coming to Jira Software Data Center

venkat patchigolla

Hope after few years they won't end up in separate products again

Violaine Iglesias

Hello, I don't understand what is supposed to happen for the frontend views of Jira Work Management. We use it through a subscription to Jira Software (most team members actually use both Jira Work Management and Jira Software). We mostly use Jira Work Management for non-dev work because it's simpler to use and set up than Jira Software, but I'd be interested in an improved experience for the Jira Work Management projects - is that part of the change?

Abby Stiris

Hi @Violaine Iglesias there will be no major changes to Jira Work Management projects. I'd love to learn more about what you'd like to be improved. Can you share more about that? Also happy to jump on a call if you prefer!

Violaine Iglesias

Got it, thanks. With the addition of editable Lists to Jira Software, we might move our Work projects to it anyway, if we can find the time to migrate them without too much trouble. Lists/spreadsheets view were there main reason we use Work for non-dev work.

We use Jira Work Management as our CRM (mostly so we can keep everyone's tasks in the same place - we're a small company and our to-do lists sometimes span marketing, sales, product).

What I wish would be improved:

Shared filters on views
Shared workflows, issue and field types
The ordering of statuses is wonky
Moving an issue from one project to another

We love how easy it is to set up a new project, but feel like there are maybe too many limitations compared to Jira Software.

Happy to show you what we've done and maybe get some pointers.

Douglas Bain

I am responsible for a number of JIRA based products at my company.

We do not develop a lot of software, so we have a small number of JIRA software (Premium) users.

However, I have sold our organization on the use of JIRA Work Management and have been deploying it across our departments for the last 18 months.

From what I have read, all of our JIRA Work Management users will need to be migrated to JIRA Software (Premium) users. This will mean that on our next subscription, our licenses costs will increase by over 200%.

In addition, the number of users will go over 100 meaning that all of our plugins will be charged at the 100 user banding.

I would be interested in understanding how this particular change is beneficial for myself and our organization? Did I make a mistake when I decided to roll out JIRA Work Management across our company? or, should I take a 200% increase in license costs as fair?

Emilee

Hi @Douglas Bain thanks for sharing your feedback and concern. I'll reach out to you directly so we can get a few more details to understand your license.

Kelechi Okoh

Hello, I need help please.

Since the change, I noticed all our sprints and backlogs in a project merged into one table with filter.

How do we manage sprints and backlogs. Each time I try to use a direct link to our board, it displays "you are not allowed" and I am an org admin. Please advise.

Anyi Weng

Hi @Kelechi Okoh - Thanks for reaching out! There were no changes to sprints and backlogs. If you can send a note to our support team we'll help you get this resolved.

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Leslie Hubertus

This announcement includes notification about the move of JWM Overviews to the Plans menu. With JWM Overviews moving to the Plans menu, does that mean that users now have to be members of the Plans User permission under Plans Global Permissions in order to create what was previously an Overview for JWM projects? Did a user previously require additional permissions to create a JWM Overview? I don't recall, but I think they did not.

In an instance where both JWM and JSW production subscription exist and a user has been given only a JWM license, with the move of Overviews to Plans, do they now need a JSW license in order to create a Plan, to access the JWM Overview functionality they previously had while having only a JWM license?

There is a community Question where the OP says that since the move of Overviews to Plans, their users that have only JWM licenses are unable to create Plans. It is unclear if they have tried to add the users to the Plans User permission under Plans > Settings.

That makes it sound like having a JSW license and being added to the Plans Global Permissions might be required now to get the same functionality through Plans that was previously available with a JWM license and JWM Overviews.

Oussema Marai_oj2w0t

hi @Abby Stiris

Oussema Marai_oj2w0t

@Abby Stiris hi,

i used Jira and i loved Jira until you do this merge of Jira and Jira work management, i understand your objectives but your execution is so wrong :

1- any added user will be subscripted in the plan of Jira and Jira work management , so i pay 2 time for 1 new user because i need him to use the feature Plan. thats mean if i add 5 users now with 10$ for JWM and then add them to Jira with 12.48$ only to use the feature Plans i will charge 22.48$ ?! waw

2- the feature Plans is so ridiculous in terme of UIUX , really ! why did you change the JWM Overview's by this one !!! pls return it back pls you ruined the platform ! why did the subtasks and the tasks separated !! why when i click on a ticket a new tab opened !!

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PLS look the difference !!

for me as a project manager , now i can not follow up easily my all team with this new overview.

i only chose this platform for my marketing company to 35 member just for the Overview in JWM or i keep using Clickup or Monday !!

really take my demands into consideration as a member and a client. for me if you can not keeping my all users using JWM even the new users i will cancel all my subscription. pls contact me in private its an urgent matter.

Leslie Hubertus

Hi @Trudy P Claspill first off, thanks for engaging with this and helping promote visibility to @Oussema Marai's concerns as well. I've asked a SME to reply to both of you with more information, and believe the PM who worked on Plans will be responding soon.

Irene

For visibility to others, @Trudy P Claspill 's question was answered here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Premium-articles/Welcome-to-the-next-era-of-Jira-Premium/bc-p/2695397#M442

Irene

@Oussema Marai , I have provided answers to your questions here instead, as it looks to be more comprehensive: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Work-Management-Questions/Re-New-invited-user-in-premium-subs-can-not-create-an-ov/qaq-p/2698059/comment-id/11997#M11997 I have also emailed you directly to connect.

Oussema Marai_oj2w0t

Thank you @Irene and @Trudy P Claspill

Kampaoh Tech

@Emilee Same here. Jira Workspace is much better suitable for most of our non-IT teams, they even prefer Trello over JW. So they dont need all the bells and whistles that Jira Software, ie ithe Development section. On the other hand, the price increase kills us too. We understand the unification (Trello, Jira Workspace, Jira Software) but unless there is a better flexible UI which addapts to the non-IT and IT, it is going to be UIX problematic.

This is not just about the huge impact in the budget, but also 3rd party plugins have a great impact here. If we are using 20 JW and 20 JS, tomorrow we will pay 40 Jira and 40 licenses to 3rd party plugins. Correct me if I am wrong.

TLTR: I believe Atlassian is still not there to merge both products since our members rejects the JS and prefers JW.

Oussema Marai_oj2w0t

@Irene Could we consider something else? I've seen this request so many times. I understand Jira has its special method and way to organize work, but we need this feature: the ability to assign two people to one ticket. Of course, time spent will be registered for both assignees. Each person will have their own ticket in their overview and their own notification, just to avoid the duplication of the same ticket many times. pls take this into consideration.

Andrew Zimmerman {Appfire}

I understand the unification at the product level, but can you please confirm that there will continue to be a distinction between software and business project types within Jira, or are project types going to be unified as well?

I ask because there is still feature variance between the two project types currently, and I want to be as clear as possible with end users selecting a project type for new project setups.

Thank you,
Andrew Z.

Ravid

Will the summery page be available for Jira as well?

Anyi Weng

@Andrew Zimmerman {Appfire} - Business and software projects will remain unique project types, but we plan to bring overlapping capabilities into alignment across the project types for a simpler UX.

@Ravid - The summary view will be coming as one of the areas of alignment across the project types.

Stay tuned for more updates as these changes happen!

Loren Smith_a81kp1

Will you be brining the approval functionality in workflows from the Business Projects to the Software Projects?

That is really the only thing (short of forms) that is holding us back from migrating our Business Projects to Software Projects...

Anyi Weng

@Loren Smith - While the approvals feature will continue to be available for business projects, it’s currently under consideration to be added for software projects in the future.

A A Ron Geister _Trundl_

Since the announcement of this I had been asked lots of question that I can only assume which I don't want to do. One of the question that is relevant is: "Will multiple boards still be an option?"

Currently in JWM only one board is allowed and for JSW multiple boards are allowed. What will be the outcome of the merger?

The other question is will the summary page from JWM be part of the new Jira?

The last and final question will Approval become part of Jira? As they are being integrated to JWM this would seem that it is available in Jira.

Anyi Weng

@A A Ron Geister _Trundl_ - We have plans to integrate the Summary view into Jira across business and software projects, and Approvals is under consideration to be added for software projects in the future.

Thanks for the feedback about enabling multiple boards for business projects! We will definitely share that with our product team. Multiple boards will continue to be available for software projects in Jira.

A A Ron Geister _Trundl_

When we start to just call it Jira like the old days I think that all of the new feature will be very import to keep the product as powerful as it is to add those different feature to the merged Jira. Thanks for the consideration of my thoughts and if ever you want reach out as I would love to help guide any of this from an Administration side.

Respectfully,

A A Ron

Peter Quick

Hi @Anyi Weng ,

Regarding the Approvals feature possibly coming into software projects, we would appreciate the JSM approvals flexibility of selecting an option for the number of approvers needed for an approval step.

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