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Atlassian Projects is now a Platform app

Anika Rani

Hey Community,

I’m Anika, Principal Product Manager for Atlassian Projects. A few months ago, we shared that Projects was becoming a Platform App. Well that rollout is now complete. You should now see Projects available directly from the Atlassian app switcher, making it easier for your teams to find and use.

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A quick refresher: what is Projects?

The Projects app streamlines project communication across all your teams, no matter where the work happens. It gives everyone a single place to answer:

What are we doing, and why does it matter?
Who owns it?
How is it going?

Project owners share concise updates, while stakeholders and leaders get the visibility they need - without digging through emails, chats, or multiple tools.

What’s changed?

Previously, Projects lived in the Home app. With this change:

Projects appears as its own Platform app in the app switcher (just like all the other apps you love)
Project filters (Following, Archived) have moved to the left side navigation
It’s easier for teams to discover and access
It’s better connected with other Atlassian apps so you can easily navigate between Projects → Goals, Projects → Jira and so on.

Get started with Projects

We can’t wait to see how your teams use Projects for deeper collaboration, greater visibility, and faster, more informed decision-making. Ready to get your teams up and running? Start by exploring our support documentation.

Drop a comment below and share how you’re using Projects today and any feedback on how we can make it even more valuable for your teams.

Comments

Ahmet Kilic - T2T

The best place to communicate in non-technical or business language!

The best place for alignment
The best place for project updates
The best place to keep the train on time

Thanks, Platform teams, for this clear differentiation!

Need help implementing Jira, Projects, and Goals? Don't hesitate to reach out to me through ahmet.kilic@teams2tech.com.

Sean Perry

Great news. Now I'm interested to see what the roadmap brings in terms of new developments. I'd be interested to see the ability to view Status updates by month or week, as different stakeholders want different views.

Nick Sturkenboom

For me, it's still unclear why I should use a project over tracking epics in the Jira tab. It feels like I have to do double administration if I use a project and link only one epic to it. Or at least have to seperate communication across different places.

Personally, i would expect to see a Project containing a bundle a collection of epics/initatives, tracking their progress and having someone to report the overall status in the project tab.

However, when I'm creating a Project it seems I can only connect one epic to it. Could you elaborate more on the use case and context of Jira Projects? The current documentation on Projects couldn't help me in clarifying the added value.

At the moment it makes more sense to track progress in the linked themselves, or create a custom product type that allows you to bundle epics together

Peter Scobie

This is great, it was hard to roll out Projects across my company without it displaying in the app switcher.

Jon Fairman_z36iwo

I see Projects in the app switcher now, but will it be showing up in the Jira sidebar anytime soon? We don't have it there.

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Kirsty McLean_kmoaw0

Hi @Anika Rani - I've been testing Projects to keep internal stakeholders up to date, and there are lots of really useful elements.

My main frustration though is being unable to set update frequency per project, or even toggle the expectation for a weekly update on/off as a quicker fix.

Some of my team's projects are longer term and very stable, so definitely don't require weekly updates. However if we don't add one, we're then left with several 'No update was posted' boxes to scroll past to find older updates which contain important information. It also gives the impression that we've missed posting updates which isn't accurate, but will definitely be noticed and questioned!

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Are you planning to allow Projects users to select the expected update frequency for a project (i.e. weekly, fortnightly, per sprint, monthly etc)? Or if not, could you just allow users to completely remove the requirement for regular updates and instead post them as and when they're needed?

This change would allow me to roll Projects out more widely with confidence, but without it I'm reluctant to move ahead further with adoption.

Thanks!

Sean Perry

Totally agree, we have the same issue.

Jon Fairman_z36iwo

+1 to this request

Dave Mathijs

Hi @Anika Rani You can make it more valuable for our teams by confirming that Goals and Projects will remain free forever as platform apps.

Unsurprisingly, Atlassian has a history of starting apps as Free, only to switch to Standard/Premium/Enterprise plans after transformation/implementation (i.e. lock-in).

Apart from that, Projects can now be linked to Epics within a space (Where is the work tracked?. It would be nice to link them to a Space directly.

Mike Goitein

@Anika Rani - My question is similar to @Nick Sturkenboom

"why I should use a project over tracking epics in the Jira tab?"

I could see the value if I could associate multiple Jira Epics from multiple Jira (Software) projects/ multiple teams to contribute to a (platform) Project.

Our work is predominantly collaborative and cross-functional.

In this sense, we would need to (platform) Projects to function like Capabilities.

The other issue is that once we associate a Jira Epic with a Project, it copies over everything from that Epic. But usually, that's only one team's part of the effort.

And worse, I'm unable to change the Owner of the (platform) Project.

I've been setting them up as Admin but I've been unable to establish the true owner.

I've searched & haven't found a way to change ownership.

If anyone here knows, please respond. Cheers!

Linda Buchanan

Agree, ideally should be able to set the reporting/updates schedule for each project (default to weekly), but certain roles can change to fortnightly, monthly, etc

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