Implementation of JIRA software multiple teams in a large enterprise

Surendra Meduri

Hi

 

I have few teams less than 20 members and others ranging from 50-500+ users in a business groups.  Each business group need different  workflow processes, not collaboration within workflows between groups.  However to manage and maintain on premise server installation, what are best options:

1. Can Atlassian provides Server-Enterprise level instance with about 2000+ licenses (or)

2. Since each business group has different business processes support through workflows which need different customization/plug-ins, so having an instance for each BU  is only option ? (or)

3. Other suggestions

 

Appreciate any help on this matter

 

Thanks

SM

Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

There is only one license per instance.  You choose the license tier that is the next larger to the number of users on the system.

The tool can accommodate a different set of fields and screens, different permissions, workflows, etc per project.  I would recommend against setting things up this way for performance reasons, though. It also makes management a real pain. My hunch is that the teams probably have a fair amount of overlap, so having a governance discussion before building anything wouldn't be a bad idea.  This can be as simple as identifying a large group of users that largely follow the same process and declaring that others others are outliers. Create a standard Project "Template" for the majority and then give the outliers what they need. 

On the topic of Plugins/Add-ons/Apps (current name, they all mean the same thing,) they are generally licensed based on the license tier of Jira. This means, if you have a 2000 user Jira license, the App will need to match that tier of 2000 users. There are rare exceptions, but nearly all Apps match the hosting application.