Our software company (~ 250 employees) is thinking about moving vom Redmine to Jira.
However, we currently use a stucture based on subprojects in Redmine. I'm trying to figure out how we should organize ourselfes in Jira, since Jira doesn't seem to have the concept of subprojects.
I'll try to explain how we are organized right now in Redmine and hopefully anyone can give me some advice on how to do this in Jira.
We have 2 differenet lines of business:
a) Product Development
b) Project Management
Product Development is developing product suite - you might compare it to MS Office.
There is a redmine project "Product Suite", which has all the target versions, which are our releases. All product developers are members of this redmine project. For every product (like Word, Excel, ...) there is a subproject. Some products have optional AddOns, which are again subprojects of the product.
Components are used for technical parts of each product (like database, frontend, ...).
Alltogether we have about 50 projects in redmine for product development - all of which are subprojects of the top level project "Product Suite".
Project Manamgent on the other hand is doing customer services and sometimes they develop customizings.
Beside the top level redmine project for product development there is a top level project for each customer. And we user subprojects for different projects we do for each customer. Often these subproject correspond to a order in our erp-system.
Since you can define relations between issues from different redmine projects the project management people can link there issues to issues in product development.
We have about 200 projects in redmine for customers. Each of them has from 1 to 20 subprojects.
As you can see - we largely rely on project stuctures with subprojects in Redmine.
How can we organize this in Jira?
