Compare company-managed projects and team-managed projects in Jira
5 min
Intermediate
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:
- Describe the differences between company-managed and team-managed projects
- Identify if a project is company-managed or team-managed
- Differentiate what project admins can do in company-managed and team-managed projects
Compare project types in Jira
The project type you use in Jira determines how different users can administer the project. It also determines which features and behaviors are available.
Team-managed projects provide the team more independence in setting up workflows, permissions, fields, and other settings. They enable you to move quickly as they aren’t very complex. Your configurations only impact your project.
Company-managed projects share highly customizable configurations with other projects. These shared configurations, called schemes, allow greater flexibility than the settings available in team-managed projects. Only Jira product admins can create company-managed projects and implement many of the configurations, so project admins need to collaborate closely with their Jira admin.
👇 Click the boxes below to explore specific differences between team- and company-managed projects.
These project types are used in Jira and Jira Service Management.
Determine the project type
You can see the project type for any project by clicking More actions next to its name in the sidebar. The type will be listed at the bottom of the menu that appears.
You can also see the project type on the All projects page.
👇To see the project type, click More actions next to the project name in the sidebar.
Administer different project types
Though the same kinds of people are project admins for company-managed and team-managed projects (think product managers, people managers, team leads, scrum leads, and more), the role in Jira is very different.
👇 Click the tabs below to learn more about the differences between team- and company-managed project admins.
To be a project admin for either team-managed or company-managed projects, you need to have the administrator role for that project. The user who creates a project automatically has this role.
For company-managed projects, the Jira admin who creates the project can add other users to the administrator role, designating them as a project admin.