Hi everybody,
during last Christmas holidays and partially in January I’ve been studying for ACP-120 certification. Team-managed projects are included in this certification, so I had to looked into them more again… and I’m still struggling… struggling to like them…
As a somebody who loves to share as much configurations as possible, it is hard for me to use them. When I set up a new Jira instance, it is usually the first thing I change - I don’t want anybody to be able to create team-managed projects - create something, which is not under admin’s control.
In my experience when our customers use them, after some time they usually ask us to convert them to company-managed projects, because they miss some functionality. I can see a lot of improvements have been implemented lately, but still it is not enough.
So, I would like to ask, when do you recommend to use team-managed projects? Under which circumstances is good to have them in your site?
Thank you!
Thank you.
I agree it can give you some sort of idea, how Jira works, if you don’t know it, but with all the templates and functionality available for company-managed projects I still prefer to use these for demonstrations…
yeah, I fully agree. I personally feel very limited with team-managed projects and I feel like I'm missing out on something big ahah
For better or worse, I hypothesize many customers have a TMP project even when they do not want it, as JPD seems wholly built upon it. Anyways...
I have supported teams who are self-starters (or think they are :^) regarding agility, and they insist on having the flexibility of a TMP project to make changes immediately...such as during the standup or retro. They do not want to wait for a Jira admin to be available to alter an issue type, field, or workflow. They like to fail-fast, even if it clutters their project a bit by adding, removing, and re-adding something later.
Unfortunately, those TMP rapid changes can then cause problems for others, such as with saved filters. For the teams at my last position who used TMPs, I had regular touch-base conversations with them to learn what they were trying so the admins would be better prepared to support them.
Kind regards,
Bill
Thank you.
I agree, I feel a lot of people think they need this kind of flexibility, but the changes they do are not good, because they are not experienced enough to see the consequences.
Amen, sister!
To be honest, I don't like them and think they usually cause more problems in the long run than they are worth. I never recommend them. But that's just me.
It’s not only you, it’s me too :-).
Thank you.
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