How do you change a project type?

[Shira Honig]

I'm brand new to Jira. I'm looking to create a generic project so I can keep track of my side hustle and work in sprints. I created a new project, and it asked me if it was in HR. It's not, but I didn't realize what happened until it's too late. Now I have categories like Candidates and Interviews. How do I change this to a generic project that I can customize? Do I have to create a new project from scratch? Thanks for any help!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can do a lot of work on re-configuring any project created from a template, converting them from one shape to another, but only really within the application that the project is for.  If, for example, a project is a Jira Software project, you can re-configure it to be Scrum, Kanban, or anything else within Software, but you won't be able to convert it to a JSM helpdesk type project (completely, you can get close)

You may well be better off creating a new project, in the application you really wanted to use, and with a template that suits better than HR.

Moving issues from one project to another is often a lot easier than trying to reshape projects that don't fit (certainly when you are moving between applications)

[Shira Honig]

Thank you!!! I did, I created a new project and deleted the old one. But how do you know if it's a Jira software project or just a project? I wouldn't mind switching it to scrum if possible, the only thing missing is sprints. I'm accountable to myself, so it's all in what I do, but sprints are more likely to keep me on track.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Easiest thing to do is look in the list of projects - the list has a column that will contain Software, Business, Service Management (despite the drop-down filter saying Service Desk), or Product Discovery. 

Business means "Jira Work Management".

The field will also contain Team or Company managed (some projects may not display that - they were created at a time when Service Management did not have team-managed projects, so you'll find they are Company-managed.  Also JPD doesn't have a management type, but I'm not sure whether to accuse it of being Team or Company, it is done differently again)

[Shira Honig]

Super thanks! I'm mainly testing this out for myself, a team of one for now so to speak, to encourage productivity and work in sprints. I may add another person as an accountability buddy or partner, if I'm finding it worthwhile. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

If you want to work in sprints, you should look first to create Jira Software projects - they support Scrum automatically, without needing any reconfiguration.

[Shira Honig]

Ok great to know, thanks!