How to change the Project Lead for a project

Sonali Subudhi June 2, 2022

Hi ,

What are steps to change the Lead of an existing project in Jira?

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Marco Brundel
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June 2, 2022

Hi @Sonali Subudhi 

Go to the Project Settings. Choose 'Users and Roles'. Choose 'Edit defaults' and adjust the project lead.

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Mikael Sandberg
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June 2, 2022

You need to have at least project admin permissions, then go to the project, select Project settings > Details and from here you can change the project lead. 

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