Lack of project archive in standard plan is a deal breaker long-term

Nick
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May 20, 2024

Hi - we've been using JIRA for the best part of 10 years, with between 10-20 seats.

We've recently hired an excellent project manager who is helping us to all improve in this area. One key aspect is the need to be more granular on projects.

So we finally started looking at the requirement to archive projects. We don't want to lose nearly 10 years of technical info and decision-making, so project deletion is not an option.

However, it seems that we need to double our spend with Atlassian to access this basic/core feature, which is not an option.

We've seen work-arounds mentioned, but this is far from ideal.

Has any body suggestions of alternative project management systems that we can migrate legacy JIRA information to? Azure Devops was brought up.

Or is there still an outside chance that Atlassian will include archiving into standard plans or have a much more reasonable cost to access this single feature?

Thanks!

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Brant Schroeder
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September 28, 2024

@Nick welcome to the Atlassian community

I am not aware of anything on the roadmap that would bring the archive functionality to the standard plan.  I would suggest moving forward with the knowledge that you would have to upgrade to get that feature.  I am also not aware of any app that you could install that would provide that.  The work-arounds mentioned are what you would need to look at.  

Nick
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September 29, 2024

Thanks, Brant. We're resorting to a workaround (renaming the deprecated projects with a "z" added to the start). Graceless and I still feel this is very core feature that should be added to the standard plan.

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