Best way to setup projects for a Saas company

[larissa]

Hi everyone, looking for recommendations for best practices for setting up Jira for a Saas company that does customer onboarding. As well as managing feature development and being able to see features that affect delivery for clients. The way it is currently set up is each project is a team. And then each team performs their own sprint planning etc. Snr management would like to see all of the customer onboarding timelines against feature development and would like to be able to plan resources better. I am looking at setting up Jira Advanced Roadmaps. Would it be better to switch to projects being client-based rather than team-based? And then create teams? I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to the administration of Jira. So links to videos with some suggestions would be very much appreciated. TIA

[Karyna Tyrnavska _SaaSJet]

Hi, @larissa 

Check out Business Process Manager add-on. My team has developed it to streamline business processes, especially, onboarding. You can use the built-in templates or create a customized one that meets your needs.

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[Eric Powell]

Hey Larissa, 

Your company does "customer onboarding" for another entity, correct? If no, provide more details. 

1. Snr Mgmt wants to see: [Customer Onboarding Timelines] against [Feature Devs] = Plan resources better. You need to expand on what you mean by "Customer Onboarding Timelines". What does that mean in more detail. 

2. "Would it be better to switch to projects being client-based rather than team-based?"  This depends on your team's ability to handle one or more projects. If one client's project requires several epics ~ 2 weeks, then a 1:1 project to team ratio would probably be best. Thus, client-based.

If a client's project can be completed within a single epic with minimal sprints, then consider it team based. Where a team can handle multiple clients at once. These qualitative questions should be answered by the Agile methodology that your organization is using Scrum, SaFE, etc.