Application to alias Jira Admin rights to others?

[Athas Mark]

on our Enterprise Jira account, we want to enforce specific conventions on company-managed projects--we may use template projects, or create Jira Templates using the SDK--we have not determined that yet.

We have been thinking about creating our own UX that would use a Jira Admin account on the backend that would enable select non-admins to to do functions like Create Company Project, Archive Company Project.

Has anyone considered doing something like this, or would recommend another approach?   We are (will be) a site of 4k users and 1k+ teams.  A small group of central administrators will not scale.  We imagine about 100+ persons in a defined leadership role globally, as users of this custom UX application.

I'm also operating on the assumption that the REST API would allow-us to do such a thing.

Thoughts appreciated.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

For creating new projects there is a third party app called Delegated Project Creator for Jira that would serve your purpose I believe. I used it a few years ago in a Jira Data Center environment, and it worked well for constraining the organization to using a predefined set of shared project configuration. It allowed any user to request a new project from the predefined set of templates, and for us to designate a group of non-Jira-Admins who were permitted to fulfill the requests (which resulted in the projects actually being created).

I haven't reviewed the Jira Cloud version, but I would suspect it works the same way.

I haven't checked to see if there is a project archiving feature in it.

[Athas Mark]

@Trudy Claspill Thank you for the reference.  I will look into that plug-in!