I'm looking at JIRA as the business tool for managing our development team. But before I invest my time in this product I have a fundamental question... Can JIRA help me manage multiple products/projects with one small team?

[Mandy Boyd]

So I want to be able to track the progress of each product/project independently but plan a sprint with just 1 team. I.e. The sprint will encompass several projects/products with 1 team of people.

the team may be designing one feature, developing a feature, testing a feature and doing some bugs fixes all in one sprint but across multiple projects/products. Can I plan this and see this in JIRA. 

Thanks,

Mandy

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Simple answer is "yes" because a board (scrum or kanban) can be set up to draw in issues from many projects and work together with evertyhing it includes.  Scrum boards have a lot of functions around planning of course, with backlogs and scrums.