How to set up my project?

[Mathias Mohrs]

Hey everyone,

We want to introduce Jira in our company. We have a total of 40 people and 4 different teams (3 development teams and marketing). My idea is to work with program initiatives and epics. There are many overlaps and dependencies – for example, Development Team 1 needs to complete something before Development Team 2 can continue. The marketing team defines own to dos on how they want to communicate new features related to this topic. All these requirements and dependencies should be consolidated in the epics.

Should I create a single software project, set up epics there, and build different boards where the different teams can work / only see their doings? Or can I also create separate projects, so that, for example, marketing gets its own project but can still see the epics from the development project and link their own tickets to them?

I would really appreciate your help in making this first decision…

Bonus question: Moreover we want to use roadmap features. Is Standard plan enough for uns or do we need Premium?

I would really be happy to get help here :)

[Mirek]

Hi @Mathias Mohrs 

I think starting with single project with multiple boards is easier and I recommend doing that. If you on any time of the project notice that something is missing you can easily split this into something separate.. if you go opposite it might be harder when projects would over time have differences in configuration that every team would make..  

As for Standard / Premium choice.. As always it is good to simply try both features (trial) and see if that is something that is helpful. When doing so you would definitively gain Advanced Roadmaps which help managing things more easily. I think that is good to start with Standard to gain something and if this would not be enough upgrade which of course can be done at any time.