Projects under Boards or Boards under Projects?

[Robert St. Laurent]

I work for a publishing company and am new to creating projects and boards in JIRA. As a Product Owner for one small business line within the company developing its own list of digital products, which of these is correct or best practice?

• Create one Project for my business group, and then multiple boards, one for each book we're working on.
• Create one Board for my business group, and then multiple projects, one for each book.

It's the same dev team that will be working on multiple books concurrently.

[Bastian Stehmann · Accepted solution]

Hi @Robert St. Laurent ,

Welcome to the community. 

With what you said, I would prefer option two.

One project per book, then you can have components and versions specific to the book. And if needed, you can have other project configuration specific for a book.

In the board, you can show issues from as many projects as you want, so it is no problem to show them all there in one place and for the developers it won't matter from which project the issue is.

[Robert St. Laurent]

Hi @Bastian Stehmann  Thanks for your response. I've done what you suggested and so far, so good. I can see my multiple boards, filter them if I want, and prioritize tickets from across the boards in one unified backlog.