Configuring "People" to be part of "Teams"

[Ania Bodeit]

Hi,

My client would like to assign people to teams within JIRA.

As I understand it, they would like to have "Team A" with people in it and this team may be working on a certain types of issues.  Then they would like to have "Team B" with people in it, working on some other issues - or perhaps an Epic.

How can I set this up JIRA?

Thank you,

Ania

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

@Ania Bodeit Jira has security groups that can be created to provide access to projects and issues.  You can learn more here: https://support.atlassian.com/user-management/docs/create-and-update-groups/

Projects also have roles that can contain groups or individuals and give access to that project.  https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/manage-project-roles/

By default the tool is open and created for transparency and collaboration.  I would suggest using boards to help bring teams together.  You can have a board for each team and then load it with issues that they need to focus on and work on together.  https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/create-a-board/

If you want something that is more closed off and not as open you can use issue security and apply specific groups to the issues security you setup.  I would recommend against this as it will take away the collaboration and transparency that makes Jira great.  https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-issue-security-schemes/

[Ania Bodeit]

Thank you for the very thorough answer, including all the links.  This is great.  Much appreciated.