Is it possible to create a project, and have it represent an issue in another project?

[Frannie]

Our project management team looks at a higher level scope than our IT group. The project management team looks at just one Jira project, which houses the "issues" that represent all the work planned in our company's pipeline.

However, our IT looks at a more specific view. When they create a Jira project it represents just one issue mentioned above. In the IT project, the issues within the project are used to represent small tasks. 

Is there a way to link the two? We are trying to avoid redundancy. My question is around creating a relationship between different groups in our company that define "projects" and "issues" differently.

Thank you

[joeWeiss · Accepted solution]

A project is represented by a JIRA key.  MYPROJECT-100 is an issue for myProject.  Is it as simple as creating epics for your project management team to look at?  MYEPICPROJECT-100 would be the parent epic of all MYPROJECT issues?  MYPROJECTEPIC would be the project that contains all of your epics.

I may be simplifying things here.  

[Frannie]

Thanks Joe. This makes sense. I'm going to try to reconfigure the setup by using epics.

[joeWeiss]

Happy to help.

[Leo Diaz - Deiser]

Hi @Frannie 

Perhaps you can use Profields and create a field to link your Management Project with your IT Project. Something like this: