What is the best approach for creation of groups

[sathishkumar]

We are setting up the JIRA and Confluence for our company and want to understand from the community members, what are the best practices being followed or standards for financial institutions ? 

we have created groups for different vendors but not have added any products ( jira or confluence ) to the groups, is this the right approach ? do we need to add products to the groups ? 

[Peter Bengov]

Hi @sathishkumar 

Per our experience, it's usually the org hierarchy we use the most. Groups for departments, divisions and teams are what we use the most. 

They drive most of the permissions setting the groups are good for. 

In Jira, you have better alternatives for tracking products like JQL which can filter per Component or per assignees etc. 

Will note, other orgs might have different settings but ours is really making out group management very easy.