From the course: Learning Jira (Cloud Edition)

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Parts of a project

Parts of a project

As discussed in the last section, what you can see or do in a Jira project depends on the project type. In this section, we'll take a little tour of some of the helpful features for each project type. There are some concepts that are common to all project types, so don't skip ahead even if you don't currently use all of them. Let's start with a Work Management project. The navigation for this project type is unique. It's at the top instead of on the left sidebar. Some other unique features for this project type include the statistics shown on the Summary page, the List view where it's easy to filter and group issues. The Calendar view where you can manipulate issue start and end dates and plan unscheduled issues. Any changes made in this view are immediately present in other views. Always keep that in mind. You can also manipulate dates in the Timeline view or create a dependency by linking one issue to another. Click on the dependency line for additional details. And any links…

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