How is everyone organizing Jira? A project for each product or offering within a product or just a single backlog. The startup I work at have one backlog set up for the product but I find things get lost. The engineering team then have their own Jira projects where items from the product backlog get moved into it, refined, broken down into smaller tickets, and then scheduled into sprints. I can’t help but think this is hard to manage.

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One project board per product. The board is broken down into swim lanes so different areas of focus can view their sub tasks. And as a PM I can have a high level view of whats in motion or completed. Different views can also be created within the project if needed - so if for any reason the engineering team thinks the swim lanes are difficult, they could have their own view that doesn’t cause disruption to the product. Meaning when they move a task on their board, it will also be updated on the “main” board view.

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We have similar issues and I've been working to try and figure out the best way to work with it mostly.

In general I like a single backlog per product group (so unless something is a separate product or a shared service for multiple products, it is associated to that one backlog). If the company small enough or you have only one or 2 products then a single backlog for everything should also work well.

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Jira was not structured for Agile however they are catching up...I would go with agile central or similar products build for an agile environment..yes a board for a product and a running backlog...

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Agreed on having a backlog per product. One thing I’ve recently been testing out to get the cross-product or “program” level view of work and roadmap is Jira Align.

It’s an Atlassian tool (they bought I think AgileCraft, which became Align) and sorta sits on top of different Jiras to pull a single view. It is a separate tool with its own learning curve, but if people are worried about losing the combined view, it could solve that.

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How about switching to Aha! for product and using JIRA for dev + qa + release mgr?

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Wow, I have a similar problem and this is all super helpful advice.

You can do a lot in Jira with labels, components, teams etc. If you tag items right and set up boards properly you can share one project but it isn't hard for teams to focus on their own stuff. If you share a project this way then other teams can peruse each others' backlogs easily.

I would go with a project for every product, if your product is long standing and you plan on making modifications. I would separate those modifications or enhancements into initiatives and then break then down into epics then stories. If you have several different products that you are launching that may be smaller and have more concise timeframes I would use the initiative feature to split your work up and link the epics and stories to that for traceability

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