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Create a new project

Start a new software
project for your team
Jira products comes with many different project templates What is a Jira Software
created to suit your team's needs and workflow. For example, project?
you can create projects optimized for Scrum or Kanban
methodologies. Create a new project

Edit a project's details

Jira admins can create projects from any template.
What is a Jira Software
By default, any user can create their own next-gen
board?
project (like the next-gen Scrum or next-gen
Kanban projects). Jira admins can change this Create a board
setting in global permissions.
Learn more about next-gen projects. Show more

To create a project: Community

1. Select Projects > Create project in the navigation. Questions, discussions,
and articles
2. Choose either a classic project or a next-gen project.
Learn more about next-gen projects.
3. Give your project a name.
4. Double check that the project's template matches your
team's needs. To view a list and choose from other
templates, select Change.
5. Select Create.
We automatically generate a project key when the project
is created. Whoever created the project is set as the project lead
by default.

To change these details:

1. From your project's sidebar, select Project settings.

2. Select Details.

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We remember which template you choose and use that as the

default whenever you create a project.

Create a project that shares its

configuration with another project

Only Jira admins can create projects with a shared

configuration.

Projects that share configuration share:

issue types
workflows
screens
fields
permissions
notifications
and more

If a change is made to one of the projects' configurations, that

change affects all the projects that share that configuration.

To create a project with a shared configuration:

1. Select Projects > Create project in the navigation.

2. Choose Classic project.
3. Give your project a name.
4. Select Advanced.
5. Tick the Share settings with an existing
project checkbox.
6. Use the Choose project dropdown to select the project
from which you want your new project to share its
configuration..
7. Select Create.

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