How to initiate projects in Jira

Jira provides flexibility for teams to organize project items based on their roles. We will be discussing these user roles and permissions in the next section. However, the admin role is the role with which we can create and set up a project as per our needs.

Setting up a Jira project is a very simple process. After you sign up, you will see the Welcome! page, where you can create projects from the templates provided, such as Scrum, Kanban, and so on.

Let's click on the Create new project button. It provides us with templates to create projects in Software or Business. In Software, we can see templates for Basic software development, Scrum software development, and Kanban software development projects. These are shown in the following screenshot:

After project creation, there are a few more things that we need to take care of, such as configuring the project, the project dashboard, workflows, permissions, issue types, fields, components, and so on.

Apart from that, you may have to set up your project build repositories (from Fisheye or Bitbucket), as well as creating and configuring build plans. Also, Jira provides the flexibility to connect other development and team collaboration tools, such as Confluence, and HipChat.