From the course: Jira: Advanced Administration

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Working with groups

Working with groups

- [Instructor] Roles and groups are often confused. Think of a role as a common function on a team and a group as the list of individuals performing that function. Project roles are often created when you initially configured JIRA and are likely not changed very often. Groups require regular maintenance however but they make user management easier. In this section, we'll discuss how to create, use and maintain groups. Here's our marketing team role example from the previous section. Now that we've created the needed custom roles, let's add users and groups to them. For the leadership or project administrators role, there's only one user so there's no need to create a custom group. For the team role, there are three users. So I'll create a group called marketing team. It's common for there to be one group per team or department, but don't create more groups than you're willing to manage. For the remaining user roles,…

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