
Project admins also don’t need to worry about impacting other projects since Team-managed projects don’t use Jira schemes and work independently. This project type is managed by the project administrators, empowering the team to decide and implement their changes without requiring help from the Jira Administrator.

Essentially this means that only the Jira Administrator can perform changes that impact Company-managed projects. This project type is managed by your company. So, you’ll need to think about how the project will grow over time before choosing the project type. There are known data loss issues during the migration. Keep in mind, migrating between Team-managed and Company-managed projects is not a trivial task. Screenshot of creating a new project based on Kanban Template When creating new projects in Jira, you will have to choose between the two project types, and we want to provide you with some guidance and confidence to choose the one that best meets your business needs. The Importance of Choosing the Right Project Type The names were updated from “Next-gen” projects to “Team-managed” projects and “Classic” projects to “ Company-managed.” This name change reflects the main difference between both types - Who is responsible for administering the project. This year Atlassian renamed the project types to use more meaningful nomenclature. Using this new project type, they could present new features and ideas that would potentially roll out to Classic projects in the future. Atlassian tested new features and validated the idea with independent teams that wanted fresh features and total control over their projects. Initially, the “Next-gen” was a beta feature. In 2018, Atlassian launched Next-Gen projects for Jira Cloud to provide project administrators the ability to fully manage their projects, without requiring Jira administrators to add new statuses to the workflow or new fields to screens.

This article will introduce you to team-managed and company-managed projects in Jira and help you pick the right option for your team.
