Atlassian Projects, now in Jira

Your team’s work lives in Jira, but the bigger questions tend to live somewhere else. What are our key projects? Which work ties to which project? Are we on track? Answering those sometimes means switching to a status deck, tracking down a decision doc, or waiting for someone to compile an update.

Atlassian Projects brings that context directly into Jira. You get a single, native connection between the work your team does every day and the projects that work supports.

How it works

1. Connect any work to a Project.

A new Project field on Jira work items lets you connect any work item to an Atlassian Project, regardless of work item type or which space it lives in. You can connect multiple work items to the same Project, and child work items automatically inherit the Project form their parent, so you’re not tagging everything by hand.

This is a meaningful change from the old Connect app setup, which only allowed a single epic per Project. Now, a Project can represent the full picture of work happening across your teams.

2. See project context where you’re working.

Hover over the Project field on any work item to get a preview card showing the project’s status, dates, owner, key contributors, and summary. If you need more detail, open the glance panel for a fuller view without leaving your work item – no more context-switching to figure out what a project is about, who owns it, or whether it’s on track.

3. Group and filter by Project.

In List or Board view, you can group all work items by Project. This is especially useful for team leads and managers who need to see how effort is distributed across projects, which items are in progress, and where things might be stacking up. It turns you view into a portfolio-level snapshot of what your team is working on.

The Project field also supports inline editing, so you can update project associations without opening each work item individually.

4. Filter and query with JQL.

The Project field works with JQL, which means you can build saved filters, custom views, and dashboards around specific work. If your team already relies on JQL for how they organize and triage work, the Project field fits right into that workflow.

How to get started

Before getting started: Admins will need to add the Atlassian Project field to work items in your Jira configuration. Once the field is enabled, team members can follow the steps below:

1. Open a Jira work item

2. Find the Project field in the detail view

3. Search for (or create) the Atlassian Project you want to connect it to

From the Projects app, you can also connect Jira work items directly, and changes stay in sync across both.

For admins: Before the Atlassian Project field can appear on a work item, it must first be added to the space. This is a one-time setup per space. Projects is org-scoped.

Connect your Jira work to a Project and get a clear, shared view of how your most important work is tracking.

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