Chapter 7. User Management, Groups, and Project Roles
JIRA could be used by 10 people or 10,000 people spread across multiple locations. Large companies have multiple teams working on different projects and using the same JIRA instance, so it is usually important to manage the permissions. Maybe there are certain projects that should be private to a certain team, or there could be third-party contractors working on a specific project and they should not have access to all the projects. JIRA is incredible tool for managing the access level and permissions of users.
It is important to understand how to manage the users and groups in JIRA. In this chapter, we will also take a look at project roles—the set of people working on an individual project.
The topics covered are as follows:
User and group management
Working with project roles
Types of administrator
