Explore roles for a software project
5 min
Intermediate
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Explain what tasks viewers, members, and project admins can perform
How can you access a software project?
In Jira, project roles control how people access and interact with a software project. Project admins assign users to roles to give them specific permissions. There are three typical roles:
- Administrators
- Members
- Viewers
👇 Click the tabs below to learn more about each of these roles.
The Administrators role enables users to:
- Assign users to project roles
- Edit project details, like name, description, avatar, and URL, as well as the project lead
- Configure boards and field layout
In team-managed projects, the Administrator role can make all project configurations. In company-managed projects, the role is more restricted.
For company-managed projects, only the Administrators project role is a default role for software projects in Jira.
Team-managed project admins and Jira admins can also create custom roles to meet a team’s needs.
👉 For example: The Security team works with engineers across the company to test and troubleshoot. They want these engineers to be able to view work, add comments, and update fields in the work item, but they don’t want the engineers to transition the work item between statuses. The Security project admin creates a new “Partner engineer” role and assigns that role view, comment, and edit permissions, but not the work item transition permission.
Let’s look at an example
Haru is a project admin for a company-managed software project. Two of her senior team members create most of the work in her project. They also manage work in the backlog.
Haru wants to give these senior teammates the ability to delete work items. The Administrators role has the ability to delete work items, but would give these teammates too much access to configure the project. The Members and Viewers roles can’t delete work items.
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Add users to a Jira project
- Add users to project roles
- Create a new project role