What are projects?

An Atlassian project represents any piece of work that people on your team or stakeholders at your company would like to receive regular weekly updates about to stay in the loop.

Projects help bring work into one place and provide just the right amount of context so that anyone at your company can understand what is being worked on, why it is happening, who is responsible for it, and how it is going.

At Atlassian, we create a project when a piece of work involves 2+ people for 2+ weeks. That way, we can consolidate and deliver updates on that work to anyone in the organization who wants to know how it’s progressing. You can set your bar higher or lower. The most important thing is to set a threshold low enough that your team will always have visibility into any piece of work that could block, impact, or have a dependency on the work of other teams.

Projects are updated each week. Project owners are sent a reminder to write their update on Friday morning, and updates are shared with followers on Monday in both their email digest and the update feed on Atlassian Home.