Work is the new collective term for items tracked in Jira

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@AdarshSinghMaheshwar I tried to ask the Atlassian content designer Josh about this here, but I have not heard anything back.

Are you all also addressing “project” along this journey of change?

  • That has always been a weird term since a “project” would have an end (and most Jira projects never end). Atlas uses the term project and that is getting folded into Atlassian Home/Platform Experiences, so now there are two concepts of projects (with Atlas actually being the more accurate usage… but it is newer, so maybe that one will be re-termed?). It probably makes sense to change both and call the Atlas version segment or stream or milestone or initiative or program or loop
  • Feels like “workspace” could replace “project” since that is more accurate… or something similar to space could be appropriate… I can even see how “work” might fit better at that level instead of the issue level (although there is more than work in there and it still falls down in places such as “We should create a Jira work for that.”… “We should create a Jira workspace for that.” :slight_smile:
  • If you are altering a bunch of things with renaming issue, you could tackle project at the same time (I saw more problems with the term “project” and thought “issue” has been much more flexible… sorry for opening up a can of worms everyone)
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Hi Holly, thanks for getting in touch.

  1. In the most used screens in Jira, you will see the work type rather than the collective noun ‘work item’ where it makes sense. For example, when someone creates a ‘bug’ work type, they will see ‘Created bug’ rather than ‘Created work item’. This is something we’re working on and is not part of this release.
  2. We’ll be rolling out throughout March through to mid-April.
  3. Changes will roll out within all Cloud products at the same time.
  4. We’re working to update our customer-facing materials at the same time as our product roll out.
  5. We’ve turned off the Chrome extension. We’ll remove the link from this post.

Thanks again Holly.