Before we start working with projects in Jira, we need to first understand a little bit about permissions. Permissions are a big topic, and we will cover them in detail in Chapter 9, Securing Jira. For now, we will briefly talk about permissions related to creating and deleting, administering, and browsing projects.

In Jira, users with the Jira administrator global permission will be able to create and delete projects. By default, users in the Jira administrators group have this permission, so the administrator user we created during the installation process in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Jira, will be able to create new projects. We will refer to this user and any other users with this permission as a Jira administrator.

For any given project, users with the Administer Project permission for that project will be able to administer the project's configuration settings. As we will see in the later sections of this chapter, this means that users with this permission will have access to the Project Administration interface for a given project. This allows them to update the project's details and configurations. By default, the Jira administrator will have this permission.

If a user needs to browse the contents of a given project, then they must have the Browse Project global permission for that project. This means that the user will have access to the Project Browser interface for the project. By default, the Jira administrator will have this permission.