Configuring a project
Your issue tracker should be the hub of your development project. When properly configured, Jira Software helps your team members prioritize and organize work better, so they can spend more time developing great software instead of wrangling issues.
A project is simply a collection of issues (stories, bugs, tasks, etc). You would typically use a project to represent the development work for a product, project, or service in Jira Software.
Scrum or Kanban? Scrum has an iteration-based approach, which is generally a good fit for teams developing products, particularly if your team is releasing new versions on a regular schedule. Kanban is better suited for a continuous flow of work (e.g. service-oriented teams), where its constraint-based approach helps prevent your team from being overloaded.
Before you begin
Ideally, you should be a Jira administrator (i.e. someone with the 'Jira Administrators' global permission), if you want to set up a new project in Jira Software. Many of the tasks involved can only be performed by a JIRA administrator, such as creating a project, modifying a workflow, etc. For more information, see Permissions overview.
Overview
The topics in this section cover the activities that you will need to do when configuring a project:
Create a project
Your first task is to create a Software project 
and configure it according to the needs and requirements of your development team. You need to be a Jira administrator to create a project, but you can configure most project details (e.g. name, avatar, etc) if you are a project administrator.
Learn more: Defining a project (Jira Admin documentation)