As you have seen, Jira allows you to assign default members to projects when they are created. This might be sufficient for most projects when they start, but changes will often need to be made due to staff movement during the project life cycle. While it is possible for the Jira administrator to continue maintaining each project's membership, it can easily become an overwhelming task, and in most cases, since project roles are specific to each project, it makes sense to delegate this responsibility to the owner of each project.

In Jira, an owner of a project is someone with the Administer Projects permission. By default, members of the Administrators project role will have this permission. We will see how to manage permissions in Jira in a later section.

As a project administrator, you will be able to assign members to various project roles for your project. You can assign roles from the project administration page, as follows:

1. Browse to the project administration page for the project you want to update.
2. Select the Users and roles option from the left-hand panel.
3. Click on the Add users to a role link.
4. Start typing the user's username or the group's name. Jira will auto-search for results as you type.

5. Click on the Add button once you have found the user/group you want to add:

The users and groups assigned to the project role will be for the current project only. Each project administrator can configure this for their own projects. In this way, you can maintain project role memberships separately for each project.