Jira administrators versus project administrators

Again, this is not intended to be an exhaustive list, and you can search Atlassian's documentation for more details. However, you can relate Jira administrator functions to be more global in nature, meaning they affect the entire Jira instance/site.

Jira administrators can make changes to shared schemes (workflows, screens, and issue types), create custom fields, edit the permission scheme, change ownership of shared dashboards and filters, and other system-level functions.

For JWM, project administrators can make changes to non-shared objects and project roles on the project, but not the permission scheme used by the project. Figure 8.26 shows a very brief table of permissions available for Jira administrators and project administrators. In a nutshell, Jira administrators can make changes globally within your Jira instance and project administrators can only make changes on the projects where they have the project administrator...