[perlgeek]

> JIRA unfortunately binds the concept of sprints which is more of a team thing to projects

I believe this has been fixed for some time.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-c...

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/combining-...

I agree about the too small number of hierarchical nesting though.