# Projects

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#### NEW - Data Integration Projects

NEW in Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) v11 projects help you organize ETL workflows by grouping related transformations, jobs, and metadata into logical containers. This structure brings clarity and consistency across all your environments.

**Organization and collaboration:** Projects reduce complexity by segmenting large data environments into manageable modules. Each project is self-contained, making it easy to share, move, or track in version control without losing configurations. This supports team collaboration and maintains a complete history of changes.

**Environment management:** Projects ensure your workflows run consistently across development, QA, and production. Layered configuration settings at the project, system, and repository levels clarify where each setting comes from, while reusable configurations eliminate repetitive manual edits. Configuration isolation prevents conflicts between different projects.

**Developer experience:** The Spoon UI provides dedicated menus and file trees specifically for working with projects, making navigation intuitive. Projects maintain backward compatibility, so your existing workflows continue to run without modification.
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