GitHub for Project Management

Jonathan Peake

Why use GitHub for project management?

  • Issues and projects stoke collaboration
  • Issues act as short-term to-do lists
  • Projects capture longer-term goals and organize short-term issues

https://albertobasalo.medium.com/project-management-with-github-issues-and-projects-cb8eb6da966f

Issues

  • Tasks for things to do
  • Place to provide detail
  • Checklists, labels, tags
  • Assign to collaborators

Projects

  • Group issues to view everything together
  • Work across repositories
  • Show progress by collaborators