GitHub for Project Management

Jonathan Peake

What are GitHub Projects?

• Adaptable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work on GitHub

• Spreadsheet, task-board, and roadmap integrated with issues and pull requests

• Provide multiple views by filtering, sorting, grouping issues/PRs

• Visualize work with configurable charts

• Add custom fields to track team-specific metadata

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

Project views

Table layout - Excel-style spreadsheet of project issues and metadata

Project views

Board layout - Kanban-style board for organizing issues by status or label

Project views

Roadmap layout- High-level visualization of project over time

Adding views

• You can have multiple views in one project

• Views can be tailored to many different needs through layouts, fields, and filters

• Views can be temporary for a single session or saved to the project