Give your developers flexible features for project management that adapts to any team, project, and workflow—all alongside your code.

About

We can use github projects to manage larger trello cards where multiple developers are assigned.

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Pros:

• developer side organization
• creates a checklist of tasks
• tasks can be individually assigned
• fast addition / editing of tasks

Cons:

• creates an instance of multiple sources of truth
• setup time is required
• only useful if we have buy-in from the team

Link to Demo Repo

https://github.com/cswithen/projectboard-showcase

Link to the Project Board

Project Board Setup and Walkthrough

The following section will walk through a use case for setting up a project within github, creating issues, and using the automated features.

Project Startup

Start by navigating to the Projects tab onto the github repository make sure to select the Project option that is not in beta currently.

After selecting New project on this tab you will be presented with a form to fill out to provide details for the project and to setup a template. It is recommended to select Automated Kanban here

Note: choosing the “Automated Kanban” template here sets up our board to handle automation right out of the gate

Once Create Project is selected you will be navigated to the project board with some startup notes that provide some resources incase you want additional information

Creating Notes and Issues

There are multiple ways to create issues and assign them to this project, but I found the most comfortable way in this context is to create them within the project board with a note and then convert that to an issue.

Start by selecting the + icon at the top of the To Do column, and begin typing out what task you would like to add. To make it easier later, format your note as having the desired title be the first line and your description of the issue after a line break