How To Create Project Boards and Use Issues

You can create Issues to highlight new features, bugs and break upcoming goals of a project into smaller chunks. You can create GitHub Issues and include Task Lists for each task that you plan to work on.

Here is an example Issue that we created to highlight a certain task for our project.

We use project boards to organize the tasks within the team.

Once your project board is created, begin to create issues and populate the board with them

• Create an issue for every task you plan to work on

  • Break issues down into smaller pieces if they cannot be completed in a single sprint
  • Be specific in the description of the issue
  • Tag other related issues with a ‘#’ as necessary
  • Provide acceptance criteria for when the issue can be closed
  • Assign yourself or your teammates who you plan to work with on the task to the issue
• Add the issues to the New column of you project board
• When you’re almost ready to begin working on an issue, move it to the To Do column
• Once you start work on an issue, move it to the In Progress column

For more information of the remainder of our GitHub workflow, please visit this page.