

Use parent-child, duplicate, depend on, and block relationships in issues and projects to keep everyone aligned. You need richer ways to link the work that is happening. Going forward, the roadmap (see above) shows the dev team focusing on adding new functionality, having achieved parity with the classic GitHub Projects offering. GitHub Projects Roadmap (source: GitHub). You can use it, or the accompanying project board, along with custom fields, to track a sprint, plan a feature, or manage a large-scale release."Īnd, with the new spreadsheet option, developers now have the option to plan things in the traditional board style: "Built like a spreadsheet, project tables give you a live canvas to filter, sort, and group issues and pull requests. "The new GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point," GitHub's Mario Rodriguez said in a July 27 announcement.

So the basic idea is to productize such practices. In announcing the new GitHub Projects, Microsoft said tools hard-coded to one specific methodology aren't adaptable or flexible enough for changing demands, so developers using them often resort to using tools like a notepad or spreadsheet, which leads to a planning/development disconnect.
BOARD FOR GITHUB UPDATE
The update also provides an option to use a spreadsheet-based UI scheme as an alternative to the classic board-based approach, popularized by Kanban Boards, which "visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process," according to Wikipedia. GitHub Issues is an integrated tool used to track ideas, feedback, tasks, bugs and so on.
BOARD FOR GITHUB SOFTWARE
The new GitHub Projects offering is powered by the Issues functionality of the popular software development platform built around code repositories with a distinct open source focus.

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced the general availability of a revamped GitHub Projects that's intended to more fully integrate the project planning and development processes.
