Project planning for developers
Create issues, break them into tasks, track relationships, add custom fields, and have conversations. Visualize large projects as tables, boards, or roadmaps, and automate everything with code.
Bored of boards?
Switch to tables and roadmaps.
Built like a spreadsheet, project tables give you a live workspace to filter, sort, and group issues and pull requests. Tailor them to your needs with custom fields and saved views, then visualize your project with roadmaps.
Move conversations forward
Express ideas with GitHub Flavored Markdown, mention contributors, react with emoji, clarify with attachments, and see references from commits, pull requests, releases, and deploys. Coordinate by assigning contributors and teams, or by adding them to milestones and projects. All in a single timeline.
- Upload and attach videos to comments
- Dive into work faster with issue forms and templates
The latest report from our testers is in and our sprite animations are a little off. Good news is not by much, so we should be able to squeeze this into our current sprint.
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@grrretel to share beta tester report
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@cameronfoxly has a video to share showing before and after
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@chiedo to push the change and get the team reviewing
We just published the report—see octoarcade/testers#323 👉
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- Upload and attach videos to comments
- Dive into work faster with issue forms and templates
Thanks @keisaacson! Here’s a video walkthrough showing the proposed changes.
Create views
for how you work
Save views for sprints, backlogs, teams, or releases. Rank, group, sort, slice and filter to suit the occasion. Create swimlanes, share templates and set work in progress limits.
Work at keyboard speed
No mouse? No problem. Every action you can take with the mouse has a keyboard shortcut or command. Filter, sort, group, and assign issues. Your hands never leave the keyboard.
Manage work automatically
Accelerate your project planning with workflows. Automatically triage issues, set values for custom fields, and auto add or archive issues.
Issues, where you need them
Issues can be viewed, created, and managed in your browser, your favorite terminal, or on your phone or tablet.
GitHub CLI
View, update, and create issues without ever leaving your terminal.
GitHub Mobile
Create and manage issues on the go with our native iOS and Android mobile apps.
“ The new planning and tracking functionality keeps my project management close to my code. I no longer find myself needing to reach for spreadsheets or 3P tools which go stale instantly.Dan Godfrey Development Manager
Frequently asked questions
What is GitHub Issues?
We all need a way to plan our work, track issues, and discuss the things we build. Our answer to this universal question is GitHub Issues, and it’s built-in to every repository. GitHub’s issue tracking is unique because of our focus on simplicity, references, and elegant formatting.
With GitHub Issues, you can express ideas with GitHub Flavored Markdown, assign and mention contributors, react with emojis, clarify with attachments and videos, plus reference code like commits, pull requests, and deploys. With task lists, you can break big issues into tasks, further organize your work with milestones and labels, and track relationships and dependencies.
We built GitHub Issues for developers. It is simple, adaptable, and powerful.
What are Projects?
As teams and projects grow, how we work evolves. Tools that hard-code a methodology are too specific and rigid to adapt to any moment. Often, we find ourselves creating a spreadsheet or pulling out a notepad to have the space to think. Then our planning is disconnected from where the work happens.
The new Projects connect your planning directly to the work your teams are doing and flexibly adapt to whatever your team needs at any point. Built like a spreadsheet, project tables give you a live canvas to filter, sort, and group issues and pull requests. 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.
Can I update existing Projects to use the new capabilities?
Yes. You can migrate your existing Projects (classic) to the new GitHub Projects through a new feature preview.
How it works:
- We’ll create a new project and copy all of the data from your existing project (classic) board to the new one.
- Once the data is copied, you can use the new project with all the new capabilities.
- Once the new project is ready, we will prompt you to close your “old” project, as the old project is not kept in sync.
What plans have access to Projects?
All users have access to the free tier of GitHub Issues and Projects. For more information about paid tiers, see our pricing page.
Historical charts are available for all Enterprise organizations and are currently in Preview for organizations on Team plans.**
**Subject to change as we add future capabilities.
Will the new Projects experience be available in GitHub Enterprise Server?
Yes! GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) support follows our regular cadence of one to two quarters before enabling the on-premises functionality.