02-Projects.md

🔨 Hands-on: GitHub Projects

In his hands-on lab you will practice working with GitHub projects. The exercise cosists of the following parts:

• Working with the backlog
• Working with boards
• Workflows

Working with the backlog

1. Go to your GitHub profile | Projects and click Create project
2. Start with a normal table and give the project a name (i.e., GitHub Bootcamp)
3. In this repository, go to Projects and add the project you just created
4. Display the hidden Labelsfield
5. Add a new Single Select named Level with the values Epic, Feature, Story, and Task
6. Add a number field Effort
7. Add an iteration field Sprint with a two week cadence
8. Add an iteration field Quarter with a 12 week cadence
9. Add your existing issues with the correct levels and some other sample data
10. Group the backlog by level and safe the view.

Solution

See this example

Working with boards

1. Create a Kanban Board filtered by level:Feature and safe it as Feature Board
2. Create a Kanban Board filtered by level:story and change the column field to sprint. Safe the view as Sprints
3. Create a Kanban Board filtered by -level:story and change the colun view to Quarter. Safe the view as Planning.

Solution

• Feature Board
• Sprints
• Planning

Workflows

1. Enable all the default workflows
2. Transition some issues and see how the status changes.

Summary

In his hands-on lab you have practiced working with GitHub projects.

Now that you have finished this exercise, you can continue and learn to collaborate on code.