Do you want a heart attack? How about a mental breakdown? Thought not! Use the free version of Github to bring clarity and sanity to your web project process. I’m begging you!
It’s amazing how many developers, website managers and other stakeholders do ZERO project management (long-winded email threads and endless scrolling WhatsApp banter don’t count). 😫
The problem seems to be worse in the freelancing world. In this environment, the ability to have some kind of self-imposed structure around priorities and time management goes out the window.
In the worst cases (and I’ve experienced this) clients or associates straight up refuse to have anything to do with project management because “they don’t understand technical things.”
Github Projects: Task Management Made Easier
Github is simpler than you think. Not only is it free at a basic level, it will save time, contribute to cost efficiency, lessen the likelihood of burnout and keep stakeholders literally on the same page.
Github Projects has a customisable kanban board that can be linked to a repository of development tasks. 👇
This way, there’s some joined up thinking between developers and project managers.
Instead of handing over work to them and saying “let me know when it’s done!”, you would instead treat each item you created like a social media status, but with specific labels, tags and other info that can be filtered.
Everyone involved in any given task can comment and update each other on the progress. There’s accountability and responsibility. 🧐
Items can be dragged and dropped into different sections of the kanban board according to what stage the work is at. If an item actually needs to become a development task, the item in question will be converted into something called an “Issue”, which then populates the Github repository associated with the Github Project. 🚧
Even if you’re not doing any development tasks, and you just need a high-level overview of what is going on with a project, use Github. It’s better than Trello and certainly p*sses all over Jira. 💪
Plan Your Work Properly… Please!
Github Projects is a simple way of creating a workflow that lets everyone see which bugs, problems, tasks (or just thoughts/ideas) have been logged as part of a web project, and what then happens with each of these bits of information. 📋💻
Any half-decent project manager should be insisting on this approach. No one wants to be stuck in communication hell, especially since developers often go AWOL and stop answering messages.
It’s aggravating, and if you’re anything like me, you’re really quite keen to avoid those kinds of scenarios because all it does is make everyone miserable.
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