Managing project boards

Project boards on GitHub help you organize and prioritize your work. You can create project boards for specific feature work, comprehensive roadmaps, or even release checklists. With project boards, you have the flexibility to create customized workflows that suit your needs.

Project boards can be used to create customized workflows to suit your needs, like tracking and prioritizing specific feature work, comprehensive roadmaps, or even release checklists.

You can edit the title and description of an existing project board.

You can link a repository to your organization's or user account's project board.

You can configure automatic workflows to keep the status of project board cards in sync with the associated issues and pull requests.

You can set up automatic workflows to move issues and pull requests to a project board column when a specified event occurs.

You can copy a project board to quickly create a new project. Copying frequently used or highly customized project boards helps standardize your workflow.

If you've completed all the tasks in a project board or no longer need to use a project board, you can close the project board.

You can reopen a closed project board and and restart any workflow automation that was configured for the project board.

You can delete an existing project board if you no longer need access to its contents.

Repository administrators can turn off project boards for a repository if you or your team manages work differently.

Organization owners can turn off organization-wide project boards and repository project boards in an organization.

As an organization owner or project board admin, you can make a project board public or private.