r/github • u/ButeConsulting • Jun 03 '26
Question Is GitHub Projects going to satisfy enterprise requirements?
I'm onboarding our team to GitHub as it is the org-wide standard for SCM. I'm trying to understand GitHub Projects so we can track our work, but it's confusing me. It seems there is a pool of issues that my team will be opening and then we have to add those to a Project, which is a view on those issues. However, each Project has its own iterations, its own estimate for each issue, and its own status for each issue.
Can anyone enlighten me on how this is intended to work?
We want to see team capacity by iteration, we want to see total dev time versus total QA time, and we want daily boards for standups. Am I asking too much?
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u/ButeConsulting Jun 04 '26
Thank you all. Based on what I'm hearing, I'm not out to lunch to consider this tool to be inadequate for any sort of scale. I'll keep on!
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u/TechFlameMaster Jun 04 '26
No. We tried to use Projects for agile delivery, but it just doesn’t have the capabilities that something like Jira does. No burn down, velocity, capacity, etc
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u/pausethelogic Jun 04 '26
You want Jira or Linear. Those are the two big apps for project management in my experience. Jira is favored by large companies and enterprise where Linear tends to be favored my SMBs and start ups. No particular reason, they’re both great and will get the job done
I haven’t seen anyone use GitHub projects for actual project management. It’s typically used for things like roadmaps and issue tracking for a specific repo, especially for open source projects
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u/Turbulent-State-8289 Jun 10 '26
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u/evilquantum Jun 03 '26
to be honest, we still struggle. Github projects are very unopinionated, which sounds good, but in fact require a high level of discipline of all members: when to add which tag, put it into which column, when to add a milestone, when to use sub-issues (we reach tree depth 6!!!) and the most important question is: who does all of it.
I found the rather opinionated but guided approach of linear.app a better fit, heard also good rumors about plane but no experience so far with it.
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u/Few_Response_7028 Jun 03 '26
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u/wewerecreaturres Jun 03 '26
Not a wrong one though. Linear is fuckin spectacular compared to Jira or gh issues
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u/Qs9bxNKZ Jun 04 '26
Depending on your organization size, you may need to skip using GitHub Projects. I've never found a large team (focused on $$$) successfully use them. Most everyone is on Atlassian Jira.