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Best practices for managing issues and projects

Best practices for managing issues and projects - GitHub Tutorial

From the course: GitHub Issues and Projects for Teams

Best practices for managing issues and projects

- [Speaker] There are some rules of thumb to best manage issues and projects in the most efficient manner to the benefit of your team. As there is an importance, both being an effective maintainer and contributor. It is extremely important to keep these in mind, as your team builds out a project and its issues, so things can run as smoothly as possible, while laying down a functional framework for longevity in a project. Let's first look at issues. Be as descriptive as possible in titles. Titles are the first thing you and your team members will see when viewing issues. So it's important that they relay the correct message. However, remember to keep it short and simple. Titles should only contain enough information to understand it from a brief glimpse. Any additional information can go into the description of the issue. One issue per issue. As you develop and become more comfortable in your skills to create issues…

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