Webcast • Github for Project Management

(woman) Hello there everyone,

we're about one minute before the start
of our webinar,

and we'd like to do a quick audio check,
just to make sure everyone can hear us ok.

So, I have put a poll up on the screen

about our audio levels,
if you could please just let us know.

(man) Okay.

(woman) Great. It looks like we
are in good shape then for our audio.

So we are right at 12:00,
and we will go ahead and get started.

First up, I'd like to introduce myself,
my name is Cynthia Rich.

I am a trainer with GitHub
and I am joined today by Allen Smith,

another trainer...
I'm from GitHub

and we're going to trade off today
as we go through this topic

and share some of our relevant
experience with you.

Today's session is about project
management and how we use GitHub

to manage projects within GitHub.

So really quick, just so we know who
we have on the phone with us,

on the webinar with us, excuse me,

a little more about you,
I've put a poll up to tell us

a little bit about your project
management experience.

While you're doing that
I'm going to tell you

a little bit about
what we hope to accomplish today.

So during today's webinar
we'd like to share with you

some of the best practices
that we've found

for managing projects using
the GitHub architecture.

So we as a company manage
all of our projects within this platform

and we store all of our conversations,
communication, everything goes here,

and so we want to share with you
the secrets that we use

to make this effective and to ensure
that we can communicate effectively

and collaboratively across our team.

So it looks like, okay great...

So it looks like we have a good split
of folks who do alot of project management

and then some folks who
are interested in the topic.

If you have someone on your team
that you'd like to share this webcast with

we will be recording this and we'll send
you a link after we finish up.

So I'm gonna go ahead and close the poll.

And, I'd like to jump right in and show
you what we're going to accomplish today.

The project we've set up that we'd like
to show you today

is a very basic GitHub Pages page.

Now if you're not familiar
with GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages is our,
essentially free web hosting platform.

It allows you to connect
your GitHub repository directly

to this GitHub Pages and set up
a project webpage,

something that you can communicate
with the outside world about your project.

So again, these are free to set up.

There are instructions on this page
we're showing you here pages.github.com

You can go there and it'll tell you
everything you need to know for how

to set up your repository
to communicate with this page.

The page that we have set up
is actually a little cookbook

So let's go back over,
and if you'll, there we go...

Our Project Management Cookbook

and you can see there this is
a really simple page

just something we set up for example sake

with a few links to some different recipes

hopefully this isn't lunch time
for everyone,

we'll all be hungry when we get done.

But like I said,
a really, really simple page

'cause what we really want to show you
is what's under the hood,

or what's behind the scenes that's
helping us to manage this project.

So, as you know, everything within GitHub
is managed within a repository

and that repository is the collection
of everything relating to your project.

So your project files, your project
communications, all of the metrics

involving your project.

Everything within your project is stored
in this repository.

Now in order to do some of the things
that we are going to show you today,

we had to make a few assumptions,

and one of those is that you're an owner
on the repository that you're working on.

So if you're not an owner
on the repository

there may be a few things
we're gonna show you along the way

that you won't be able to do

and so you might want to look in to
either changing your permissions level

or how to work out getting some of these
tasks accomplished

with someone that has
the appropriate permissions.