Project management in GitHub

Chris beeley

Apr 9, 2026

Wny should I care about this?

• Maybe you don’t care because you’ve used [insert tool here] in the past and it works fine thank you very much
• Maybe you don’t care because your project is small
• Maybe you don’t care because your project is really big
• Maybe you were expecting a younger less broken member of the data science team- can’t help you there I’m afraid

Why should I care about this- I use other tools

• The right tool for the right job- I’m not selling you GitHub
• We’ve used other approaches too (more on which later)
• Duplication
• Lack of coherence between tools
• Skill issue

Why should I care about this- small projects

• You know what to do- but will you do it in the right order? (Agile!)
• You know what to do- but does your client agree?
• You know what to do- but will your colleague after you’re hit by a bus and off sick for 3 months?
• You know what to do- but can you easily isolate specific changes in the code made for specific purposes if something goes wrong

Why should I care about this- big projects

• Story time
• Our friend at OpenSAFELY helped us
• Rhian gave it a go
• And now we wouldn’t use anything else

Demo a small project

• I’ll make one up for ease

Show some other stuff

• Coffee and coding, in a meta type way
• We also have a GitHub project for RAP dropins

The NHP behemoth

• Show some of the stuff that we use to keep organised
• Welcome thoughts from scrummasters and other DS people

Time for discussion and questions

• Do you use these features?
• Could/ would you?
• Would you like to know more about either doing it yourself or following along with ours (for the NHP people in the audience)