Third-party integration

If you are already comfortable with a mature solution such as Jira or Azure Boards, you can also keep using this solution. GitHub has great integration for nearly all available products. I will show you here how to integrate with Jira and Azure Boards – but there are many more solutions in the GitHub marketplace.

Is It Simple?

Jira and Azure Boards are great products that can be highly customized. If you want to stick with your current tool, make sure that everything applies that I described in this chapter. Is it simple? Can you put all your work into it? Do you pull work from a queue? Do you have WIP limits in place? How is the flow efficiency?

You might want to consider adjusting your process and item templates to a leaner way of working. Moving to a new platform is always a good opportunity to reduce ballast. If you integrate, make sure you don’t inherit debts that slow you down.

Jira

GitHub and Jira both have an application...