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Describe GitHub projects

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Describe GitHub projects

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- [Instructor] GitHub Projects is a GitHub feature that gives us project management tools that are integrated deeply within GitHub Issues, and I would go on from there with PRs, et cetera, et cetera, for tracking and organizing work. This is a big deal. I remember GitHub much earlier in its lifecycle when it was principally just cloud-based Git repositories, and it's been really delightful the additional functionality areas that are coming out, the key features, speaking of which, this is ultimately what we're responsible for on our GitHub Foundation Certification Exam, is that any automation we want to put into our project lifecycle can be fully automated via workflows, as we've previously discussed. A nice way to think about GitHub Projects at a very ground level view is it's like a spreadsheet, specifically like a Microsoft Excel workbook that consists of multiple tabs, and you can, like you can in any database system, create custom fields to track project-specific data. You've got…

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