Tracking Stories in GitHub and Monday

Reference Link

This guide assumes you are using the standard Agile Scrum board supplied by Monday with views added for Stories/Tasks. It also assumes you already have integrated GitHub into your Monday instance.

1. Start by creating a task in Monday.
   
2. Click the "Expand Task/Story" double arrow icon to pop out the description. You can also click on the story itself.
   
3. Click the "Git UI" tab to view
   
4. Copy the suggested command to check out a branch in Git. The title of the branch will be something like <name of task/story>-<item ID>.
   

Tip

The item ID value is automatically generated by Monday and attached to this task/story. The value just has to be mentioned somewhere in the name of the branch for Monday to track it, but the title of the branch is flexible otherwise. For example, I could add my initials and type of the task/story as follows: gca/feature/<name of task/story>-<item ID>.

The Item ID can be mentioned in:

• Branch name
• Commit messages
• PR title/description
• Merge description

for tracking to appear in Monday.

Tracking also works across repositories. So if you use the item ID anywhere in the above items, it'll show up on Monday.

1. Check out the branch in your IDE/terminal or on GitHub
   
   
2. Navigate back to Monday and the Git UI tab to see if things are being tracked correctly. You should see that the branch is now available to view!