ZENHUB VS. GITHUB PROJECTS
Has your team outgrown GitHub Projects?
Teams upgrade from GitHub Projects to Zenhub to get scalable, multi-repo project organization and streamlined agile processes that save developers an average of 4-6 hours per week.
8000+ teams are shipping faster with Zenhub
THE PROBLEM
GitHub Projects doesn’t work for growing teams…
We asked teams that were using GitHub Projects who made the switch to Zenhub about their experience in GitHub. Here’s what they said:
Limited organizational capabilities
GitHub Projects provides limited options for creating project hierarchy, making it harder to plan and view projects at higher or more granular levels.
Poor visibility for dev teams and stakeholders
The inability to plan cross-repo projects, get high-level roadmap views, and create project hierarchy leads to poor visibility for teams and stakeholders.
Difficult to facilitate agile frameworks
GitHub Projects does not come with built-in agile tools like Sprint Planning, Planning Poker, and Agile Reports that are critical to making agile processes sticky.
THE SOLUTION
Your team can't reach its full potential in GitHub without Zenhub
Managing projects in GitHub with Zenhub is night and day. See how powerful the Zenhub experience in GitHub is vs. GitHub’s base solution.
In GitHub Projects, project organization is limited to a single repository with no additional hierarchy options.
Manage multiple public and/or private GitHub repositories on a single board.
Add scalable project hierarchy with Projects and Epics.
AI-generated GitHub labels.
Automate issue flow between boards.
and more!
There is no option to create sprints in GitHub. Teams are forced to adapt GitHub’s “milestones” as makeshift sprints, creating a clunky process.
Zenhub uses your team’s calculated velocity to move unfinished issues and backlog issues over to your next sprint.
*Zenhub also supports GitHub Milestones in-app
No built-in issue estimation system (requires workarounds).
Conduct Planning Poker sessions asynchronously. Let devs provide issue estimates without leaving GitHub.
Only Issues (not Projects or Epics) are viewable on roadmaps, making it hard to give stakeholders high-level views.
All Issues are visible to stakeholders on the roadmap, with no option to exclude what you don’t want visible.
Get real-time project end-date predictions powered by live GitHub data.
Customize what Projects and Epics are visible on your roadmap.
Only includes basic burn-up charts to track the performance of an iteration cycle.
Auto-generated agile reports, including Burndown Charts, Cumulative Flow Charts, Control Charts, Release Reports, and Velocity Reports.
Boards
In GitHub Projects, project organization is limited to a single repository with no additional hierarchy options.
Manage multiple public and/or private GitHub repositories on a single board.
Add scalable project hierarchy with Projects and Epics.
AI-generated GitHub labels.
Automate issue flow between boards.
Sprints
Manually create and close out sprints. Automation requires the purchase of a separate product in the Atlassian Marketplace.
Zenhub uses your team’s calculated velocity to move unfinished issues and backlog issues over to your next sprint.
*Zenhub also supports GitHub Milestones in-app
Story points
No built-in issue estimation system (requires workarounds).
Conduct Planning Poker sessions asynchronously. Let devs provide issue estimates without leaving GitHub.
Roadmaps
Only Issues (not Projects or Epics) are viewable on roadmaps, making it hard to give stakeholders high-level views.
All Issues are visible to stakeholders on the roadmap, with no option to exclude what you don’t want visible.
Get real-time project end-date predictions powered by live GitHub data.
Customize what Projects and Epics are visible on your roadmap.
Reports
Only includes basic burn-up charts to track the performance of an iteration cycle.
Auto-generated agile reports, including Burndown Charts, Cumulative Flow Charts, Control Charts, Release Reports, and Velocity Reports.
Why Zenhub
Zenhub brings scalability, without getting in the way
Teams in Zenhub are enhancing project visibility across the business and adopting agile processes, all without taking developers away from GitHub.
Scalable, cross-repository project organization
Zenhub enables you to create multi-repository workspaces and create project hierarchies within Projects and Epics.
Visibility for the whole organization
Keep teams and stakeholders aligned with multi-repository workspaces and high-level project and roadmap views.
Agile processes built into GitHub
Zenhub automatically builds sprints and enables teams to participate in Planning Poker sessions asynchronously, all inside of GitHub.
Compare Value
Everything you wish GitHub Projects had
Zenhub picks up where GitHub projects limit you…
Features
Zenhub
GitHub Projects
Kanban boards
Board automation
Enhanced project hierarchy
Project hierarchy includes multi-repository Epics and Projects
No project hierarchy beyond GitHub repositories
Enhanced board capabilities
Includes:
The ability to pin and label high-priority issues, saved filter views, expanded pipeline views, issue multi-selection, and more.
Not available
Roadmaps
Available at the Workspace and Org level, populated by Epics and Projects
Only viewable at the repo level, populated by GitHub Issues
Epics
Included
Not available
Planning Poker
Included
Not available
Automated Sprint Planning
Included
Not available
Filter board by GitHub assignee, label, repo, or milestone
Included
Not available
Multi-public-or-private-repo boards
Included
Not available
AI-generated issue labels
Included
Not available
Features
Zenhub
Kanban boards
Board automation
Enhanced project hierarchy
Project hierarchy includes multi-repository Epics and Projects
Enhanced board capabilities
Includes: The ability to pin and label high-priority issues, saved filter views, expanded pipeline views, issue multi-selection, and more.
Plan projects within GitHub’s UI
Advanced, via browser extension
Roadmaps
Available at the Workspace and Org level, populated by Epics and Projects
Epics
Agile reporting suite (Burndown Charts, Velocity Reports, etc.)
Planning Poker
Automated Sprint Planning
Filter board by GitHub assignee, label, repo, or milestone
Multi-public-or-private-repo boards
AI-generated issue labels
Features
Zenhub
Jira
Features
GitHub Projects
Kanban boards
Board automation
Enhanced project hierarchy
No project hierarchy beyond GitHub repositories
Enhanced board capabilities
Plan projects within GitHub’s UI
Basic
Roadmaps
Only viewable at the repo level, populated by GitHub Issues
Agile reporting suite (Burndown Charts, Velocity Reports, etc.)
Planning Poker
Automated Sprint Planning
Filter board by GitHub assignee, label, repo, or milestone
Multi-public-or-private-repo boards
AI-generated issue labels
Customer story
See how Swagger API streamlined project management with Zenhub
ZENHUB tutorials
Moving to Zenhub from GitHub is easy – here’s how
