If your team did a good job writing your Development Strategy, setting up your Project Board should be easy - pretty much copy-pasting.
Create one label for each must have user story and for each type of task.
You can always create new labels during development, so no worries if you forget one now.
Create one issue for each task in your Development Strategy. A task in your Dev Strategy is a single bullet point. Be sure each issue has:
- labels to tell what types of work are included in this task
- a milestone to know where the issue belongs in the timeline of development
- a checklist to track your progress on this task
Finally, create your project board and add these columns:
- TODO: Claimed and unclaimed issues that no one is actively working on.
- DOING Tasks someone is actively working on. Use the
help-wantedlabel in this column if you are blocked. - READY FOR REVIEW: Issues with a linked PR to review. If changes are requested you can move the issue back to Todo or Doing.
- NEEDS REVISION: PRs that were reviewed and are not ready to merge. If this is your PR you can move it back to Doing when you're ready to fix it.
- DONE: Issues that have been closed for any reason including: the linked PR was merged, the discussion has finished, or the task is no longer necessary.
When your columns are ready, move all of your issues into the Todo column and you're ready to go!