Product teams typically use NEXT in combination with a suite of other tools to manage their day-to-day work. They use NEXT for discovery, Slack for communication, Productboard for prioritizing ideas and Github (or Zendesk) as a backlog management tool, etc. Ensuring these tools integrate smoothly is crucial for an optimal experience.
This article delves into the specifics of our Github integration.
Why Integrate with Github?
Our NEXT x Github integration facilitates the direct transfer of highlights, chats, and clusters into your backlog, allowing for the effortless transformation of insights into backlog items. Creating a Github ticket (like a User Story or Bug) from NEXT automatically links to the supporting evidence (recordings and highlights), enabling your team to trace Github items back to their origins.
Example Use Cases
Sharing Chat Responses: Use NEXT's AI to generate bug reports, tickets, user stories, epics, etc., from discovery highlights and share them directly with Github.
Sharing Highlights: For manual ticket writing in Github, sharing highlights directly ensures the evidence remains connected, enriching the Github ticket with a link to the video clip for easy reference.
Sharing Clusters: Share significant items (draft user stories, epics) along with their supporting evidence to Github with a single click, streamlining the process of enriching your backlog.
How to set up the Github x NEXT integration
Github is connected on a teamspace-level, and not to your personal NEXT account. Follow these steps to set up a connection:
Log in to NEXT
Open the teamspace with which you want to connect Github
Click on the options button [...] next to your teamspace name (top menu)
Click "Sharing" from the dropdown
In the dialog that appears, choose Github from the dropdown in the left upper corner
Give the integration a name (e.g. Github - User Story)
Enter repository URL of your Github organization – more information
Click Save
You're now ready to share to Github! Navigate to an item you wish to share (e.g. highlight, chat or cluster), click the Share button and pick Github from the dropdown with share option.
⚠️ Important note: you can set up multiple Github integrations for different repositories in Github. For example, you can set up an integration for backlog items, tasks, epics, etc. We recommend naming the integration accordingly, so that once you share something to Github, you can easily identify the repository to which you're sharing
👋 In case you're struggling to set it up correctly, please reach out to our support team via the pink bubble in the bottom right or send us an email at support@nextapp.co. We'll help you further!