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GitHub Issue to Project Board

Example prompt: "When a new GitHub issue is labelled 'bug', create a Jira ticket in the 'Bug Backlog' project and post it to #engineering on Slack."

How to automate GitHub-to-project-board syncing with GloriaMundo

The Problem

Engineering teams that use GitHub for code and Jira for project management end up with a manual handoff between the two. When a bug report is filed on GitHub, someone has to notice it, create a corresponding Jira ticket with the right project, priority, and description, and then let the team know in Slack. In practice, this means bugs sit in GitHub for hours (or days) before they appear on the project board, and the Slack notification is often forgotten entirely. The disconnect slows down triage and means the team's project board does not reflect the true state of open work.

How GloriaMundo Solves It

We build a workflow that triggers whenever a new GitHub issue is created with a matching label. A conditional step checks the label — "bug", "feature-request", or whatever you configure — and routes the issue accordingly. An integration step creates a Jira ticket in the appropriate project with the issue title, description, and a link back to the GitHub issue. Another integration step posts a summary to the relevant Slack channel so the team is aware immediately. Glass Box preview shows you the Jira ticket that will be created and the Slack message that will be sent, so you can verify the mapping before it runs.

Example Workflow Steps

  1. Trigger (integration): Fires when a new GitHub issue is created.
  2. Step 1 (conditional): Check whether the issue has the "bug" label (or another target label).
  3. Step 2 (integration): Create a Jira ticket in the "Bug Backlog" project with the issue title, description, reporter, and a link to the GitHub issue.
  4. Step 3 (integration): Post a message to the #engineering Slack channel with the bug summary and links to both the GitHub issue and the new Jira ticket.

Integrations Used

  • GitHub — source of new issues that trigger the workflow
  • Jira — destination project board where tickets are created for tracking and sprint planning
  • Slack — notifies the engineering team immediately when a new bug is filed

Who This Is For

Engineering leads and DevOps teams who use GitHub for source control and issue reporting but manage sprints and backlogs in Jira. Useful for any team where the people filing bugs (QA, support, users) are not the same people managing the project board.

Time & Cost Saved

Manually creating a Jira ticket from a GitHub issue and posting to Slack takes about 3-5 minutes per issue. For a team that receives 5-10 bug reports per week, that is 15-50 minutes of administrative work. More importantly, the workflow eliminates the lag between when a bug is filed and when it appears on the project board — bugs are triaged faster, and nothing falls through the cracks.