Creating a team

Only organization owners and maintainers of a parent team can create a new child team under a parent. Owners can also restrict creation permissions for all teams in an organization. For more information, see "Setting team creation permissions in your organization."

1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.

   

2. On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.

   

3. Under your organization name, click Teams.

   

4. On the right side of the Teams tab, click New team.

   

5. Under "Create new team", type the name for your new team.

   

6. Optionally, in the "Description" field, type a description of the team.

   

7. Optionally, if you're creating a child team, use the drop-down menu to choose a parent team for your new team.

   

8. Decide whether the team will be visible or secret.

   

9. Click Create team.

10. Optionally, give the team access to organization repositories.

Further reading

• "About teams"
• "Changing team visibility"
• "Moving a team in your organization's hierarchy"