Creating a personal access token will give the plugins the ability to access the code pushed to GitHub and create the necessary hooks to get notifications when new commits and pull requests occur. In order to create the token, use the following steps:

1. Open https://github.com/settings/tokens in your browser.
2. Click on Generate new token.
3. Give it a descriptive name like Effective DevOps with AWS Jenkins.
4. Select the scopes repo, admin:repo_hook and admin:org_hook.
5. Click on Generate token.
6. This brings you back to the main token page. Save the token generated. We will need it in a couple of steps' time.