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Issues & Risks

Effective issues management is a cornerstone of every project management plan. . .

How do you drive individual accountability?  How do you drive issues ownership?  More importantly, how do you change from a culture that tracks issues, and transform into a proactive organization that proactively resolves issues on a timely basis?

With The Project Network™, issues tracking evolves into Issue Management.  Issue Management is more than simply logging and assigning an issue.  Your simple issues list becomes a dynamic management tool with the power of The Project Network's Issues Management.

Issues with Next Steps

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Multivariate, complex issues are broken down into manageable Next Steps.  These Next Steps can be tracked and managed as an issue is resolved.  Next Steps have full tracking and resolution functionality much like an issue including a Target Date, Status, Owner and Resolution.

The Project Network's Issues Management is flexible enough to use for technical and non-technical projects alike: systems implementations, events planning, large document publication, construction projects and more!

 

Benefits

  • Management and entire team maintain constant visibility to major issues and their status - driving coordinated work to a timely solution – issues are no longer stand-alone
  • Timely resolution of outstanding issues
  • Keeps problems on the radar screen
  • Drive individual accountability for issue resolution
  • Notifications chain drives individual accountability for issue resolution - Missed dates trigger a reminder, and reminders are escalated up the management chain until issue is resolved
  • Easily track multiple paths for issue resolutions
  • Issue history retained for future planning of similar initiatives

Features

  • Document detailed descriptions, individual assignments and resolutions
  • Track issues from discovery through resolution
  • Real-time, comprehensive action plans available to all team members
  • Analyze (and continuously re-evaluate) the impact of issues and risks through company-specific assessments
  • Automate warnings as due date nears/passes through email/visual indicators
  • Tie issues and risks to documentation, impacted tasks and milestones, and status reports
  • Focus management and planning through separation of issues and risks