CHALLENGE 5: UNCLEAR RISKS AND ISSUES
It is important for a project manager to track project issues, risks, assumptions and dependencies. Sometimes it is very challenging for a project manager to keep them up to date, as well as log them in the appropriate place. It is a very common problem to have the project issues and risks logged/reported interchangeably. As they are reported at a senior management level, it generally gets escalated, and if senior management find them wrong, it would not be well received.
A ‘project issue’ is a concern, or request, raised by any stakeholder or team member, that needs to be addressed, either immediately or during the project. As such there can be many different flavours of project issues:
- General issue
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