Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Sixth Edition

Building and Maintaining the Issues Log

The Issues Log is a dynamic document that contains all of the problems that have arisen during the course of the project and have not yet been resolved. The resolution of these problems is important to the successful continuation of the project. The Issues Log contains the following information:

• ID number
• Date logged
• Description of the problem
• Impact if not resolved
• The problem owner
• Action to be taken
• Status
• Outcome

If a Risk Log is maintained, it is often integrated into the Issues Log. At each project status or team meeting, the Issues Log is reviewed and updated.