Category Archives: Issue Management

Excuses, Reasons and Responsibility

Seth Godin recently wrote an excellent blog called Looking for the right excuse. He makes the point that we know a project is going wrong when we start mentally looking for an excuse and he goes on to say Amazingly, … Continue reading

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Issue Management 2: Eight Disciplines

In Part 1, I took up the challenge to tackle issue management in a way that tackles one reader’s dismay at issues being “incorrectly logged, escalated, allocated severity, given owners, tracked, date and time committed, and closed properly”. Now we … Continue reading

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Issue Management 1: A Matter of Discipline

I have been challenged to write about issue management by a former colleague who says that he sees so many examples of how project issues (mostly linked to large ERP projects) are “incorrectly logged, escalated, allocated severity, given owners, tracked, … Continue reading

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