{"id":17545,"date":"2019-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/project-management-issue-tracking\/"},"modified":"2019-09-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:00:00","slug":"project-management-issue-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/project-management-issue-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Project management issue tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the real world of project management <\/a>— the one where waterfall diagrams don’t always fall, and critical paths aren’t always critical — I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that issue management skills determine project success as much as anything else. Show me a good project manager<\/a>, and I’ll show you a good issue manager.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that same thinking doesn’t apply to all project management software solutions. Not all project management software<\/a> offers great issue tracking solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, some project management software solutions that do a good job on some aspects of managing projects— such as resource tracking, scheduling, reporting and so on — don’t necessarily have built-in issue tracking that’s worthy of applause. Ironically, some of them actually create more issues, and cause project managers to scream in frustration.<\/p>\n

That’s why it’s critical – and there’s really no other word for it – to ensure that the issue tracker in your project management software solution HELPS instead of HARMS.<\/p>\n

And the simplest way to ensure that it HELPS is to choose software that lets you:<\/p>\n