
Welcome to the course
Why Issue Logs are so wildly successful.
If you're looking for something theoretical, then this is not a good fit. Get ready to get your hands dirty.
Review of each column for the issue log.
Reason to keep an ID column with unique numbers.
Detailed walk through of the status column in order to drive prioritization and reporting.
Overview of naming convention and level of detail for the description.
How to leverage raided by and owned by column for accountability.
Used data stamping to provide narrative around velocity (or lack thereof).
MOST IMPORTANT. If you watch only one lecture, make it this one. Updates are the magic of issue logs.
Go deeper on your filtering and reporting with a category column.
Use your clean status column to drive reporting.
Leverage your pivot table to generate simple graphs or pictures for reporting.
Clarity, Action, Documentation, Accountability, Reportable
One last example of how the Issue Log is truly magic.
Issue Log Magic is a course designed to give you one of the most effective and portable tools in any Project Managers Toolkit. All of us are called to be a project manager (Ad Hoc PM) at one time or another. The Magic of an issue log is that anyone, at anytime, can use this tool to drive project results.
Issue logs force organizational clarity and alignment. With clarity and agreement of the issues, you can assign accountability to propel action against the issues. If the issue log is setup well, they can, and should be used to document the history of actions and ultimately allow you to do snapshot reporting with charts and graphs as needed.
The fundamental skill of setting up and driving an issue log is one of the most formidable tools available to a new or current project manager. New project managers will enjoy practicing using this new tool to keep people accountable in an objective work oriented way. Current project managers will enjoy this course to validate their skill set, pick up new tips, and get re-motivated to tackle the hard issues.
When you are completed with this course, you will be confident in setting up an issue log, running and updating it real time, and driving reporting from it.