What is the relationship between project issues, risks, and changes and the management of each?
Issues are different from but related to risks and changes. A product defect, an assumption that proves to be unfounded, and a suggestion from a team member are examples of issues. Not all issues are negative. When a project risk is realized, if the planned resolution of the risk does not succeed, then its impact may become an issue that must be dealt with. Similarly, the resolution of an issue could result in a change request to be submitted to the change management process. But while this interplay between issues, risks, and changes is common in most projects, the work you do to manage each is different. Issue management involves recording and prioritizing, tracking, escalating, resolving, and reporting unplanned events. Fundamentally, issues are raised and subsequently resolved as part of the routine management of the project, often with no change required to the project plan. However, with the anticipation and subsequent occurrence of possible deviations from planned outcomes (risk
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