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I am a project manager and appx. 60-80% of my actions are delegated. I use client reports with up to date issue logs (spreadsheet format - see column headers below) to track all significant project issues and associated actions. Clients need to be updated with the following information on a regular (typically weekly basis):

Issue ID
"Date Identified"
Identified by
Issue Grouping
Risk / Issue Description
Impact Summary
Comments
Next Action Steps
Priority
Next Action By
Next Action Due Date
Expected Completion Date
Delay (weeks)
Current Status
Escalation Required to Resolve?
Actual Resolution Date


Typically I have 150+ project issues that I am tracking, with typically 2 or 3 actions for each. To use TR to track all these issues and actions would be a lot of "overhead". So to avoid this I enter all my thoughts into TR, but when I am processing a thought related to the issue log, I amend the spreadsheet at the same time (usually 2 min rule applies anyway). If a personal action results then I add this to TR in the outline view.

Project managers using GTD typically have two systems like I do, GTD for personal actions and another for project management, life would be much simpler for Project Managers like myself who use GTD if there was an app that combined both systems.

TR could bridge this gap if the reporting was presentation standard and much more filterable, and each task had fields for the above issue log headings given above (some of them are already there in another guise).

I post this not really hoping for Jeremy and Claire to revise TR because I know they have limited resource and this would be a major revision (and pobably not used by the core TR user base) - but in the hope that open source developers may be inspired to take up the cause and produce a GTD app that project managers will pay handsomely to use so as to produce industry standard client reports - believe me there are no GTD apps out there that can do this - it is a huge and lucrative market niche that is lying untapped!

Any thoughts?

Derek.

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