Four logs on every project, one for each kind of record. Each item has an owner, dates, and a status, plus a history of who changed what, so nothing depends on meeting minutes, chat threads, or someone's inbox.
Risks, actions, issues, and decisions each keep their own log on the project, with fields that fit that kind of record. You open one log at a time, so a decision never gets squeezed into a row built for a task.
One project, four logs, opened one at a time.
What might go wrong, logged while there is still time to act. Each risk gets an owner and a mitigation plan, the working core of project risk management.
The work that has to happen and who owns it. Every action gets a due date and is tracked to done, not lost when the meeting ends.
What has already gone wrong and needs resolving now. Logged with a single owner and a severity, and tracked until it is closed.
The calls you made and why. Recorded with the rationale and the options that were weighed, so they hold up when someone asks later.
The steering committee agreed to push two modules to post go-live, a call made inside the program's portfolio governance. It made sense in the room. Now a sponsor wants the justification, and the minutes are sitting in someone's inbox.
When the decision is logged with its rationale and the options that were weighed, the answer is one record away, along with a history of who recorded it and when.
The legacy export keeps failing on custom fields. It came up in standup, again on a vendor call, and across three chat threads. Everyone knows about it. No one is clearly on the hook to fix it.
Logged as an issue, it gets a single owner, a severity, and a target date, and every change to it is recorded until it is closed.
| Action | Owner | Due | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sign off data mapping | M. Rossi | 04 Jun | Done |
| Refresh UAT environment | A. Lindqvist | 14 Jun | Overdue |
| Confirm cutover window | D. Okafor | 18 Jun | In progress |
| Draft rollback plan | P. Singh | 21 Jun | In progress |
| Brief the support team | S. Haddad | 25 Jun | Not started |
Every review meeting ends with a list of things to do. Two weeks later the real question is simple: which are finished, which are late, and who is stuck. The answer should not depend on chasing people for updates.
Logged in the Actions log, every action carries an owner, a due date, and a status the whole team can see. Overdue items stand out, so follow-up is a decision you make, not a surprise you discover.
Every RAID item carries an owner, dates, a status, and a history of who changed what and when. The record holds up months later, without anyone reconstructing it from memory.
Every risk, action, issue, and decision has someone accountable for it. Nothing sits in the log unowned.
Due and target dates on the items that need them, with overdue work easy to spot, so nothing slips quietly.
Every edit records who changed what and when, so you can trace how an item moved over the life of the project.
Risks carry mitigation, issues carry severity, decisions carry rationale. Each log asks for what that kind of record needs.
The logs live on the project itself, as part of everyday project management, not in a side spreadsheet that drifts out of date.
RAID sits in the same platform as project status reporting and portfolio reporting, so delivery context is never a separate system to chase.
A RAID log tracks a project's risks, actions, issues, and decisions. In Completix each of the four is its own log on the project, so every record has an owner, dates, and a status that fit its type.
No. Completix keeps four separate logs on each project, and you open one at a time. Each log has fields suited to its kind of record, rather than one generic list for everything.
Yes. Every RAID item keeps a change history that records who changed what and when, so you can trace how a risk, action, issue, or decision moved over time.
No. The Warning Center surfaces budget, schedule, and similar variances for human review, based on triggers you configure. It does not create RAID items, and a warning cannot be converted into a risk. Your team decides what gets logged.
A spreadsheet holds the list but not the accountability. In Completix each item lives on the project with a named owner, dates, a status, and a change history, so there is one current record instead of copies passed around by email.
RAID logs sit on the project alongside project scheduling, financials, and status reporting, so risks, actions, issues, and decisions stay next to the work they affect.
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