Audits, constructions, maintenance work, IT implementations or other spontaneous initiatives are easily administrable through a modern centralised web-application. Data entry, planning, notification, analysis, reporting and evaluation are handled from one application. Program or project manager can concentrate on the management instead of the data and monitor the progress online. Reminders or escalations are triggered by the system. All tasks, steps and statuses are logged in the database and therefore archived with the respective audit trail.

Measures, activities, tasks and their results are distributed under geographical or organisational aspects, so that everybody involved receives the relevant information and all modifications on a need to know-basis. Decision-makers receive the results timely and online. The separate reporting module allows to evaluate all activities costs, savings under aspects of time, location, business unit or partner, product, ….

Once the project plan is set, the execution or implementation follows task by task respecting the interdependencies like task A can only start/end after task B started/ended. A GANT-chart helps stakeholders and the project manager to monitor the progress. Overdue, -budget or –effort tasks according to the plan can be highlighted.

Change management can be performed baselining the original project plan. The new, modified or eliminated tasks are logged.

Along with comment, evidence and completion notice, the user can record his effort (working hours) and cost. Budget overruns can hence be detected by the project management early.

co_issues is capable to run many projects in parallel and bind them into a program or portfolio. Common KPIs make the comparable. However, the nature/content of the projects must be similar. Otherwise, the ratio regarding budget overrun, overdue, progress as percentage of completion has a limited meaning.