Issue tracking is a challenge by itself.

It makes each team member be focused on their issue. Also, each team member needs to be educated about terminologies. In cross-functional teams, this is time-consuming and ineffective. Some of the other challenges that come from that are:

Number of unnecessary issues in issue tracking

When there is no structured documentation, the team members can overlook some issues or their solutions. Keeping all the bug’s information in one place enables you to create better estimates. It also combines real-time updates in a more effective way.

Managing cross-functional teams

Cross-functional teams make around 60% of all project management teams. Yet, issue tracking is one of the biggest challenges in cross-functional teams. This means that most of them struggle with mixing assignments and resources.

No Big Picture Between Issues

Many team members work on many issues. If they communicate with each other via Slack or email, visibility of information is lost. Lack of transparency makes the whole team lose connection with the bigger picture.

THAT IS WHY:

A new approach that provides the solution is feature tracking. Instead of issue tracking, feature tracking focus on the big picture. Feature tracking is the process of updating the progress of features in every discipline included in the project. That means that it provides managing every member’s tasks inside of a common goal.

Feature tracking makes hand-over tasks easy and eventually delivers the feature. Also, cross-functional collaboration doesn’t need a special setup.

A tool that provides feature tracking is JadeALM. It has a single source of truth that makes maintaining requirements simple.