Video Guide:
Everything you need to know to create, track, and manage your Issues with Strety
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What Are Issues?
Issues represent problems, ideas, or opportunities that typically require input from others in order to be resolved. An example of an Issue could be an obstacle for someone on the team, a broken system, a missing step in a process, a customer complaint, or an employee grumbling
Issue Types
Short-term Issues are for things you plan to resolve this quarter. Consider these Issues you are currently trying to resolve
Long-term Issues are things you need to resolve, but may not be ready to tackle yet. Think of these as a parking lot for Issues
How to Create Issues
Create new Issues from the Quick Create or a Team or Person's Issue page
Give your Issue a Name, Description, assign a Primary Space, assign an Owner, Priority (if needed), Type, Category (if needed), and add any Subscribers (if needed)
When adding a new Issue, the creator & owner are the only people notified by default. We recommend either subscribing any additional people to the Issue or @ mentioning them in the description. This should allow any relevant parties an opportunity to review the Issue in preparation for your next meeting, hopefully leading to less time spent getting everyone up to speed and more thoughtful, dialed-in discussion
Creating Issues from Other Items
While running your L10, team, & 1x1 agendas, you may encounter a problem you want to proactively address - like an off-track Rock, a Metric that's missed its target, or a To Do that's been open for too many weeks - but you may not know exactly what's needed to course correct.
We recommend creating an Issue directly from the problem item, providing an opportunity for a more collaborative, contextual discussion as you work through a proper response & resolution.
To create an Issue from an existing item, click the 3-dot menu outside the item...
Or, click into the item and select Create
Once the Issue is created, you can access the Related To link that will show you the origin item the Issue is linked to
You can also track all Issues created from an item within it's modal, too
How to Resolve Issues
When completing an Issue, don't just close it out, add Resolution Notes that detail what decisions were made to solve it.
Resolution Notes are also included in meeting summary emails, so we encourage you to add Resolution Notes during your meetings, not after
Resolution Notes are not only helpful in real-time, informing everyone of decisions & next steps, they also provides a useful benefit when looking back at Issues, adding valuable context for folks preparing for performance reviews or quarterly/annual planning meetings later in the year
Issues Best Practices: Team Issues vs 1x1 Issues
An Issue must always have a Primary Space. It can be a Team or a Person Space. Click here to read more on Strety's Team & Person Spaces
Team Issues
Issues can only be assigned to a single a Team Space. Upon creation, only the creator and owner of the Issue will be notified - you can subscribe others during creation if you'd like to notify anyone else. Once created, all members of the Primary Space will have visibility into the Issue.
Private Issues (for 1x1s topics)
Issues can also be added privately to a Person Space, where they can serve as topics in 1x1 agendas. For more on 1x1 agendas, check out this article: Strety 1x1s | Complete Guide
We recommend creating Personal Issues to discuss any one-off or ad-hoc topics that represent questions or challenges. Why? Because you gain the benefit of having an option to add Resolution Notes and/or assigning linked To Dos to the Issue, increasing accountability & context to the Issue
In the above screenshot, we show how to create a Personal Issue by assigning it to a Person Space (rather than a team). By assigning it to the someone's Person Space, it allows it to be discussed privately in the Issues section of the 1x1 agenda until resolved
How to Send Issues to Other Teams
Certain Issues may require another team's involvement to fully resolve it. In these cases, Strety makes it incredibly easy to send the issue elsewhere and remain informed of any new activity or changes to it's status.
To send an Issue to another team, open the issue and click the Send to Other Team action. Below you see an Issue that began on the Leadership team that we now want to send to the Success team to resolve
Issues that are sent from other teams have a tag that clearly identified where it came from:
To review the current status of any Issue(s) sent to other teams, click the Sent to other teams filter
Click into the Issue to see whether the Issue has been resolved + any commentary and/or resolution notes added
How to Merge issues
Have you ever added an Issue only to see there is already one (or multiple) pertaining to the same root issue? Strety makes it easy for you to merge issues, allowing your team to easily combine fragmented context and reduce duplicative resolution efforts
To merge issues, open the Issue you'd like to merge into another, click Merge Issue, select which Issue you'd like to merge it with, and click Merge
The newly merged Issue will show a Related To link, allowing you to view details from any merged Issue(s)
Issue Reporting
Check out our Pulse Report for more insights & summaries of all Issues you have visibility into including:
Issues Added & Resolved: A weekly breakdown of all added & resolved Issues per Team. A great way to look back, especially after a busy week or some time off!
Teams Summary: A quick look at the total number of Issues added & resolved + the # of Issues resolved in each meeting completed within the filtered date range