Abstract
An issue is often treated as a risk in executing a real project, though the definition of an issue and a risk is different. When issues are recognized, they are also viewed from a point of difficulty to achieve the target specification or to resolve them by the due date. If the issues seem not be resolved by the due date, they are considered as a risk. This is the reason why an issue is often considered as a risk. A term, an important issue, is defined in this paper as an issue with a difficulty to be resolved by the due date. This paper describes that it is very effective for the progress management to track the status and the progress mainly with the important issue tracking list in conjunction with the normal issue tracking list and the risk tracking list.
