Covalent Actions - progress tracking action plans and projects

Covalent Actions is designed to fill the gap between overly feature-rich and complex project management software and admin-intensive, inflexible spreadsheets. In fact, the more customers use Actions, the more uses they find for it - improvement plans, service plans, staff appraisal tasks, service and corporate plans.

Proactively manage actions against deadlines. Covalent records completion due dates for all actions and milestones, then tracks progress with traffic-lighting against these deadlines. Covalent reminds action owners when deadlines are approaching, saving massive effort and time continually chasing people for status updates.
Manage a portfolio of projects. Track progress of a projects portfolio at a glance with Covalent action Timeline. Covalent calculates what percentage complete each project is based on progress of sub-actions and milestones.
Assess progress of your corporate goals. Align actions to corporate priorities and objectives so you can track progress with strategy execution.

Action updating

Log action progress in terms of % complete by using the slider bar control. Enter progress updates and commentary in the tabular updates page which displays just those actions for which the user has responsibility.

Milestones & Gantt Chart

Collapse actions into milestones to simplify the process of updating. Review progress for all projects managed by Covalent on the action Timeline so you can quickly see how all are doing in one view.

Progress tracking

Record the original and current due dates for action completion, planned and actual start dates, and completed date. Review action status with traffic lighting relative to due date; red indicates an overdue action and green tick a completed action.

User engagement

Reinforce lines of accountability by assigning each action to nominated users, at different levels of responsibility. Automatically email update reminders and status change alerts (e.g. green to red) to the appropriate department or person.

Covalent has played a key role in driving performance improvement through the Actions Tracking and Performance Improvement Group - poor performing areas are easily identified and alerts sent to the appropriate officer. Covalent has become the corporate and comprehensive focal point for performance and management information.

We now do all our reporting of actions on Covalent so every manager knows what they've got to do. In particular, we can now easily track progress on action plans and key projects to quickly identify potential problem areas.