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Actions vs. Tasks

What are they, and what's the difference?

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Written by Jared Elliott
Updated over a year ago

You might notice we jump back and forth between the terms "tasks" and "actions" in our training and support material.

But these are not the same thing!


Actions

Actions is a blanket term for all the following items you can manage in O3:

  • Tasks - action items identified in meetings, completed outside of them

  • Constraints - items that affect the delivery of a work package, document, or drawing

  • Approvals - reviews to be completed before an entity can transition to the next status

  • Deliverables - items to be delivered at various stages of a project, are not subject to a formal approval process

  • Execution Tasks - track the progress of a work package

In short, all tasks are actions, but not all actions are tasks.


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