Practical Practices
for Timely Status Reporting
Status Reporting: Don't Leave Status to Chance
Project managers walk a fine line when it comes to requesting (and actually getting)
status reports* from team members. On one hand, status reporting procedures should not be too
cumbersome or intrusive. Project staff may come to resent the attention, and the perceived lack
of trust and confidence. On the other hand, no project manager can afford to be
taken
by surprise by issues and problems that go unreported (or
under-reported). And the quality and quantity of that feedback cannot
be left to chance. Learn how to get
the status information you want out of the status reports you need.
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*Status Reporting Note: Status reporting plays a dual role in the fast track management process. Status reporting procedures are planned and documented in the governance phase, and then, based on those procedures, status reports are generated, submitted and reviewed as part of the oversight phase.
About Project Status Reporting:
Status reporting is the process by which project "progress" information
is shared with project stakeholders. As a process, it's also used to track
tasks, deliverables and decisions, and to make mid-project course corrections.
Status reporting is covered in both the governance and oversight
phases of the ITtoolkit.com
fast track management
model.
Status Reporting Tools:
Quick Tool:
The Status Report
Template
And, for more detailed project status reporting, be sure to check out the Project Status Snapshot, from ITtoolkit.com. It's a complete how-to resource for timely, informative project status reporting, providing comprehensive planning steps and polished tools for reports and presentations - all based on our own model for fast track project management.
You can also get all these fast track status reporting tools and more with our Fast Track Project Toolkit. The Toolkit is an all-in-one package of concepts, steps and tools to manage projects according to the ITtoolkit.com fast track management model. Go from proposal to project review as you apply fast track concepts to maximize available resources, follow fast track steps to save time, and use the fast track tools to get results. The package contains more than 400+ pages of process documentation and (20+) templates, forms and spreadsheets.
