HP Impact: HPImpact: How to improve your progress reports
How do your monthly progress reports measure up? Quality status reporting is really an important positive team reflection. Project management analysts stress that good progress reporting is "a solid w..
How do your monthly progress reports measure up? Quality status reporting is really an important positive team reflection. Project management analysts stress that good progress reporting is "a solid win-win time saver opportunity." Yet, according to Christopher Michalak of Pathfinder, Inc., Cherry Hill, New Jersey, project progress status reporting "is not all that complicated."
Here are some basic best practices guidelines that both producer of the report and recipients should follow:
Format / structure for quick, efficient and accurate recipient understanding.
Commit to clear, unambiguous, concise, balanced, full perspective, relevant and factual reportin
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