Article - Top 10 Attributes of a Great Status Report
Submitted by Jamal Moustafaev on Thu, 10/26/2017 - 10:57
- PowerPoint – create your status reports in the PowerPoint format. For one they are very easy to project on the wall when conducting stakeholder meeting both at the project and the PMO level. Second, they look attractive; after all PP has been designed as presentation tool!
- Length – keep your reports limited to one slide. This approach will help you with selecting the most important information bits about a project. Also, keep in mind the limited attention span of the senior managers. The last thing they want to do is to listen to essays being read out to them at the status meetings (And, yes, I have seen that happen!)
- Name and Date – Include the name of the project manager and the date of the report (see Figure 1)
Figure 1
