Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Status Reports That Stupefy

All too often project managers give status reports that undermine their credibility and give executives little information on which to base decisions. What’s even worse, bad status reports don’t give early warning on big problems. Let’s look at some common but useless ways to report status and then talk about the best practices techniques to use on your status reports.

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Dick Billows, PMP
President 4pm.com

1 comment:

Tom Woodhatch said...

Dick, you're absolutely right.

A major reason is that status reports are all too often seen as ends in themselves, designed to be produced, ticked off the 'To Do' list by writer and reader alike, then filed for posterity.

 
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