Project Status Report: Simple Project Progress Report Template

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Glad I could help, Tul Lus.

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[@karangadani]

This Bloke is absolutely spot on!!

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Thanks for your feedback!

[@alexanderfernandez9469]

Valuable information Dimitryi, I realize that the project progress report that my company has uses a very common pattern to yours. Even if it is not an email format the goal is to keep it short and informative. Thank you

[@ITProjectManagers]

Thanks for sharing! Yes, that’s quite a natural way of writing reports.

[@rhendierashelda]

Greetings Mr. Dmitriy. I have an urgent assignment to make a progress report and your video explain it really well. Thank you for the information

[@ITProjectManagers]

You are welcome! Glad it’s helpful and timely.

[@AlfredLoo]

I stumbled on this video. Great info!!! Please follow what is the delivery method the company is using. More often than not it is in Powerpoint than email body. So that the stakeholders can easily compile your slide into another deck.

[@ITProjectManagers]

Thanks. In most cases, I try to convince stakeholders to use either a plain text report in an email or a dashboard in your PM tool (Jira/Asana etc.) If you do need slides that stakeholders need to reuse, I would create only the required slides separately. The hardest part here is that most stakeholders don't know a better why to communicate. So, you have to educate and convince them. It may take time.

[@СергейПерун-д4х]

Thanks for the tips and templates. Reporting is always one of the major things indeed

[@ITProjectManagers]

So true! Thanks for feedback, Sergey.

[@gilangradip]

Thank you!.

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You are welcome. Glad it’s been useful

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Welcome 👍

[@marinapolkovnikova1066]

Very interesting as usual, thanks, Dmitry!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mashabezreka5123]

I like visual diagrams and examples! Thanks a lot!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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You are welcome!

[@thebelloscircle7542]

You are a superstar Dmitriy. You are! Can we connect please?

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I’ve replied to your email. Please let me know how I can help.

[@ДенисКириллов-ы3щ]

Nice stuff. Thanks!

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Glad you liked it!

[@195dhaval]

Any recommendation on how to write Executive summary for Program/Multi-project in single view? So there are 5 projects which are not inter-dependent. I am presenting them in form of powerpoint presentations. 5 individual slides for each project for deep dive and an executive summary slide at start to summarise all project in 1 line each. I am circulating this each month but i think its least engaging and not sure if I must report updates from last month or give the overall context/status of the project? The only reason I don't want to refer this as a program summary is because these are independent projects and not inter dependent...Thanks in advance!

[@ITProjectManagers]

Hi Dhaval, Sorry for the late response. I wrote an answer to you 2 weeks ago but never published it. I think it's totally OK if stakeholders only read your one-liner status report. If it says everything is fine - they don't need to worry about the project. But if you say there's a problem - they should respond. If it works this way you don't need to change anything. I recommend showing the progress during the reporting period. Planned vs what was actually done. It gives a sense of performance from the team and your control over the project. I'm not sure if 1 month period is good. I prefer shorter reporting periods unless the project is really slow-paced.

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Project status reports in excel

[@ITProjectManagers]

Thanks for an idea. I’ll record a video on this one soon.

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Kamala, it seems you comment isn’t full...not sure what you mean here.