If you are a project manager, status report is the vital part of your communication to the leadership and audiences interested in your project. The purpose of the status report is not to drive a project with stakeholders. Project planning and driving should be handled separately. Status report has a single purpose, describe the status of the project. That's it. Here are the 3 attributes a status report should have. 1. Brief and Clear A status should be short and well thought. Remember what Mark Twain said, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.". If your status report is long and hard to follow, it means you did not think enough on it. If you have not spend time on your status report, why would other people spend more time on your status report to understand. Even worse, if they read and try to decipher what you have written, each person may interpret it differently. Therefore, keep important updates at the top and use clear
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