The Project Status Blog

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Of the many things that contribute to a project’s success, few offer as much leverage as effective communication. Those of us who serve in project management roles are always looking for better ways to communicate, including the timely distribution of project status reports. Large projects are particularly challenged in creating and sharing status information. Some communication tools, such as project status reports, may be reviewed and revised a number of times before they are published, ultimately delaying their distribution and usefulness. Informal delivery methods, enabled and expedited by the speed of computer networking, offer more rapid exchanges of information, promote interaction, and provide a historical repository for project work.

One such communication method originated first as a web-based means of recording a log of articles written about specific subjects and published at regular intervals. The blog (short for web log) is typically authored by one person, often containing commentary on specific topics and themes. While we generally think of a blog as a web-based tool to reach thousands of otherwise unconnected readers, it can also be advantageously applied to promote speedy communications to a specific audience of project team members.

This article focuses on the use of a blog to serve as the primary means of quickly disseminating project status…

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