arlene trimbleAssistant IT Director| Local GovernmentAlamo, Ca, United States
In an agile management environment, have you provided your project sponsor/stakeholders a weekly status report?
If yes, what information do you include in your weekly status report?
What format do you use? Is this automated?
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Zeeshan AhmedProject Manager| KSMCJubail, Easter Region, Saudi Arabia
Generally weekly report should be of one page and have three parts: Work Completed last week, Work in progress and Work planned for next week. Section of "Issues" can also be added.
I think information will be same with different terminologies in Agile PM. For example, stories completed last week etc. Saving Changes...
arlene trimbleAssistant IT Director| Local GovernmentAlamo, Ca, United States
Thank you Zeeshan.
I agree that status reports need to be one pager only with easy to read and easy-to use information! I always write my status reports from the viewpoint of the end user or the information consumer as well to ensure relevancy. Saving Changes...
Asif GulConsultant Project Manager| Energoprojekt EntelMuscat, Oman
Good Question!
But do Agile Management environment have same frequency of Status Reporting .i.e. Weekly, or due to its flexible, repetitive nature there are more frequent status reporting between the Project Team & Stack holders?
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Zeeshan AhmedProject Manager| KSMCJubail, Easter Region, Saudi Arabia
A good point highlighted by Asif.
In my opinion, normally daily meetings are between team(s), scrum master and/or product owner. Other people may be invited as needed or in spring planning meetings. Weekly/monthly reports may required by stakeholder who do not participate aggressively, for example, Sponsor,CTO/CIO/CEO/Directors etc. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
As an example,
we are using the same status report for all kind of projects including SCRUM Epics. We are not so much interesting in Sprint internals, as Asif was also saying, so we ask for the status after the sprints, aka every 2 weeks. Somebody with the role of PM within the sprint team is responsible, could be the scrum master or a role we call project manager in larger Epics.
The status reports in Excel are gathered and used as input to a portfolio dashboard managed by the PMO and visible to the whole organisation.
Basically it is a one pager with RYG status, health indicators and risks highlighted. Performance measures not yet implemented, but are expected to show velocity and Epic burndown chart for SCRUM and EV for waterfall. Saving Changes...
