Received a nice presentation about team status reports and meeting

1. Status Reports & Effective Team Meetings Ian Koenig PMP Quality IS Projects, Inc www.qipinc.com

4. Status Reports What? When? How? Who?

6. Progress to Date Actual % Complete Planned % Complete Schedule with measurable deliverables Quick process for tracking Weekly Status Report

7. Achievements/Completed Activities Major breakthroughs Limit to major items Weekly Status Report

8. Planned Activities Missed/Delayed What? By how much? How are you going to recover & by when? Single short sentences or bullets Weekly Status Report

9. Planned Activities for …….(next period) Only major, quantifiable items Weekly Status Report

10. Issues/Topics for Management Attention Critical issues that have been escalated this period that require action Items you wish to bring to management attention Weekly Status Report

11. Template

12. HOW TO SURVIVE A BEAR ATTACK ... … and run effective project team meetings

14. Smokey The Bear Says

17. FROM TO task accomplishment Little Follow-Up Accept Missing Deadlines SOFT APPROACH Follow-Up on All Work Do Not Accept Missing Deadlines HARD APPROACH Not Interested in Workload Issue Too Many Tasks HARD APPROACH Interested in Workload Issue Less Tasks SOFT APPROACH task accomplishment Make The Workload Bearable

18. Remember Hill Street Blues? Daily Ops Meetings “ Let’s be careful out there”