This document introduces a progress report presentation given by five students to their professor. It begins by listing the presenting students and then outlines the topics to be covered, including a progress report and feasibility report. It proceeds to provide definitions and purposes of progress reports, discussing their typical contents, organization, language and formats. It then shifts to discussing the definition, importance, typical parts and sections of a feasibility report, including the executive summary, methodology, alternative options evaluation, conclusion and recommendation.

2. WELCOME

3. Team Members:
Presented To:
Prof. Mam ALEENA BUKHARI
 Hafiz Muhammad Usama Akhtar (BSME-01153120)
 Hafiz Shahreyar Raza Baig (BSME-01153115)
 Affan Butt (BSME-01153118)
 Alim Tanveer (BSME-01153139)
 Asjad Ahmad Khan (BSME-01153143)

4. Presentation topics
Progress Report
Feasibility Report

5. Progress Report
A report that you have to write to inform about the
proress you are making on your work.
What is a progress report?
Student writes to teacher
Employee writes to supervisor/manager
Who should write a progress report?

6. Progress Report
To provide information about the way a project is
Developing
To convince your audience that you are making progress,
that it's the proper progress, and that you will finish on
time.
Purpose

7. Progress Report
To explain problems and to request assistance or
guidance
Force you to establish a work schedule so that you'll
complete the project on time.
Purpose

8. Progress Report
 A progress report writes to inform a supervisor,
associate, Instructor or customer about progress made
on a project over a certain period of time.
 The project can be the design, construction, or repair of
something, the study or research of a problem or
question, or the gathering of information on a technical
subject.
Purpose

9. Progress Report
 How much has been accomplished since the last report?
 Is the project on schedule?
If not, what went wrong? How has the problem been
corrected? How long will it take to get back on schedule?
Progress report should include
 Are there any unexpected problems (other than schedule
problems)?
 When do you anticipate completion?

10. Progress Report
 Introduction
Content
 Project description
 Project scope
Work completed before this report
Work completed during this time
period –present work
Work you need to complete before
you finish the project-future work
Work status
Problems
Conclusion

11. Progress Report
 Present tense: covers most of the
documents, in particular –perfect
and progressive tenses
 future tense-in the ‘future work’
Language
 Complete sentences are required
using different types of tenses.

12. Progress Report
Depending on the size of the progress report, the length
and importance of the project, and the recipient, the
progress report can take the following
forms:
Format
 Memo--A short, informal report to someone within your
organization
 Letter--A short, informal report sent to someone outside your
organization
 Formal report--A long, formal report sent to someone outside
your organization

13. Progress Report
 Headings
 Body
a) Introduction
b) Discussion
c) Conclusion
 References
Organization

14. Progress Report
To: Name of your advisor
From: Your name
Subject: The subject of your proposal
Date: date of submission
Heading

15. Progress Report
Body
a) Introduction
 Purpose of the project
 Scope, or limits, of the project
 Date the project began; date the project is
scheduled to be completed

16. Progress Report
 People or organization working on the project
 People or organization for whom the project is
being done
 Overview of the contents of the progress report
Body
a) Introduction

17. Progress Report
Chronological organization
 Work Completed
 Work in Progress
 Work Remaining
Body
b) Discussion

18. Progress Report
 Briefly summarize your progress.
 Relate back to the originally proposed schedule and
deadline.
 Reassure the reader that you are adhering to the
schedule and that the project will be completed on time.
 Emphasize the benefits of the final report.
Body
c) Conclusion

19. Progress Report
List all the references you used
Preferences

20. Feasibility Report
Introduction
 Feasibility report is the results
of a feasibility study.
 Feasibility study is carried out
in order to assess the viability of
a new project
 It is primary and most
important thing in development
of a project

21. Feasibility Report
Introduction
 It details whether or not a
project should be undertaken
and the reasons for that
decision.
 Feasibility reports are created to
persuade/help the decision
makers to choose between
available options

22. Feasibility Report
Importance
Before investing time and money
into a project, one needs to know
how successful the project will be
before investing. It is important
to understand the input costs, the
amount of research that will be
needed to be done, or even the
marketability of a project.

23. Feasibility Report
Parts
Title Page
Introduction / Executive Summary
Background*, Acknowledgement*,
Dedication*
Methodology / Method of analysis
Overview of Alternative Options
Evaluation
Conclusion
Recommendation

24. Feasibility Report
Executive summary
 It states the objective of the
report and of the project
 Presents the brief summary of
the content of the research topic.
The short narrative includes
essential statements about the
whole paper.

25. Feasibility Report
Methodology
 It involves discussion on method of analysis
for feasibility stud
 Should state the reliable sources you used and
what method they came from ( internet,
interview, book, etc.). Without a credible
research method or credible sources your
document itself will lack credibility.

26. Feasibility Report
Overview of Alternative Options
 This part underlines the key features of each possible option.
 Make sure they are easy to understand and presented in a
friendly layout. Keep in mind that the goal is to allow the
audience to make the best decision.
 Classifies the different business processes for solving the
problems
 This is where the advantages and disadvantages of the
alternatives are discussed.
 The major possible alternatives should be discussed and
 compared using clearly defined criteria.

27. Feasibility Report
Evaluation
 the “bulk” of the report. The author must
evaluate the options using the criteria he/she
created.
 May include graphs, charts, etc. to show that
the options were studied, and have come up
with statistics that back up the reasons as to
why the alternative beats the competition.

28. Feasibility Report
Conclusion
 Discusses the result of the comparisons of the
alternatives.
 This is where the final conclusion is stated as
a result of a keen and careful evaluation.
 The author will need to state the conclusion
he/she came up with

29. Feasibility Report
Recommendation
 The final section of feasibility report
 The recommendation section should echo the most
important conclusions leading to the
recommendation and then state the
recommendation emphatically.
 One of the most important part of the Feasibility
Report. This is where the suggested solution is
intelligently laid.

30. Thank you!
Any question?