Status reports are the minimum expectations for project management communication. There are other elements that should be communicated in addition to a formal status report like the Risk Register,The Issue Log, the Scope Change Log and other tracking logs

1. Reports & Logs to Show
Overall Project Status
Created by
Do Nguyen Hung

2. Introduction
 Status reports are the minimum
expectations for project management
communication.
 There are other elements that should
be communicated in addition to a
formal status report:
 The Risk Register
 The Issue Log
 Scope Change Log

3. Status Report
 Status Report provides a recap of the
project status today and
communicates anything interesting
that the reader should know.
 This report should be detailed enough
to answer questions about the current
health of the report, yet not-so detailed
that people who read it are lulled to
sleep with trivial details.

4. Status Report
Status report should answer the
questions:
• Where do things currently stand with this
project?
• What are the next steps on this project?
• What obstacles are in the way of this
project coming to completion?
• What is the current state of key project
metrics (schedule, budget, etc.)?

5. The Risk Register
 The risk register is another vital report.
Risks are always lurking in the
background of any project just waiting
to knock it off course.
 The risk register identifies those risks,
quantifies the potential impact they
could have on a project, and then
offers mitigations plans for each of the
identifies risks.

6. The Issue Log
 The issue log report is your way of
identifying, tracking and managing
current problems that require help
outside the project team.
 This log should show what is actively
being done to address each issue and
prioritize them by area of impact on
the project.

7. Scope Change Log
 This log shows a prior and current
scope change requests, and their
resolution.
 This is important to keep the
management stakeholders aware of
how their scope approvals are
changing the nature of the project over
time.
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