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Recently I was interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, The Bigg Success Show, and I provided George and Mary-Lynn with 2 Tips for More Effective Project Status Reports.

Below I provide three additional tips for a total of five tips that will help you write status reports that people will actually read!

Tip #1 - Know your audience!
Ask yourself these questions:

- Who will be reading your status report? Team members? Management? Your customer?

- What level of detail does your audien… Continue

Creating a comprehensive schedule is one of the more difficult activities that Project Managers face. Schedule creation is often considered more art than science - and results often support this. What is often more frustrating is that team members often find themselves on one team with a project manager that creates and manages schedules a particular way and on another team with a project manager with a different approach.

I often hear from people on teams, "why can't all project managers do th… Continue