Weekly Status Report Template

           The report is segmented into 5 differing parts: Objective Progression, Last Week’s Accomplishments, Plans for the Week, Risk Monitoring and Control, and Notes.

• Objective Progression helps individuals keep an eye on the prize, knowing what needs to be accomplished in the longer term (1+ weeks). Usually, the objectives displayed here are associated with milestones for a project, a team, or organization. For example, one objective could be “Finish design of automation solution for Agency X”.
• Last Week’s Accomplishments gives the individual an opportunity to highlight key areas that have been completed in the prior week. Such accomplishments are often associated with the objectives highlighted in the step above – think of it as steps that have been taken in order to increase the progression of the objectives displayed above. For example, an accomplishment associated with the automation solution for Agency X would be “Conducted
• Plans for the weeks is an opportunity to show what is expected to be accomplished for the upcoming week and ensure that stakeholders are up to date on priorities, schedule, know what to expect and can potentially assist with what’s to come.
• Risk monitoring and control gives the ability to highlight potential risks to the accomplishment of identified objectives and the steps that are likely to be taken to mitigate it.
• Notes gives you an opportunity to add-on to what has been said so far, or to raise things that are important, but could not be added to the other parts.

           Below are some information on each column and circled item depicted in the image above:

1. Date/ Owner: Date of issue for the report and name of report owner.
2. ID: A row identifier to facilitate the transposition of data from the ‘Database’ tab to the ‘Report’ tab. It is important to note that in order to have an item shown in the report from the database, it is necessary to input the item ID number into this cell and the file will automatically feed the rest of the information.
3. Item: The objective, previous accomplishment, upcoming plans, risk monitoring and control or notes associated the ID. This is automatically filled once the ID for that row is identified.
4. Progress: A number between 0 to 100% to determine how close the Objective is to be completed.
5. Confidence: Subjective confidence level that the key result will fall under low, medium or high probability of completion within the expected timeline. This is auto-populated based on the ID input in the ‘Database’ tab.
6. Resources: Name of external link to supporting documentation. This is auto-populated based on the ID.
7. Mitigation: Type of mitigation used in relation to the item row. This is auto-populated based on the ID.
8. Action: The action that needs to be done in relation to the risk monitoring and control item.