Project management progress report

Project management progress reporting is a formalized process which helps project administrators to identify, measure and analyze the advance made on work performance. It embraces a set of indicators and controllable matters which indicate the scale and quality of project progressing. Actually a system of project progress reporting makes project controllable, and ensures its dynamics being explained in understandable terms. The simplest among project progress report examples is usual to-do list which is also a working plan at the same time: it shows us what we should do, and it can be used to check off the done things, helping us to know the progress and what is pending undone yet.

Conception

In order to make life of those who perform tasks easier, as well as of those who supervise projects, special templates are used. 

These templates are specially adjusted forms providing their users with blank fields to fill with essential information: the name and ID number of the task being analyzed, description of its state on certain milestone (in terms of different aspects), if it is completed then date and time of formal completion, and so on. Using the templates makes the process of reporting much easier for work performers by enabling them focusing only on necessary things to be reported, as well as for supervisors who can easily tabulate and study provided materials. Today these tools can be fully transferred into electronic format to be managed with a help of special software. 

Software for project progress reporting – technology, functions and examples:

Electronic format is easily manageable and provides wide opportunities for streamlining staff productivity. The most common example of software usage is Excel solution which allows listing tasks and jobs in a spreadsheet file that can be shared among several users. This sample provides unlimited capabilities for recording tasks and describing them with multiple attributes. Besides mentioned solution, there are more advanced and reliable tools which use client-server technology to ensure the best style of collaboration. Such a solution will help the whole team to become a part of the system controlling project evolution where the manager and assisting administrators will get centralized positions to team performance.

Good example of such client-server software is VIP Task Manager. This effective program has everything necessary for practical planning, tracking and reporting. There are two kinds of templates (Task List and Task Tree interface modes), and Calendar mode for scheduling agendas and timelines. This software allows multiple users to get connected into one synchronized network where employees can report on their workloads in real-time, so all mentioned interface modes function as interactive docs showing you the current statuses of all the tasks listed in your database. Each of team members can use own configuration of report doc (layout of interface) to update working data, and all the data pieces remain synchronized and consistent due to server which supports all interactions.