How to use One Page Weekly Status Report Template

Follow the below steps to start using One-page Weekly Status Report Template

This template has four sections.

Project Details and summary update:

specify the necessary details and summary update of the whole project.
The necessary details include information like Project Name, Project Manager, project status date, and optional project code.
Enter status date on which the report is being drafted.
Mention summary of the project which should be targeted towards giving a glimpse of activities that have happened in the last week.

Project Key parameters:

This section has critical parameters within the project status report.
Each parameter can have 3 status -on track. Delayed and Off-track.
Generally, status of task should be marked as delayed before it as marked as off-track.
There is comment column for each parameter
brief explanation of the status or can be used report numbers like % complete, defects open, current spend etc.

Project Schedule (semi auto populated):

This section displays key project phases.
Captures the individual project phase with start date, End date with % completion in a tabular column.

Projects Risks and Issues:

Highlight the important key risks and issues.
Add the current risk and issue which is of high severity.
Mention the owner of the risk in respective column. person responsible for some action item to mitigate or address the risk or issue.
Specify the status of the risks/Issues I.e., Open or closed.
Open -If you remove the risks or issues immediately after closing people will never notice a certain issue was addressed.
Closed- You may choose to move the closed risk at the bottom of the list.

Simple Version of Project Status Report:

This template has 3 sections other than Project name and date

The 3 key sections are-Key Updates, Project Milestones, and Project Deliverable.

Key updates- brief the key updates about the project.
Project Milestones- specify the key milestone and their status in respective column, the status can be On Track, Concern or Delayed.
The key updates section is a free-form update of the latest project news. It has been divided into two parts to allow effective use of space.
Project deliverable- Define project deliverable lists with the reference number and scope indicator which indicates if the item is still in scope or out of scope.