Chapter 17: Project Reports 101
Every status report you send out to the world should say a story about your project journey. It should highlight where you are in your journey at the moment. Additionally, you may add how far you have come and where you are going to next. Depending on the audience, you will use different parameters to showcase and use different graphs. The first beneficiary of good reports is always the project managers themselves!
Project is shipped with powerful predesigned reports, broad dashboards, and more than a dozen other analytical reports for export, all out of the box. As long as you keep the progress updated on your schedule, you will have access to these professionally designed reports at the click of a button. These reports will suffice for most projects, with minimal tweaks. In this chapter, we will discuss these bouquets of reports, readily available as a gift to you in Project. In a later chapter, we will cover other advanced concepts of modifying...