Summarizes the project status, including project activity, information about the project, problems or delays, issues, planned activities for next period, and deliverable description and status. It also contains sections for reporting on WBS metrics and tasks, changes, issues and risks.

The Project Status Report is generally used to communicate weekly or bi-weekly project status to your customers, the PMO and IT management.

The Project Status Report contains the following topics:

  Distribution
  General Overview of Project Status
  Administration
  Project Activity
  Problems or Delays Encountered
  Issues to be Resolved
  Planned Activities.

In addition, the report statuses the following activities:

	Deliverables
	Work Breakdown Structure current week's and previous week's completion metrics
	Completed, past due and upcoming WBS tasks
	Open, approved and rejected changes
	Open and closed issues
	Open and closed risks.

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