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Dashboards, Scorecards and Project Status (Oh My!)
by Kenneth Darter
August 22, 2011

“What’s the status on that project?” It’s a question we hear all too often. The stakeholders and sponsors of a project will want to know a project’s status almost immediately after it has been approved by management (sometimes, they need it before the project is approved). This status report might be called a “scorecard”, a “dashboard” or some other fancy name. No matter what it’s called, the project status report should show the audience a good picture of where the project currently is. There are as many different ways to show project status as there are project managers, but there are some guiding principles that should be followed in order to effectively communicate with the audience. There are also some basic metrics and graphs that the project manager can keep in their analytic toolbox and use on the report.