Project Status Report Template
Create Effective Project Status Reports
Keep your stakeholders aligned and in the loop during your project progress with effective project status reports.
- Real-time collaboration to get buy-in from project stakeholders
- Multiple project management templates to get a headstart
- Intuitive visual canvas for seamless visual project management
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Easy Tools for Project Data Visualization
Extensive shape libraries for over 50 types of diagrams, charts, and graphs to effectively visualize project data for the project status report.
Multiple pre-made templates that you can customize to create your own project status reports, project scope statements, project charters, milestones, pipelines, and more.
Simple drag and drop tools to quickly create and add custom visualizations in your project status reports.
Configurable color themes for shapes to color-code elements in your project dashboard for easier analysis.
Create a Single Source of Truth
Add detailed docs, attachments, links and more via the notes feature on elements of the status report to provide additional information.
Infinite canvas to centralize all project information and assets for easier decision-making.
Built-in tools to create dynamic and interactive presentations, reports, and dashboards on project status for stakeholders.
Bring project data from other external sources to visualize them on the canvas and create a central access point for all information.
Keep Everyone and Everything in Sync
Multi-user collaboration with asynchronous editing to collaborate around project planning and tracking with your team.
@mention comments to tag people to get things done or clarify things and comment threads to have discussions and follow-ups on the same canvas.
Multiple access levels and roles to streamline managing, sharing, editing, and reviewing your milestones, project plans, and strategies.
Workspace level status tracking; mark workspaces as Draft, In Progress, Final, Archived, etc. to maintain workflows and to keep everyone in sync.
Smart notifications to stay updated on changes other stakeholders make to your work plans.
Video conferencing baked into the platform to feel like you are in the same room while working remotely.
A Better Way to Run Your Projects
Built-in project management tools and integrations to popular task management platforms to keep your team work flowing.
Prioritization grids to visually rank ideas for optimal effort and impact before implementation.
Assign tasks to complete items in context. Link tasks to or from other project management tools seamlessly.
Set estimated times and due dates for tasks and allocate resources based on availability and skill sets.
What Is a Project Status Report?
The project status report is a document that outlines the project’s overall progress against the projected project plan. It helps keep all project stakeholders informed about the high-level information such as milestones, work accomplished, risks, and roadblocks.
How to Create a Project Status Report?
- Open Creately and create a workspace to host your project status report on. Add other collaborators, including the project manager and other key stakeholder, to work with them in real-time on editing the report.
- Select a project status report example from the Creately templates to start right away. Alternatively you can enable the relevant shape library and drag and drop shapes onto the canvas to visualize the content of the project status report from scratch.
- Once you have given a name to your report, which should reflect the project name itself, and present the project health (current project status) using a color coding system (green = on track, yellow = at risk, red = off track).
- Write down your project status report summary in 2-3 sentences. This section should highlight the project highlights, major roadblocks, and potential project risks.
- Include a high-level summary of each key area of the project.
- Using Creately notes, include additional links to reports, images, docs, screenshots, and more on project status for those who would like to read more on how the project is progressing.
- Next highlight any blockers the project has run into and the next step as to how to overcome them.
- Finally, share the completed report via a quick secure share link or embed them in any site or intranet with an embed link to quickly communicate you project progress to stakeholders.