CMUThought Community Thought 100 day Challenge

With all the wonderful tools that the IT industry has brought to the business world, you would think that the level of written communication would increase. But documentation has become a lost art, especially when it comes to reporting to team members and leaders. Unless your company has an outlined process with strict reporting procedures, your productivity is probably not as high as it could be. Why? Everything falls under one of two reasons: Not knowing that you should have more reporting, or not knowing how to create a good report.

Submitting good reports will do a lot of great things for you and your team, including the following: increasing the awareness of project tasks, making sure that important details are not missed, keeping your boss informed to avoid misconceptions & increase confidence, protecting you when there’s a discrepancy, and demonstrating your leadership (in other words – it makes you look good!)