Management Bits and Tips

Your boss needs a report, your boss’s boss needs a report from your boss, your boss’s boss’s boss needs a report from your boss’s boss and so on, and everyone needs it before a certain date or even an hour. No one likes delayed reports and no one likes to write them in a hurry (bit). Use IIRW process, Iterative and Incremental Report Writing (tip).

People feel anxiety when time approaches a deadline and reports are delayed. This affects both who needs to read a report and who needs to write it. So don’t leave report writing to the last hour before deadline to avoid delays. If you are in software industry you probably know about iterative and incremental software development. Apply it to report writing too. Write reports incrementally as soon as you finish a task, subtask or milestone and revise them iteratively. This will also accommodate unexpected risks to report delivery when suddenly another boss is added in the middle of reporting chain and people below have to shift reporting time.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -