Status Reports
Sometimes Dilbert hits it right on.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to prepare a status report on a project. And too often that status report is nothing more than a status of the missing status report because I don’t have time to prepare a real status report on the project.
Some weeks it feels like my whole week is spent preparing status reports on the projects I didn’t even accomplish anything on.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
AUGH! I surfed to your site by typing “status reports are stupid” into google.
You see I have now been asked to write up weekly status report on my doings at work.
The stupidness, is we have an online incident and enhancement tracking system that tracks and assigns all work including ongoing status. If it isnt in that system its not being worked on. The managers could easily track tickets by assignment, status, or any number of categories and read our extensive and ongoing notes in the system. But that apparently was not convenient for them so now we each have to fill in a status report in Microsoft word in an asinine time intensive format and drop it into a network share .
At one time managers were promoted from the work areas based on leadership abilities, respect, and good ideas. Now they are trained in universities to be lazier than the workers.