Free Weekly Status Report Templates

Begin writing your weekly status report with a summary of your project’s overall status. Identify whether or not your budget and schedule are on track, and briefly describe any risks or additional resources used. 

The best way to ensure consistent and accurate reporting is to use a status report template. By standardizing the contents of your weekly reports, you can more easily identify outliers between weeks and ensure you are thinking about your progress the same way every week.

To write your weekly status report, follow the steps below:

1. Write a Summary of the Week’s Accomplishments: Recap the week’s achievements and the project’s status as a whole. Note any milestones you achieved and any major tasks you began or completed. Establish what you hope to accomplish the following week, and follow up on issues from the previous week’s report.
2. Outline Your Schedule’s Progress: State whether your schedule is on track, ahead of, or behind schedule. Make a note of any timeline changes.
3. Summarize Your Budget: Summarize the health of your budget. Make note of any major changes since the previous week and whether or not your projections are on track.
4. Identify Any Additional Resources Needed: List additional resources you used or identified as a need for the week.
5. State Any Anticipated Risks: List risks or roadblocks that became apparent during the week. If you have notes for addressing or avoiding them, include them in this section, too.
6. Include Other Notes as Necessary: Many projects have additional, unique considerations. If your stakeholders have requested extra information weekly, be sure to include those updates in your status report.

To learn more about the importance of regular status reporting and what to include, read our guide to creating effective project status reports.