CS446 [CS646]: Sample quarterly status reports (original) (raw)

UofW's Historical Status reports to CSSC

Between 1994 and 1997 the University of Waterloo as a member of the Canadian Strategic Software Consortium (CSSC) cooperated with a number of canadian software companies in conducting precompetative research. The following status reports (produced by UofW) provided CSSC with timely reports of progress made by the UofW towards achieving the goals of CSSC.

I would recommend that it be a requirement of any large project to produce similar status reports every three months for all of the following reasons.

• These status reports forced us to constantly evaluate and review our progress, thus keeping our focus on our timelines and deliverables.
• Knowing that one had to produce status reports every three months was a strong incentive to make progress that could be both demonstrated and documented.
• Because these status reports were read widely by the most senior levels of management and by most of the other participants in this venture, any problems or concerns raised within them were resolved promptly, typically by those most well placed to resolve them.
• The status reports that other companies provided helped to rapidly bring us up to speed with their progress, as they made progress.
• These status reports provide an audit trail very effectively documenting past activities, problems, and resolutions of these problems.

1994, Jan-Mar
1994, Apr-Jun
1994, Jul-Sep
1994, Oct-Dec

1995, Jan-Mar
1995, Apr-Jun
1995, Jul-Sep
1995, Oct-Dec

1996, Jan-Mar
1996, Apr-Jun
1996, Jul-Sep
1996, Oct-Dec

1997, Jan-Mar

Supporting documentation

Main project site
Technical overview of project
Documents prepared as part of project
Publications resulting from research

Note

Since these status reports document historical events they should be treated with respect. They should not be duplicated, or distributed beyond the intended audience. The intended audience is restricted to students currently enrolled in CS446.

This page is maintained by Ian Davis. Last update: Oct 5, 1999.