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The frameworks

Managing up

Manager update

Say where things are and what you need, briefly.

The regular update to your manager.

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The shape

  1. Bottom line
  2. Progress
  3. Risk
  4. Required support

A worked example

The project remains on track. Development is 80 per cent complete. The main risk is vendor integration. I need approval to allocate one more engineer.

A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.

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