Executive communication
Status, risk, action
Give progress information in three sentences.
The shape
- Status
- Risk
- Action
A worked example
Development is 80 per cent complete. The remaining risk is the payment integration. The team is testing a fallback today.
What usually goes wrong
Reporting status with no risk named, week after week, until the week there is one and nobody believes it was sudden.
Used in
Where this shape does its work in a real situation.
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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