Chapter 6. Reporting outward and upward

This chapter covers

  • Protecting the team from administrative details
  • Reporting hours for capitalized projects
  • Reporting project status for traditional, adaptive, and mixed projects
  • Minimizing the effort of management reporting

At higher levels of management, people make different kinds of decisions than would be made at the team level. They need to know what’s going on across an entire program, an entire product suite, an entire value stream, or the entire enterprise. Whereas you make decisions about how to keep the work moving forward, they make decisions about whether a project should be continued or canceled, and whether a given initiative ought to be capitalized or expensed. Details about individual ...

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