Projects often need status reports to go out to different audiences. Please see the attached two MS Word templates that can be used for a more standardized and consistent appearance, capturing the typical information that needs to be communicated regarding project progress, issues, and critical dates. The first template is for a single project status report. The second is to be used when a summary of multiple projects needs to be reported.
Please refer to Writing Executive Summaries for a great overview on what a project summary might contain.
AdCom Services is working on using JIRA to automatically generate portions of these status reports and we expect to complete this effort by Aprilby May, 2009.