Weekly Project Status Report Template with RAG Ratings and Decision Tables

Cover slide titled Weekly Project Status Report with the tagline Progress. Exceptions. Decisions. and a reporting-period field, set beside a sunlit meeting-room photograph.

• • Progress. Exceptions. Decisions.
• • Reporting period field

Summary table rating Schedule, Budget and Scope as Red, Amber or Green with an update column, a status legend and a decision-needed callout.

• • Status legend: Red, Amber, Green
• • Area, Status and Update table for Schedule, Budget and Scope
• • Decision needed callout with owner

Table comparing planned and actual dates for each milestone and its deliverable, with a reminder to confirm completion evidence before reporting delivery.

• • Milestone, Planned, Actual and Deliverable columns
• • Confirm completion evidence before reporting delivery

Planned and actual labels above an empty variance trend chart framed by an approved measure and reporting period axis, followed by a variance explanation box.

• • Planned and Actual labels
• • Variance trend chart area
• • Variance explanation

Budget comparison listing planned amount, actual amount, variance and units, with a note to validate amounts and units before reporting variance.

• • Planned amount
• • Actual amount
• • Variance
• • Units

Table of risks or issues with their dependency, impact and accountable owner, prompting the team to surface blockers in the weekly report.

• • Risk or issue, Dependency, Impact and Owner columns
• • Validated items with accountable owners

Decision brief table listing each decision with its owner, needed-by date and impact if delayed, with the photograph placed on the left.

• • Decision, Owner, Needed by and Impact if delayed columns
• • Confirm decision, owner and timing before escalation