Showing posts with label status report formatting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label status report formatting. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Highlights and Lowlights in Status Reports

Somebody from Microsoft gave me an idea of using colored arrows for accentuating high- and low-lights of the project on the status report.

It looks like this:


While it is a minor formatting enhancement, it'll help your audience to focus on the key areas, and the use of arrows makes this apporach work for color-blind people as well.