Tracking Progress and Reporting

Making a plan is the easy part. Keeping a project on that plan, week after week, is where most of the work is, and where project coordinators earn their place. Somebody has to collect updates, keep the action register current, chase late actions, write the weekly status report and raise the alarm when something is about to go wrong. Done well, this means problems are fixed while they are still small. This course teaches you what to track and how to collect honest updates, how to set up and run an action register, how to write a clear one-page status report with a red, amber or green rating, how to use simple numbers in reports, how to keep a risk register and an issue log, and how to spot and flag delays early in a way that helps managers decide what to do. Examples come from construction, events, IT and mining in South Africa. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV.