Engagement/Integrated Marketing/Managing/Communicate Status

An important aspect of managing any project is to clearly communicate the overall schedule, upcoming deliverable dates, and next steps. Some of these communications may come up during the check-in meeting or other ad hoc meetings and keeping everyone on the same page increases the likelihood of meeting the project's goals.

Possible Actions

• Announce a new major project at the Monday weekly update meeting or the monthly Engagement meeting.
• Post a status update and a link to the project hub to yammer.
• Email members of the RASCI and external stakeholders a short weekly update on the schedule, accomplishments, next steps, and any blockers.
• Post status updates to a Mozilla or personal blog
• Post updates to social media

Communication Recommendations

• All communications should include a link to the project hub and/or a link to specifically read more about the topic of the communication.
• Keep the content of your communication as short as possible and provide links if people want to read more. Headings, bullets, and short sentences are ideal and more web-friendly.
• A smaller distribution list is better than bigger. People already get overwhelmed with information and adding more to their workload many not always be beneficial to the project.