Purpose: To provide a framework for consistent team progress updates, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and aligned. Scope: Applicable to all team members responsible for reporting progress, plans, and problems.
This template is provided by . Overview
Providing consistent team progress updates is critical to keeping teams informed and aligned to move our business forward. These updates need to have more signal, less noise, and be more effectively cascaded up, down, and across teams. 3Ps is a framework for cascaded progress updates that keep the most relevant stakeholders at every level quickly informed across the company. The 3Ps Framework
Progress → Highlights, milestones, decisions, or reviews in the prior period
Plans → Priorities and goals in the coming period
Problems → Blockers, issues or flags
Crafting Effective 3Ps
Limit 5 bullets per section and 3 lines per bullet Use bold headers to help readers scan for relevance Provide sufficient context for the target audience Avoid acronyms and code-words Include links to launch tracker, docs, or dashboards for more details Highlight customer impact, with anecdotes or user stories in addition to metrics Include the next steps or actions in progress to address any problems, wherever possible
Here’s a sample:
3P – {Team/Area} – MM/DD/YYYY
Name of Author
Progress
Completed milestone X, resulting in Y Hired three new team members to support growing workload Plans
Focus on achieving goal Z in the next period Streamlining document management processes for better organization Problems
Identified blocker A, working on solution B Dealing with intermittent internet connectivity issues in the office, contacting service provider for resolution
3Ps of Team Progress Updates
