Generate status reports, without meetings
Setup automated check-ins with questions like "What are your goals for this week?" on a regular schedule. Your team receives the questions, shares their updates, and stays accountable without being micromanaged.
Dates on the left, people who have answered in green and unaswered people in red
How does it help me?
It saves you time from having to ask for status updates. By getting everything written down, it increases accountability and keeps the whole team on the same page.
Progress Updates is a simple way to automate team status updates on a regular basis. Your team gets the check-in questions and can update you without having to schedule a meeting with you.
People share their updates, and the summary is viewable to everyone
Automate standups, status updates and more
2-3 days a week, or maybe once a week, depending on the schedule you choose, everyone on your team shares their status updates and any problems without wasting unnecessary time in a meeting.
Because everything is written down, and you are collecting all the answers online, you can read up on all the replies at your own time. There is no micromanagement. The focus is only on getting your team members to share updates to your prompts regularly.
| Question |
Answer on November 11 - November 17, 2024
Previous week
|
Answer on November 18 - November 24, 2024
Current week
|
|---|---|---|
| What did you get done this week? |
- Launched our Winter email campaign to 50,000 leads - Conducted virtual demos of home workouts to corporate |
- Successfully resolved email deliverability issues - Migrated to a new ESP - back to 96% delivery rate - Launched first wave of Black Friday landing page |
| Anything blocking your progress? |
- Our email deliverability rate dropped by 15% - IT team is investigating but no resolution yet |
None this week. Email issues sorted! |
| What are your top priorities for next week? |
- Resolve email deliverability issues with IT team - Start A/B testing variations for Black Friday |
- Scale up Black Friday ad spends based on A/B tests - Begin outreach to fitness influencers - Develop retention strategy for Black Friday |
Status Updates that show the full picture. Comparing previous week versus current week.
How it works
Add your team
Invite your whole team by adding anyone you want to send questions to.
Create questionnaire
Create your first question. Select frequency, date and time to send it out.
Select time
Customize the frequency: Daily, weekly, monthly
View answers
Easily view all the answers, and click on any person to see their detailed replies.
Stay on track and check in with everyone
- No app to install Your team can reply to questions without creating an account. Each co-worker you add can reply to questions without logging in or having to remember a username/password.
- Send any question You can schedule any questions you want. From standup related ones like - 'What did you get done today?' or 'What did you accomplish last week?', to team ice-breaker questions like 'Any intersting books you read last month?' to anything you can think of.
- Customize schedule You can schedule questions to go out to your team every day, once a week, or on the first day (Mon/Tue/Wed etc) of a month - e.g. on the first Monday’s of every month, you can schedule the question: "What's the one thing you were proud of last month?”, and it will automatically go out on the first Monday of every month to your whole team.
- Add follow-up questions You can ask multiple questions - a main question, with follow-up questions below it, to get more context in the answers.
Why am I building this?
Hi! I’m Arjun, a software developer building Progress Updates. Before this, I worked at two other tech companies, and both of them had vastly different styles of product management. At my last job, all the standup meetings were done asynchronously, whereas the one before that did daily/weekly standups in person.
When these status update meetings were done in person or via zoom, you end up waiting for the PM or your co-workers to start the meeting. We had co-workers in different time-zones, and it was always hard to sync a good time to meet for everyone. Sometimes I had these meetings at 11:30 AM, and I hated getting interrupted from a deep-work state to attend the meeting. Many times these meetings took more than 30+ minutes to complete because we had a medium sized team.
On the other hand, at my last job, we did things differently. We did not have in-person status update meetings unless really required. Instead three times a week, everyone on the team had to update the founder asynchronously. I could reply anytime in the day, and was not interrupted from my work. I really enjoyed answering these questions as it gave me a way to review the work I did, explain it to my team, and it also showed me how I was spending my time.
Arjun Rajkumar
Founder, Progress Updates
Email: arjun@getprogressupdates.com
