Stage 5 · Lesson 1 of 7
Short weekly status updates
Your manager sees much less of your work than you think. A short fixes that. Keep it to five lines at most: what you finished and what it changed, what is in progress, what is blocked, and what you need from whom.
Lead with results, not activity, and link to or tickets. Send the status update at the same time every week, even when the week was quiet. Updates prevent surprises on both sides.
They also make more useful, because the status is already known, and they feed your .
Common trapsending updates only when something is wrong, or writing a long diary that nobody reads to the end.
A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 1 cheat sheet entry come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it
Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- GuideFreeGet Your Work Recognized: Write a Brag Document
Julia Evans
Julia Evans on keeping a record of your work, with a template you can start this week
- GuideFreeThe Update, the Vent, and the Disaster
Michael Lopp
Michael Lopp on what one-on-ones are for and how to make them worth the time