Challenges and Pitfalls of Status Reporting in Project Management

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Challenges and pitfalls of different status reports
The major challenges that are associated with efficient status reporting in risk or project
management are reliant on different factors. Factors and circumstances relating to misreporting
activities by the project staffs and the unreliable reporting of the different situations might
challenge the effectiveness of the reporting activities (de Carvalho, Patah & de Souza Bido,
2015). In this relation, the personality traits play a major role in influencing the reporting quality
of the people involved in the project. On the other hand, the changes in the work culture and the
prioritization of success of the project might result to overlooking the small pitfalls (Damodaran
et al., 2014). The lack of proficient status reporting might lead a project to its failure.
However, apart from the characteristics of the project staff, in most of the research it has
been found that the executives often ignores bad news with the focus of maintaining the
positivity of the study. The changes in the reporting types and procedures might affect the
addictiveness of the people associated with the project. On the other hand, the lack of active
control and presence of the project manager might result to falsified status reporting which might
affect the potentials of the status reporting criteria. It has been noted that in most of the cases the
lack of consistent reporting might affect the rate of operations of the project while operating on
the objectives. The lack of on time reporting might again result to schedule overruns in a project
operation. Therefore, in this relation, the diverse range of operations that are initiated by the
organizations are supported through the enhanced means of reporting.
Data falsification during status reporting and the level of honesty of the people associated
with the project affects the outcome of the study. The different changes that are being
enumerated by the project managers are reliant on the efficient understanding of the status.