Friday status-update template

Five-section plain-text template I send every Friday at 16:00 UTC. Shipped · Open · Risk · Decision needed · Next week.

What’s in it

A plain-text template (also Markdown) structured into five sections. Shipped: what landed this week. Open: what’s in progress. Risk: what could slip or break. Decision needed: explicit asks of the client. Next week: what’s queued.

Why it works

Same template every week. Clients learn to scan it in 90 seconds. Boards can forward without rewriting. The “Decision needed” section forces explicit asks rather than vague “let me know when you can” — this is the single highest-ROI section.

License

MIT.