Monthly reporting requirements | Project management | Forum

I think now would be a good time to think more about the monthly reporting requirements that we want each working group's representatives to meet.

Hopefully it should be fairly uncontroversial that every workgroup should have to report:

• Estimated total mass of their equipment
• Estimated total cost of their equipment / materials (not counting labour costs)
• Estimated total power consumption of their electrical equipment
• Estimated total consumed/produced liquids, gases, etc.
• Any estimates that directly impact on other workgroups

Can we think of anything else that we would want to add?

Oh, of course.  I had been thinking of that as more or less a given, i.e. there would be a brief (few paragraphs) summarising major design decisions made in that time.  My line of thinking here was, in addition to that, what sort of things do we always want to be made very clear and explicit, so that people in other workgroups don't need to actually read through the entire thing to find important details.  Basically, what facts/figures would be essential for an executive summary?