As the project progressed, the team members did email me their status on Friday mornings. I collated and sent out status by Friday afternoon, so everyone knew what everyone was doing. We used our team meetings to solve problems, such as the performance issues.

I prepared a monthly status report for Nancy and Big Cheese. The first three months were fine. But for the fourth month, we had encountered several problems with the performance enhancements, and were behind on them. I sent an explanation with my status report, and we continued.