Can RTC generate automatic weekly status emails?

There are few approaches you might consider here:

1) Create a work item for weekly status (it can be of any type) and get people to add their updates to that work item.  Add the manager to the work item as a subscriber and they will see the changes. The format may not be ideal but it will be automatic.

2) Consider creating a dashboard for the manager and populate it with content they would find relevant (rather than just a few words).  Then the manager can see the update whenever they want to.  Find out what the manager really needs to care about (eg: progress, defects fixed or discovered, etc) - and ultimately the heads of projects would not have to waste time with the summary.

I am always a bit cautious about the heads of projects creating summaries that put a positive spin on the project - it is harder to hide real data from the project itself.

Hope that gives you a few ideas to play with

anthony

You can also use RRDI or Insight and create interesting reports there. They allows also periodically sending e-mails to certain persons. Anyway this is just an idea (I like better the solution from Anthony :))