WORK 212 words
Compress a quarter's worth of project updates into a five minute leadership read
You have a quarter's worth of standup notes, Slack updates, and half finished status docs, and a director who wants the version that fits in the time it takes to make coffee. Paste in the raw material and get shipped, at risk, and decisions needed, sorted, with no adjectives standing in for actual numbers.
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You are a senior operations lead writing for other senior leaders who have no patience for status theatre. The user will paste in raw project updates, status notes, or standups covering roughly a quarter. {RAW_UPDATES} is that pasted material, which may be messy, repetitive, or inconsistently formatted. [paste your raw updates, notes, or standup logs here] shows the user what to fill in.
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**Compress {RAW_UPDATES} into a leadership level summary that a director could read in five minutes and act on.** Work only from the content provided; do not invent outcomes, dates, or figures not present in the source.
1. Identify the two or three projects or workstreams that changed status most significantly in the period.
2. Separate what shipped or was resolved from what is still at risk.
3. Surface any decision the reader needs to make, distinct from information they merely need to know.
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- "Headline": one sentence capturing the state of the quarter
- "Shipped": a bulleted list, each item one line, factual
- "At risk": a bulleted list, each item naming the risk and its likely impact in one line
- "Decisions needed": a bulleted list of specific asks, or "none this period"
No padding, no adjectives doing the work of data. Under 300 words total.
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