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Weekly status update template
Progress, next steps, risks and asks for stakeholders
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Driftwood data warehouse migration, week 6
Author: Kenji Moreau · Date: 2026-07-17
Overall status
🟡 Yellow: on track for the September 30 cutover, but the finance reporting backfill is a week behind and needs a decision (see Asks).
Milestones on track
4 of 5
Accomplished
- Migrated the orders and inventory pipelines to the new warehouse; both ran in parallel all week with zero row-count mismatches
- Retired 14 legacy cron jobs that had no downstream consumers
- Finished the access review: 212 warehouse users mapped to 9 roles
Planned next week
- Start the finance reporting backfill (2019 to 2023)
- Dry run of the cutover runbook with the on-call team on Thursday
- Migrate the marketing attribution pipeline
Metrics
| Metric |
This week |
Last week |
| Pipelines migrated |
23 of 40 |
19 of 40 |
| Dashboards repointed |
61 of 118 |
44 of 118 |
| Nightly load time (new warehouse) |
38 min |
52 min |
| Row-count mismatches |
0 |
3 |
Risks & blockers
| Risk/Blocker |
Impact |
Owner |
Needs |
| Finance backfill needs a frozen month-end snapshot that finance has not provided |
Backfill slips a week, cutover buffer shrinks to 5 days |
Kenji Moreau |
Snapshot from finance by July 22 |
| Two analysts still write to legacy tables directly |
Data drift after cutover |
Sofia Lindqvist |
Agreement to revoke write access on Aug 1 |
Asks
- Finance (Hannah Pryce): approve a frozen June 30 snapshot by Wednesday so the backfill can start.
- Analytics leads: confirm the August 1 date for revoking legacy write access.
The template
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Weekly status update
Author: [your name] · Date: [date]
Overall status
🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴 and one line on why, especially if it's not green.
Milestones on track
0 of 0
Accomplished
What actually shipped or closed this week, not "worked on."
Planned next week
The two or three things that will move next week, so readers can check back.
Metrics
The numbers that show whether the work is moving the needle, not just happening.
| Metric |
This week |
Last week |
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Risks & blockers
| Risk/Blocker |
Impact |
Owner |
Needs |
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Asks
Anything you need from a reader to unblock next week: a decision, a review, an intro.
Questions
- How long should it be?
- One screen; link out to detail instead of pasting it
- When is a status yellow?
- When a date or goal is at risk but there is a plan; red means it will slip without help
- Who is the audience?
- Stakeholders who skim, so put the status and asks first
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Connect Claude to reph over MCP, then paste this. The draft arrives as suggestions you accept or reject section by section. How to connect Claude.
Find my reph doc "Weekly status update" with search_docs, then read it with read_doc. Draft this week's update from the project tracker, merged pull requests, team channel and last week's status doc. Fill the KPI block and metrics table with real numbers only, and list only what actually shipped. File it with suggest_edit, one replace_section op per section (heading line kept) so each can be accepted alone. Ask each open question (unsourced numbers, the overall status color) with add_comment quoting that section's heading line, then call request_review with a one-line summary.
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