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Post an Update on a Project, Program, or Initiative to say how it is going, and set one of three verdicts with it. That verdict sets the item’s health, which everyone else reads from Portfolio.

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The three verdicts

You set health. Docket never infers it from ticket counts or burn-down slope. The Spring Gala can be 80% complete and failing.

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Writing a good update

1

Say what changed

Cover the period since your last update.
2

Say what is in the way

Name the blocker and who owns it. Name what you are waiting on.
3

Set the verdict honestly

Post at_risk early and everyone can help. An on_track posted the week before a slip erodes trust in the whole signal.
Write for someone who last looked two weeks ago.

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Where Docket shows your verdict

  • The item’s own record, in order.
  • Portfolio, as the health chip on every row.
  • The Inbox of anyone following the item.
  • The published brief, when the project is published.
An Initiative rolls up health from every Program and Project linked to it. Post one honest off_track on “Fall term enrolment” and “Grow revenue” reports it too.

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Attention flags

Initiatives raise their own flags: off_track, at_risk, or stale. Stale means nobody has posted an update in long enough to trust the health signal. An absent update never counts as a good one.