A very complete weekly project update email template

project-update-template.txt

To: <email list set up only for sending these updates to>
Subject: <Project Name> Project Status - <today's date>

Change Summary for the week
* bullet points, not too many
* Finished items, decisions, actions taken
* Not things like "still working on that thing from last week"

Overall Strategy and Summary
* One bullet summary of the goals of the program
* Strategy to reaching those goals
* Should tie to actions this week and milestones below
* Good info for folks who have just been forwarded this week's update and know nothing little your program

Milestones
* <Milestone date> - <Milestone status>
** Short description of this milestone ("whiz bang feature live for users")
** Any decisions made, could be this week or further back, depends on how disruptive
** Goals
** Risks
** Mitigations

Overall Risks and Mitigations
* Every program has risks
* How are you mitigating them? 

Assumptions
* Overall program assumptions
* Like staff size and budget
* Maybe availablity of other departments

Thanks for posting! FWIW, nowadays I'm much more into posting KPIs in lieu of text. A Jira burndown is worth a thousand words. :) So I basically have

• Change Summary for the week, almost as above, but I outline it in fancy, relaxing blue
• Chart of our crashes on Android for the past month, which is the main KPI I want people to improve
• Chart of burndown
• Milestones as above

Hmm, somewhere I lost track of Risks and Mitigations and Assumptions. That's probably bad.