At some jobs, I've used very complicated spreadsheets for this method (to track dependency costs, etc), but lately Google spreadsheet works pretty well for individual assignments and status. There are some Scrum-based software solutions out there that somewhat support this approach. (e.g. http://www.acunote.com ) There's also a scrum plugin somewhere for Microsoft Project, but I haven't used that either.
It depends on the size of your group, probably, what will work for you. Also it depends on the size of the upward corporate group that needs reporting.
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This feels a lot like the other posts I've responded to in the past 4 days. Sorry if I'm getting redundant.
We use a scrum-like backlog methodology based on ROI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122203
At some jobs, I've used very complicated spreadsheets for this method (to track dependency costs, etc), but lately Google spreadsheet works pretty well for individual assignments and status. There are some Scrum-based software solutions out there that somewhat support this approach. (e.g. http://www.acunote.com ) There's also a scrum plugin somewhere for Microsoft Project, but I haven't used that either.
It depends on the size of your group, probably, what will work for you. Also it depends on the size of the upward corporate group that needs reporting.