Personal work update prompt

ChatGPT prompt for weekly standup update

Turn the last week of your assigned work into a clear standup update without writing a project report.

Best for: Individual contributors preparing weekly standups, team updates, or async check-ins.

ChatGPT prompt
You are helping me prepare my personal standup update for the last working week.

Summarize only my work from the source notes below. Write in the first person. Separate completed outcomes from activity, and do not take credit for work owned by someone else.

My name: [NAME]
My role: [ROLE]
Team or project: [TEAM OR PROJECT]
Reporting period: [START DATE TO END DATE]
Standup format or word limit: [FORMAT OR LIMIT]
My assigned cards, comments, and rough notes:
[PASTE YOUR WORK FROM THE LAST WEEK]

Prepare a standup update with:
1. Completed: outcomes I finished or moved forward last week.
2. In progress: work I am actively continuing.
3. Blockers: what is preventing progress, who or what I need, and the impact.
4. Next up: my two or three priorities for the coming week.
5. Questions or decisions: anything the team needs to answer.

Keep it concise and natural enough to say aloud. Prefer specific outcomes over task titles. Do not invent progress, dates, blockers, or ownership. If a note is unclear, put it under "Needs confirmation" instead of guessing.

Worked example output

Example input: one product designer's assigned cards and notes from the previous working week.

Example result
Weekly standup update

Completed
- I finished the responsive states for the new client onboarding flow and handed the approved screens to engineering.
- I reviewed the first implementation pass and resolved the spacing, validation, and empty-state comments that were ready for design input.
- I condensed the research findings into three changes for the account setup step.

In progress
- I am updating the invitation flow after Tuesday's accessibility review.
- I am preparing a smaller prototype to test whether users understand the workspace choice before they create a board.

Blockers
- I need the final permissions copy before I can complete the invitation error states. This could hold up the next engineering handoff if it is not confirmed by Wednesday.

Next up
- Finish the invitation flow and complete the engineering handoff.
- Test the workspace-choice prototype with three internal participants.
- Review the mobile build after the account setup changes are merged.

Questions or decisions
- Should guests see the workspace explanation before or after they accept an invitation?

Get a more reliable result

  1. Filter your board to cards assigned to you and include comments that explain what changed during the week.

  2. Paste outcomes and handoffs as well as completed cards so partially finished work is represented accurately.

  3. Give the model your team's usual standup format and word limit so the result is ready to share or say aloud.

Prompt questions

Is this a client report?

No. It is a first-person update of your own assigned work for a standup or async check-in. Use the weekly client status prompt when the audience is the client.

What should I paste in?

Filter the board to cards assigned to you and include comments that explain what changed. Give the model your team’s usual format and word limit.

Can it take credit for other people’s work?

The prompt tells the model not to. Completed outcomes stay separate from activity, and unclear notes go under "Needs confirmation."

Go from live Kanera work to a finished update.

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