A useful weekly delivery report for offshore developer…

Key takeaways

Report outcomes, not activity.
Show quality and blocked work.
End with decisions and owners.

Lead with outcomes

List the user or system behavior that changed, the review state, and the evidence. Ticket counts or hours do not explain whether the important work is usable.

Separate complete, in review, blocked, and deferred work.

Make risk visible

Include escaped defects, unresolved assumptions, dependency age, and review latency where they affect delivery. Use examples instead of an unsupported confidence score.

The report should help the delivery manager choose what to continue or escalate.

Close with decisions

Name the next action, owner, and checkpoint for each blocker. The developer can propose a path; the internal owner decides priority and accepted risk.

Link detailed evidence for the next time zone.

Questions about assessing Philippine developers

Should a weekly report include hours?

Only when schedule capacity is the decision. Outcomes, quality, blockers, and ownership are usually more useful.

Sources

Google SRE Workbook: Used for outcome and risk reporting.