Is your
project presentation ready for prime
time?
Your presentation
report is finished.
You are ready for
the status meeting
with your client.
Or are you?
After creating a
presentation report,
ask
yourself:
Does the
report explain
itself, or
need minimal
explanation?
While
you won’t just
say, “Here’s the report...see you later,”
a professional
presentation
will be easy to
read
with clearly
defined content.
Can it be
interpreted in
more than one way?
Generally, a
good project
report will be
interpreted
objectively.
Items on the
presentation
chart should be
unambiguous and
easy to read
with minimal
explanation.
Is the report
flexible enough
to respond
to your
audience’s
questions?
A flexible report can show
a project
overview with
the ability to
drilldown
to the details
when needed.
Or, if the customer asks,
“If Date X
changes, what
will be the
impact on
Date Y?”, can
your report show
the
impact on dependencies?
Can you
distinguish
between
projects,
phases and
tasks? An
indented
outline, as well
as text styles
and highlights, clearly separate
areas
of the project report.
"When I am working
on a problem I never
think about beauty.
I only think
about how to solve
the problem. But
when I have
finished, if the
solution is not
beautiful, I know it
is wrong.”
