Can You Give Us Just A Little More Detail?

Bad Powerpoint!  Bad!  Bad!

Here’s a nice little slide built by some folks who work on a mission — not my personal cup of tea, but I’m glad to see people who actually step up and try to fix problems they see.

But their single slide tries to explain how they set up and execute a project.  They’ve managed to use just about every color and font in the box.  Lots of little type.  Vertical type, going two different directions!

What could we do with this, so that people would actually understand what we do, how we prepare, etc?

Sequential Slides  Let’s break this up into six separate slides that map to each of the major boxes. That would allow readable type.  That would allow clipart that meant something.

Show Timeline In Meaningful Measures  Unless you’re an experienced PM, you have no idea what “T-1 Weeks” means.  How about September, October, November…

No Vertical Type  Nuff said.

Headline “Example Project” — and keep it on every single slide

Little Words  Change “dialog on the potential of hosting a project” to “talk about a project”.

Then, if you must, show a slimmed-down version of this at the end of the series.