Presentations
Executive presentation
Present so that a senior audience can decide rather than merely be informed.
Presenting to senior leadership.
The shape
- Bottom line
- Context
- Evidence
- Implication
- Decision or action
Why that order
Senior stakeholders do not need all the information reproduced. They need five answers: what is happening, why it matters, what the evidence shows, what it means, and what you need from them.
A worked example
- Bottom line
- We can complete the migration this quarter.
- Context
- 70 per cent of systems are already migrated.
- Evidence
- The remaining systems have no critical dependencies.
- Implication
- The major remaining risk is resource availability.
- Action
- We need approval for two additional engineers for the final six weeks.
You have it right when
The executive can answer four questions: what is happening, why does it matter, what do you recommend, and what do you need from me.
Built from
An application framework is a package. These are the reusable shapes inside it.
Practise it
Knowing the shape is about ten minutes of work. Running it while somebody senior is looking at you is a different thing, and that is what these are for.
Mostly serves Message, and reaches into Intent and Presence.
A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.
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