If you're charged with sponsoring a project, a major part of your responsibility is managing status reports on the team's progress.
Executives need high-level summary information that encapsulates the main ideas. A good tool to facilitate this sort of conversation is a milestone map. This is a visual representation of the major project milestones laid out in a timeline with a snapshot of the status of each item.
Download this visualization tool in PowerPoint to illustrate major project activities quickly. In your executive status report, consider including a milestone map, major risks and issues, key decisions, and budget versus actual.
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