1. Your Name or Team’s Member’s Names Current Date
Be creative. Use a more attractive theme/background for your slides. Relate the color theme to the project.
Project Name
Your Name or Team’s Member’s Names
Current Date

2. Project Summary/Overview
See page 407, Figure 10-3 for filling out the following:
Objective:
 Scope:
 Assumptions:
 Cost:
 Schedule:

3. Schedule
High level Gantt chart goes here. Summary level plus one more level. Remember this presentation is for management. They don’t need to see a lot of details. Plus you need to fit it on to this slide.
Use the Copy Picture feature in MS Project to create the Gantt chart. Steps in Appendix A.70 – A.76 and Chapter 10 Appendix A lecture notes.
Example:

4. Earned Value Chart
Insert the Earned Value chart here. See assignment instructions on setting the baseline. Also, see the Chapter 7 Appendix A.61 notes on the lectures page or this link: on how to create an earned value chart using the MS Project’s Visual Reports feature and Excel. Here’s an example:

5. Recommended Green Computing Project
Read the case study for background information. Your project sponsor wants to see at least one recommended green computing solution.
Go back to your Internet research on green computing (assignment 3, chapter 4). Pick one of the ideas and present it here. You may need more than one slide, but not too many!

6. Supplemental Documents
Create links to project documents here:
Project Charter (assignment 3, chapter 4)
Scope Statement (assignment 4, chapter 5)
MS Project Plan (.mpp file) contains the WBS, Network Diagram, Resources, etc.
Create reports from the Report menu in MS Project and save as .pdf files:
Project Summary Report
Milestone Report
Cash Flow Report
Budget Report
Earned Value Report
Any other report you think is important and that management might ask a question about.
To create links: right-click the text such as Project Summary Report, from the shortcut menu select Hyperlink…, then navigate to the file, select the file, click OK.