Principle 8 develop the presentation with the big picture in mind always start building the presentation
outline with a skeleton just like architects who first designed the entire building on a drawing board
or specialized software before the construction has actually started.
We should prepare our presentations with a complete outline first before populating the slides with
any content.
Each presentation requires time and effort to build.
So we should follow the best practice and project management to start with a good and complete plan
in mind before delving into the heavy lifting around content generation that may include research data
mining formatting and so on.
Having said that the initial presentation outline is not set in stone and there should always be flexibility
to amend it.
Once the preparation of a document has started that may be due for example to new information being
discovered halfway through the project or stakeholders changing their views.
This is a skeleton that can be changed and amended as required.
However the best thing to do when starting a new project is to prepare a complete document outline.
This is much better than the alternative approach of randomly generating slides.
We must have a plan in the next part of our course.
We will show you a detailed step by step guide that will teach you how to build corporate presentations
from scratch.