A free, ready-to-present PowerPoint dashboard — portfolio KPI cards, a RAG status table, an SPI/CPI trend view, a budget-burn chart and a risk-by-category breakdown — built from a companion Excel data file so the numbers behind the slide are never a black box.
The PowerPoint is what you actually present. The Excel file is what feeds it — swap in your own portfolio and every KPI on the slide recalculates.
A 4-slide PowerPoint status dashboard, sized to paste straight into your own steering committee pack.
The formula-driven workbook behind the deck's numbers — the source of truth, kept in the same folder as the deck.
Not forty metrics nobody checks — the six that catch a project going wrong before the status meeting does.
Above 1.0 = ahead of schedule, below = behind. Catches slippage before the go-live date does.
Above 1.0 = under budget for the work delivered. The first number every sponsor asks for.
Pairs with SPI — 60% complete can still be dangerously behind if the pace doesn't match.
How much of the budget is spent relative to how much work is actually done.
Green if both ≥0.95, Red if either <0.85, otherwise Amber — a rule, not a gut call.
Ranks where governance attention should go next — not a forecast of what will happen.
This is the same reading guide that closes the deck itself (slide 4) — what a PM should actually be scanning for, not just what's on the slide.
A project only earns Red when SPI or CPI drops below 0.85. Everything above that line is a conversation to have in the steering committee — not a crisis to escalate.
A portfolio can look "green" on report date and still be sliding underneath. The 6-month SPI/CPI trend catches drift a single-date view can't.
Probability × Impact tells you where governance attention should go next — use the category breakdown to prioritize, not to predict what will actually happen.
A stylized preview of the Portfolio Status slide — real KPI cards, real RAG logic, illustrative sample data (5 fictional projects, not client data).
| Project | RAG | SPI | CPI | Milestone Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Helix | Green | 1.06 | 1.10 | On Track — UAT Sign-off |
| Project Beacon | Amber | 0.91 | 0.93 | At Risk — Data Migration Complete |
| Project Summit | Green | 1.05 | 1.11 | On Track — Pilot Launch |
| Project Orbit | Red | 0.78 | 0.81 | Late — Vendor Integration Go-Live |
| Project Anchor | Green | 0.97 | 1.03 | On Track — Phase 2 Rollout |
One name + email unlocks this and every other free resource on acmpro.in/#resources — no repeat forms after that. Want the working Excel-only dashboard with live Power BI formulas instead? See the paid version →
No. This free deck is a static, ready-to-present PowerPoint snapshot — great for a steering committee pack, but you re-run it manually each period. The paid product is a live, formula-driven Excel dashboard (plus a Power BI build guide) that recalculates itself as you update task data.
Yes — every chart is a native PowerPoint chart, not a pasted image. Right-click → Edit Data to open its underlying chart data table.
Yes. Edit the companion Excel workbook's Portfolio, Risk Register and Trend sheets, then update the chart data tables in the PowerPoint (or the KPI cards' text boxes) to match.
Yes — same one-time gate as the other three free resources on the site. Sign up once with your name and email and every free resource unlocks instantly, on this browser, no repeat forms.
ACMPro — 25 years across IT and project management, corporate training and Power BI / analytics programmes. This is the same status-reporting framework taught in those sessions, packaged as a ready-to-use deck.