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The manager is a busy person. Tell him/her the most important findings from the project at this point. This will help her/him follow the rest of your presentation, as he/she will know what things to be looking for. Specifically, tell her/him whether the objectives were met (and if not, why not) and what the major results were. It should refer only to the critical missing information that you presented in your objectives, and not to other intermediate results or findings.

Remember, your technical presentation is not a suspense novel. You don't have to build to a climax; in fact, you don't want to. You goal is to lead your audience through the details and make it as easy as possible for them to follow what you are saying (or are going to say). A general rule for presentations is to tell them what your are going to say (outline & summary here), then tell them (procedure & results/discussion here), and then tell them what you told them (conclusions & recommendations here). Also, always try to present the results with as positive a tone as possible.

last update: 01/23/00