Are you presenting a project status update? Illustrate the activities' status by using the Traffic Lights PowerPoint Template. You can show what projects have to Go and what is a No-Go by colorful RAG table icons. Use red, amber, and green to show the development stages of the tasks. We have created modern and simple PowerPoint Presentation Templates that you can use to enrich your Gantt charts or project review presentations.

This PPT template includes editable charts covering:

• 22 charts and slide layouts to present project calendars and the position of work activities. You can simply replace traffic light colors to indicate the status of a task and modify tables and text.
• 67 icons in 2 styles - universal flat outline. Use them to illustrate project types, activities status, company departments, project stages, communication, strategy, or product development.
• Format: fully customizable vector shapes (modify colors of charts or icons, resize without quality loss)

What are RAG status charts?

RAG acronym stands for Red, Amber, and Green traffic lights. Those symbols are used in Project Management, to indicate the progress of project activity, or Go / No-Go decisions. These symbols can be placed inside the Gantt chart to visually show the task status.

How to use RAG signs in PowerPoint?

You can create simple traffic signals from basic PPT designs or get one from this PPT template. Such signs can be placed next to the project name or inside status timetables. You can edit vector icons to change the color of light by simple color fill updates.

Why use RAG visuals in a presentation?

Those are simple recognizable signs that can be placed next to any content. Benefits of using them include:

• Colorful traffic signals indicate quickly the level of the project task.
• They help to give a big picture of the project activities position. With one look you can see the progress of the project by looking at the colors of the PowerPoint slide.
• Having attractive visuals will help get your presentation's attention much better than having text-heavy slides.
• When having editable signs, you can quickly recolor them to update their position over time.

Where to use traffic lights?

These PowerPoint templates are used in plenty of situations, not only strictly in a project management context:

• In the decision-making tree, by adding colorful signs next to decision nodes.
• Illustrate text list bullets to indicate if the item is positive or negative
• Show a progress tracker by placing a horizontally oriented traffic spotlight next to the item
• Present various roadmaps by adding road signs with spotlights to present if open, waiting, or closed passage.
• Explain company strategy milestones and show if the milestone has been reached already or is still to be done.

Status traffic lights icons are great when talking about project management and illustrating the state of activities. The PPT slides are ideal for illustrating GO/NOT GO concepts or displaying analyses and comparisons in your presentations. Besides this, with these designs, you can present annual or quarter project plans, activity timesheets, and IT project steps reviews. Change the text in boxes as per your own needs.

Status traffic lights graphics contain:

• Traffic lights diagram of factors for three items
• Traffic lights status diagram for three elements showed with description boxes
• HR recruitment project level table with RAG status indicators
• Pipe intersection infographics showed with process status lights
• Project stages roadmap slide illustrated with status RAG lights
• Strategy roadmap emphasizing objectives and status symbols
• Traffic lights status example for three, six elements with description boxes
• Three-column template showing RAG status diagram
• RAG figure for four and six elements
• Go / No Go project level indicators for six items template
• Go / No Go project evaluation status diagram for six items
• Traffic lights list of factors for two item sets on dark background
• Six months task status table diagram with traffic lights
• Quarter activity timesheet icons
• Annual project plan timesheet
• Annual IT project steps icons with a status review template
• Quarter project activity timesheet chart template with months and weeks
• Project status table slide with RAG indicators
• RAG status slide for risk assessment matrix table
• Risk factors illustration for six items with icons

In the last part of this deck, we added a set of icons you can use too, to illustrate the type of project activity or company department handling the task. You can extend this set by getting more business symbols (see Related Diagrams section).

All symbols, charts, and text colors are easy to modify (all graphics are in a vector format). So you can change them to the colors of your template or company brand.

Fully editable in PowerPoint set of vector shapes fully editable by using built-in PowerPoint tools

• changing the color of the icon filling and its outline
• adding shadows
• changing shape and size, rotating, flipping the object
• putting shapes behind or on top of text

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Further resources

To deepen your understanding and skills, we suggest exploring additional materials such as our blog and YouTube video, which are trusted sources dedicated to refining presentation decks:

• Blog with examples: Simplify Project Management Presentations with Traffic Light Graphics
• YouTube video: How to Show Progress in PowerPoint - TRAFFIC LIGHTS in PowerPoint