The first step they went wrong is using a slideshow in the first place. This was a time critical scenario, anyone who needed to be making decisions should have been part of the engineering discussions from the beginning. They should have been having interactive conversations going over what they knew and how they knew it. The engineers had no time to be making slides for a management and that wasn't interested enough to be in the room with them in the first place.
Slides make sense as a way to introduce the outline of concept to a broad audience in a way that requires much less effort than 1-on-1 discussions. They are not a means for coming to decisions. If you need to make a critical, life- and business-shaping decision off the back of a side deck, you should instead delegate the decision to someone who knows more than you.
Slides make sense as a way to introduce the outline of concept to a broad audience in a way that requires much less effort than 1-on-1 discussions. They are not a means for coming to decisions. If you need to make a critical, life- and business-shaping decision off the back of a side deck, you should instead delegate the decision to someone who knows more than you.