What is RAG status charts?

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

How to use RAG Traffic Light signs in PowerPoint?

You can create s simple traffic light from basic PPT shapes or get one from this template. Such signs can be placed next to the project name or inside status timetables. Having editable vector icons allows you to change the color of light by simple color fill update.

Why to 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 signs indicate quickly the status of the project task.
They help to give a big picture of the project activities status. With one look you can see if there is a majority of red or green and what’s the progress of the project.
Having attractive visuals will help to get attention to your presentation much better than having text-heavy slides.
When having editable signs, you can quickly recolor them to update status over time.

Where to use traffic lights?

There are plenty of situations where you can add traffic light symbols. not only strictly in project management context:

In decision making tree, by adding RAG signs next to decision nodes.
Illustrate text list bullets to indicate if the item is positive or negative
Show a progress tracker by placing horizontally oriented traffic light next to the item
Present various roadmaps by adding road signs with traffic lights 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 graphics are great while talking about project management and illustrating the state of activities. They are a basic metaphor for red, amber and green. The traffic lights diagrams are ideal to illustrate GO/NOT GO concepts or to display analyses and comparisons in your presentations. Besides this, with traffic lights design, you can present annual or quarter project plans, activity timesheets, and IT project steps review. 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 status 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 status diagram for four and six elements
Go / No Go project status indicators for six items template
Go / No Go project evaluation status diagram for six items
Six months task status table diagram with traffic lights
Quarter activity timesheet graphics
Annual project plan timesheet
Annual IT project steps graphics with 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 diagram for six items with icons

In the last part of this deck, we added a set of icons you can use too, to additionally 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).

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

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

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

See editing demonstration in our HowTo Videos.

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