The One-Page Template I Built as a Development Manager and Have Used in Every Role Since
I built this template when I was a development manager at a lighting manufacturing company
We had a complex product development process across multiple departments, and nobody was reading the full decks. Engineering focused on specs, marketing on launch dates, sourcing on lead times, and operations on production capacity. Everyone was right. Nobody was looking at the same thing.
I needed one page that showed the full picture. Every phase. Every owner. Every handoff. One view that any team member could look at and immediately understand where they were and what came next.
That template has stayed in my toolkit ever since. I have used it across product development, marketing launches, sales processes, cross-functional onboarding, and digital workflows. The phases change. The color codes change. The underlying logic does not.
If you work in an environment where complexity is high and alignment is hard, this is the tool I keep coming back to.
The version I use today looks nothing like the one I built at Aurora Lighting, but the structure is the same. A good template adapts to your process, not the other way around.
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Why One Page Works
A 15-slide deck puts the burden on your audience to hold the entire story in their head while you advance slides. A one-pager puts everyone on the same page, literally.
Your audience does not need to remember what was on slide 4. They do not need to ask you to go back. They can point to exactly where they are in the process and engage with the part that is relevant to them.
That is not just more efficient. It is a completely different kind of conversation.
Process maps are also living documents. The version I use today looks nothing like the one I built at Aurora Lighting, but the structure is the same. A good template adapts to your process, not the other way around.
What You Get
The template is a Google Slides file. It is already formatted with a 7-phase structure, color-coded by department, and designed to work at the smallest font size that is still readable on a projector or shared screen.
You can map it to any process. Product development phases work exactly as shown. Sales funnels, marketing workflows, and cross-functional launch sequences all adapt naturally to the same structure.
Examples of how to use it:
- Product development phase overview (the original use case)
- Digital marketing process and campaign flow
- New product launch from concept to go-live
- Sales funnel and pipeline stages
- Cross-functional team handoffs and responsibilities
- Onboarding flows for new team members or partners
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