A 60-slide evaluation report is not rigor. It is lack of editing. And the cost of that lack of editing is paid, almost always, by the decision-maker who needs to read the thing.
We have moved most KP evaluation deliverables to a two-document structure: a short executive memo that leads with the findings and what they mean, and a longer technical appendix that any reader can go into if they want to see the methodology. The memo respects the reader’s time. The appendix respects the methodology. Neither compromises the other.
The work that produced the findings does not disappear because the report is shorter. It just stops being the first thing the reader has to wade through.
