From the Dept. of Useless

Why do people include an Agenda slide when they are giving a 5 minute presentation?

You don't have to tell me what you will be telling me 45 seconds from now. Save your breath and my precious time and attention span. Get to the point! Are you afraid Ballista will get up and leave if you don't tell me of your "all important" topics ahead of time? Let me tell you something, Ballista wants to leave whether you show me an agenda or not.

Agendas are useful for keeping verbose and/or disorganized people in line during meetings of extended duration, say 30 minutes plus. Maybe even 20 minutes. Maybe. But not 5 minutes. Other than that, get them out of your PowerPoint.