TransparentChoice Blog
Insights, ideas, and inspiration for portfolio decision-makers.
Stop Digging: Why Poor Alignment Is Wrecking Your Strategy
Stakeholder Alignment: The not-so-secret key to PMO success
PMO Leaders and Leadership - What's the Secret?
Culture Can't Change? Don’t Tell That to the Ducks
Business Strategy and Portfolio Planning in a Changing World
Strategic Alignment: The secret to hitting your Business Goals
Why Some PMOs Make a Difference (and Others Just Make Reports)
Operations vs. Innovation? Is Your PMO Ready for the Age of Value?
Why Executives Don’t Speak Project Language (And Why That’s Okay)
People Eat Process for Breakfast (And Other PMO Truths)...
PMOs: Want More Speed? Then Stop Running So Fast
Capacity Planning & Scheduling
Why Don’t Executives “Get” the PMO? Bridging the Gap to Drive PMO Success
What to do when you think your PMO is good
Creating a Strategic PMO is a Zoo!
What has the PMO ever done for us? A conversation with PMO royalty!
PMO Service Catalogue Template - What Services Should Your PMO Offer?
Strategy Execution and Sesame Street
Crossing the Information Divide: How PMOs Can Communicate Strategic Value to Execs
The best PMO in the world - an interview
The Evolving Role of PMOs: Transforming into IMPACT Engines
Agile Governance: Streamlining Projects for Maximum Value
Pet Projects: Mythical Unicorns or Hungry Hippos?
Value-Based Prioritization: A Better Way to Select Projects
Goal-Oriented Management: How to Deliver Big Hairy Audacious Goals
Organizational Accountability and Its Role in Strategy Execution
Collaborative Strategy Building in a Digital World
Resource Capacity Planning: Insights and Best Practices
Strategic Goals – the Key to Strategic Execution
Project Completion: The Value of Getting Projects Done, Not Just Started
Discover the Secrets to Successful Business Transformation
Portfolio Governance - Insights, Strategies & Tips
6 PMO Tools to Keep Your Portfolios Aligned to Strategy
10 PMO Best Practices to Maximize the Strategic Value of Portfolios
Prioritization: Why people are so much more than resource
Who moved my resource? Why prioritization needs change management
Red Pill or Blue Pill: Fix Prioritization Now
Urgent action for all PMOs: Weed your projects!
Why AHP works for Prioritization
Prioritization - The Efficient Frontier
AHP: The foundation for a great portfolio in just 8 weeks
What’s the point of doing projects?
The Spreadsheet Paradox: Free to Use, But Costs Millions on Misaligned Projects
Optimize Project Flow: Make projects go faster by slowing down!
Einstein and the Strategic Advantage
PMOs and the Saddest Excel Joke…
Collaborative Decision Making - The Ultimate Guide
Too Many Projects - The Ultimate Guide
Noise in Decision-Making: Your decisions undermined daily!
Prioritization Spreadsheet: 6 Reasons It's Destroying Value
The Meg – Why Megaprojects Fail
PMO Cluedo - Murder in the Boardroom?
Strategy-Execution Gap: Is your CEO driving a Clown-car?
How to Identify PMO Value Proposition?
Another project failure? Time to align projects to strategy
Project Prioritization Matrix: Avoid These 4 Common Mistakes
PMOs Should Stop Prioritizing Demand!
Unlocking Your PMO’s Potential: From Underperformer to Champion
My Project Just Failed... or Did It?
Benefits Realization is easier than you think
Project Turnaround: Strategies to Rescue Failing Projects and Portfolios
Project managers are a waste of space. So are PMOs
Setting up a PMO: The Grand Design?
Is your PMO guaranteed to fail?
Agile Budgeting: Overcoming Budget Process Frustrations
70% of Executives not engaged; a PMO wake-up call
Only 50% of PMOs survive. Fight back!
McKinsey Research: 40% More Value from a Portfolio?
What has the PMO ever done for us?
What is Picking Projects Worth to a PMO?
Why is the budgeting process so difficult?
4 Ways to Improve Executive Sponsorship
The Importance of Confidence to Project Outcomes