TransparentChoice Blog
Insights, ideas, and inspiration for portfolio decision-makers.

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?

Stakeholder Alignment: The not-so-secret key to PMO success

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