Bring clarity and control to incoming demand
TransparentChoice gives you a structured, transparent way to evaluate incoming requests, filter out low-value work, protect capacity and help leadership direct resources to the initiatives that matter most.
The Problem
Ideas and requests flood in from every direction, including departments, stakeholders, and customers, but there’s no consistent way to capture and evaluate them. Everything feels urgent, prioritization becomes reactive and political, and teams end up overwhelmed and off-course.
In other cases, there’s no simple way for front-line teams to surface ideas at all, so valuable opportunities never make it into the portfolio. Either way, the PMO is under pressure and demand is out of control.
The Solution
TransparentChoice gives you a structured, transparent way to manage demand. Define a data-driven “front door” that adds just enough structure to decision-making without turning the PMO into the template police.
Bring together priorities, value, risk, effort and other evidence so competing requests can be compared consistently. Then apply funding, capacity and other constraints to make the trade-offs explicit. Leadership can decide what deserves commitment, what should wait and what should not proceed.
Your Results with TransparentChoice
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✅ Compare Competing Requests
See requests side by side so leadership can compare their relative value, strategic priority and capacity needs before deciding where to commit resources.
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✅ Connect Demand to Strategy
Make the link between each request and current priorities explicit, so lower-value work is easier to challenge before it consumes scarce capacity.
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✅ Data-Driven Prioritization
Use AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) to structure and test priorities, make stakeholder judgement explicit and give leadership a consistent, transparent basis for comparing competing requests.
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✅ Match Demand to Capacity
Test which combination of requests fits available funding and capacity, so teams are not spread across more work than they can realistically support.
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✅ Stakeholder Buy-In
Make prioritization a collaborative, transparent process. When people see how decisions are made, they’re far more likely to support the outcome.
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✅ Focus Discussion on the Real Trade-Offs
Use scenario planning to compare realistic portfolio options and focus leadership discussion on the trade-offs that materially change what gets funded.
What Our Customers Say
We like to say yes to things... but not having a prioritised backlog was stressful.
How It Works with TransparentChoice
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Capture Requests
Collect ideas, project proposals, and change requests in a single, structured place.
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Define Stage Gates
Set the stages requests need to pass through, from early triage to detailed assessment, so the right evidence is available before each decision.
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Build the Decision Picture
Bring together stakeholder judgement, expected value, effort and other relevant evidence so competing requests can be compared on a consistent basis.
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Make the Trade-Offs Explicit
Compare competing demands against priorities, funding, capacity and other constraints so leadership can decide what deserves commitment, what should wait and what should not proceed.
Could this work for your demand and priorities?
Tell us what is competing for funding and capacity, how priorities are set and what leadership needs to decide. We’ll help you assess whether TransparentChoice fits.
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Why This Decision Matters
When Every Request Competes for Attention, Capacity Gets Allocated by Default
New requests keep arriving even when funding, people and leadership attention are already constrained.
Without explicit choices about relative priority, requests that attract the most attention can absorb capacity while other opportunities wait and existing commitments remain unchallenged.
Making those choices explicit gives leadership a clearer basis for deciding what deserves commitment now, what should wait and what should not proceed.