Mastering Project Prioritization

About this webinar

You can’t support everything. So what gives way? In this product demo, Stuart Easton shows LuAnn Piccard, former PMI Board Chair, TransparentChoice for the first time, from strategy to a portfolio the organisation can actually support.

LuAnn brings the view from the top. At HP she managed a very large global portfolio, and she describes the quarterly “waterline”: work above it gets done, work below it waits, and the “messy middle” right at the line is where leaders spend their time. Her point: unfinished work isn’t just zero value, it’s negative, because the time and resources can’t go to work that matters more. And because conditions keep changing, the list is never static.

The first part sets up the problem and LuAnn’s experience. The demo starts about 28 minutes in.

What you’ll see

• Turn strategy into priorities. Leaders weigh what matters using pairwise comparisons, so the logic is visible and can be challenged.
• Get the right people scoring. Finance, technical and business specialists assess the parts they know.
• Go beyond a ranked list. Apply capacity and funding limits to find a portfolio you can actually support.
• Change the answer live. Alter constraints, assumptions or must-do work and recompute during the discussion.
• See the trade-offs across portfolios. Explore value against spend and how scarce capacity is shared.
• Sequence the work. Time the selected projects against available capacity to cut overload and hotspots.

LuAnn closes on what this enables: delivery teams using the same criteria at decision points, flagging work that is no longer delivering, and taking evidence to their sponsors.