The Goldilocks of Project Portfolios
Speakers
Mike Hannan is a thought leader, best-selling author, and speaker on Project Portfolio Performance Improvement. With 25+ years of experience, he helps organizations—from Fortune 500s to start-ups—boost project flow, ROI, and strategic impact through practical, engaging insights.
Dan Dures is VP of Customer Success at TransparentChoice. With senior leadership experience at Just Eat, dunnhumby, and Home Retail Group, he brings expertise in data, strategy, and customer insight. He helps PMO leaders focus on projects that deliver real strategic value.
About this webinar
When it comes to resource planning, most project portfolios sit at one of two extremes: managed with intuition and spreadsheets, or buried inside complex, monolithic PPM systems (plus… even more spreadsheets). Yet resource planning is essential if you want to maximize the flow of successful projects in your portfolio.
- The “quick-and-dirty” intuition + spreadsheets approach is sloppy, based on hidden assumptions, impossible to keep current, and quickly breaks down as portfolios scale.
- The heavyweight PPM system approach is too complicated, reliant on questionable project-level plans, and equally impossible to keep current.
What’s needed is a Goldilocks approach — a way to combine the speed and simplicity of intuition with the power and rigor of a true portfolio management process.
That’s exactly what this session delivers. Through a unique mix of Decision Science, Operational Research, and Common Sense, we’ll show you how to find the “just enough” level of detail needed to run portfolios effectively — without boiling the ocean for data. This isn’t “best practice theater” for its own sake. Done well, it directly accelerates project flow and skyrockets ROI.
In this recorded webinar, guest expert Mike Hannan, founder of Fortezza Consulting, joins TransparentChoice to showcase a practical, best-of-both-worlds approach. You’ll see how portfolio leaders of any size or scale can apply it within minutes — and how a touch of AI can help make it faster, smarter, and easier to sustain.