Jan Schiller

Jan Schiller, PMP, PSM1, FLMI, is a partner with Berkshire Consulting, LLC. She specializes in revealing the path from where an organization is to where they want to be. Over the past 30 years, Jan has been focused on linking strategy to results with project management in the financial services, investment, health, beverage, learning management and life sciences industries. She has helped her clients with the adoption of project management best practices; streamlining business processes; addressing regulations; achieving competitive advantage and much more. In addition to being quoted twice in PMNetwork Magazine, she's also discussed how to develop a PMO Project's scope statement on Phoenix Business RadioX (podcast). Jan writes about scope, portfolio management, methodologies, and PMO.

Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerNovember 16, 2020
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Part 2: Are your projects tracked instead of managed?
This is the second in a series of articles designed to help you determine how well projects in your portfolio are being managed. Part one of this series provided three indicators related to process, people, and results. This article is…
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Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerOctober 14, 2020
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Part 1: Are you managing your projects or just tracking them?
The word ‘track’ originated in the 15th century; usage of the word ‘track’ started to take off in the 1950s at a time when the world was recovering from many conflicts, and television usage began to rise. By definition, ‘track’…
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Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerSeptember 23, 2020
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The secret skill every project portfolio manager should have
If you are a project portfolio manager (PPM), you are talented. PPMs must be objective, credible, multi-taskers, great with ambiguity, authentic, capable, curious, and organized. Of course, PPMs are experts in all things project management and relationship management. There is…
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Project Scope
Jan SchillerSeptember 11, 2020
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How to best define your project’s footprint
You have just been selected to manage that big, important corporate project. You realize the project’s charter is nowhere to be found. How do you go about defining your project’s scope? Your project has a footprint. Your project’s scope defines…
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PMO and EPMO
Jan SchillerSeptember 10, 2020
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18 Misconceptions that decrease PMO’s value
Despite your best-laid plans, communications, and focus on delivering value, misconceptions about your project management office (PMO) can exist about nearly any aspect of the PMO. Letting those myths develop can lead to experimenting with PMO success because perception is…
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Project Scope
Jan SchillerAugust 31, 2020
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Don’t let your scope definition gather dust!
You have just been selected to manage that big, important corporate project. Now that you’ve defined your project’s scope, what do you do with it and how do you deal with scope change? Changes are a normal part of a…
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PMO and EPMO
Jan SchillerJune 30, 2020
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Know what you want your PMO to be when it grows up
If you want to know what your PMO will be when it grows up; you have to think past your first objective for your project management office (PMO) to your second and third objectives. Spend adequate time considering the evolution…
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PMO and EPMO
Jan SchillerMay 19, 2020
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Avoiding common PMO pitfalls
Establishing and growing a project management office (PMO) requires all of your powers of observation. These five areas should have your PMO’s attention. Culture There are entire books, presentations, and seminars dedicated to the topic of culture. Culture is the…
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Project Management
Jan SchillerApril 16, 2020
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20 Clues that project management can transform your legal prowess
Project management is more structured and complex than a document or case management solution. Many organizations want their legal services to be more disciplined, efficient, competitive, adaptive, profitable, and proactive with less leakage. Is your organization one of them? Project…
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Project Scope
Jan SchillerFebruary 27, 2020
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Techniques to make project scope management more manageable
Project scope management is always a challenge. Here’s how I effectively manage scope without appearing rigid or inflexible and get the change requestor’s skin in the game. When I set up a new project for success or stabilize a project…
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