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 SchillerFebruary 22, 2021
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8 Tips for identifying your project portfolio stakeholders
Have you ever found out about a project in your organization’s project portfolio that impacted you, yet you were not contacted or involved? Have you ever had a stakeholder run across your testing playing field with additional scenarios right before…
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Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerFebruary 4, 2021
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Why having too many priorities is counterproductive to your top priority
Having more than one priority is the quickest way to diminish all of your priorities, especially your top priority. According to Dictionary.com, the word “priority” was coined around 1400, and it was not plural. Your organization’s top priority is more…
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Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerJanuary 28, 2021
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How to unlock project portfolio team success with organization charts
A project portfolio requires contributions from several, sometimes hundreds, of people. Your perspective of your project portfolio team matters. Making one shift can unleash the potential of your team and their ability to contribute to the project portfolio’s success. Organization…
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PMO and EPMO
Jan SchillerJanuary 21, 2021
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4 Crucial PMO staffing considerations
Are you finding it challenging to find and retain the talent you know you need to succeed in delivering valuable project management office (PMO) services? Do you wish you had the budget to acquire the talent you really need to…
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Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerDecember 14, 2020
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Money alone cannot promise project portfolio success
The budget for your new project portfolio designed to deliver your organization’s top strategy has just been approved. Congratulations! If you stop there, you will be experimenting with project portfolio success, because money does not do the work…people do! Do…
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Portfolio Management
Jan SchillerDecember 1, 2020
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Differentiating between outcome management, project management, and solution delivery
We manage so many things when we manage project portfolios. It is important to understand the difference between outcome management, project management, and solution delivery. The process of turning an idea into a result that delivers or contributes to a…
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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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