Managing your project’s scope is critical to managing the expectations of your stakeholders and ensuring your project’s work breakdown structure (WBS), budget, and schedule remain aligned with the project’s scope …
Jan Schiller
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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; address regulations; achieving competitive advantage and much more. She writes about scope and portfolio management.
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3 Steps to creating a project portfolio roadmap
by Jan Schiller
When you are focused on results and work in a fluid project environment where expected results change frequently, it is very important to identify and manage all coordination points. Does …
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Empowering your project portfolio: What is empowerment?
by Jan Schiller
When you are empowered, you understand the importance of asking questions to reveal the information needed to ensure the success of your project portfolio, and leaders understand the importance of …
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12 Habits of an effective project portfolio manager
by Jan Schiller
I have had the pleasure of working with many effective project portfolio managers. I am a life-long learner and have learned a lot from talking with them and observing them …
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Part 2: Empowering Your Project Portfolio: How To Empower Effectively
by Jan Schiller
What are the benefits of empowerment and its importance? In my article, “Empowering your project portfolio: What is empowerment?” I helped you get clear on what empowerment is and is …
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4 Key similarities between Kanban and “The 4 disciplines of execution”
by Jan Schiller
I just finished reading the book, “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” (McChesney, Covey & Huling, 2016). As I was preparing to facilitate an introductory Kanban session, I noticed the similarities …
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7 Tips on how to improve your project team culture with affinity groups
by Jan Schiller
I just attended Colin Ellis’s keynote presentation, which provided wonderful advice on how to build the strongest project team. I took away several useful techniques, one of which was to …
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10 Characteristics of a rock-star project portfolio manager
by Jan Schiller
I have been listening to leaders describe the skills they have and those they think will be of critical importance in the digital age. I have focused my attention inward …
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14 Questions that can help identify project portfolio stakeholders
by Jan Schiller
In my recent article, Eight tips for identifying your project portfolio stakeholders, I mentioned that I keep a list of questions I have found to be effective in helping me …
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How to optimize the number of project portfolios for your organization?
by Jan Schiller
Have you ever wondered how many project portfolios you should have? Do you wish you had cohesive insights into your organization’s ability to achieve its strategies? Here are three guidelines …