Marcus Glowasz

Getting started with data-driven practices in projects just got easier: My book "Leading Projects with Data" with 70% discount on Google Play.

This book is a great starting point when planning to leverage data, analytics, and AI for your project management practice.

Getting to data-driven project delivery is no rocket science.

But it requires leadership to overcome the cultural barriers.

Typical blockers like:

→ Fixed mindsets baked into practice over the years
→ Biased behaviors specific to project management
→ Missing transparency and openness
→ Knowledge silos and lack of data sharing
→ Lack of diverse and critical thinking ..

My book "Leading Projects with Data" helps leaders to understand the typical behavioral and cultural blockers and how to address and overcome them to ensure the effective use of data in projects.

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GREAT NEWS: "Leading Projects with Data" is now available for pre-order on Amazon and select bookstores.

If you are keen to dive into data and analytics for the project management practice, then the starting point should be to get into the right mindset and build a cultural and behavioral foundation to make this journey successful.

Data and analytics clearly have the potential to significantly lift the performance of projects, make projects more reliable and efficient, and improve delivery effectiveness to achieve an organization's strategic goals.

But before diving into advanced and intelligent data technologies and their setup, it cannot be forgotten that project management is and will remain a people-centric discipline.

Hence, this book explores the cultural and behavioral aspects that are crucial for data and analytics to unleash their capabilities for improved project delivery performance.

The aim of this book is to serve as a guide to prepare the ground and enable data-informed practices for a true evidence-based project delivery discipline.

The book is available both as ebook and paperback.

https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Projects-Data-Overcome-Behavioral/dp/3033095224/

Don't miss next week's FREE webinar on how to address turbulence and uncertainty in projects.

Thursday, 31st March, 5:30pm (CET) / 11:30am (US Eastern)

Sign up here: https://eventbrite.com/e/getting-to-resilience-and-robustness-in-noisy-projects-registration-305011225787

Still good to remember...

This week is this year's International Project Management Day and I am excited to run an on-demand course on data-informed decision making in projects as part of this year's online conference organized by the International Institute for Learning.

Sign up at the below link to learn about effective decision-making in projects enhanced with insights from data - it is free for those who register for IPM Day 2021:

https://buff.ly/3Eso5XO

There is an increasing hype around data-driven predictions and decision-making.

But data itself will not provide insights.

Data can guide us to ask the right questions, which leads to insights.

Asking the right questions is the tricky part here and requires the ability of data sensemaking.

IT projects continue to be a significant challenge.

Frequent overruns despite many trainings, endless certifications, and agile methods.

What is the real problem?

While training initiatives as such aren't wrong, one needs to remember that project management is an evolutionary construct that requires an adaptive capacity, it requires frequent learning, adjustment, and rethinking of existing approaches.

But training for tools and basic techniques will certainly not improve things. PMs rather need to get the ability to adapt to new realities, unlearn and relearn, ask the right questions, and make use of changing environments and the opportunities therein.

https://buff.ly/3EeVqpM

Why No One Can Manage Projects, Especially Technology Projects “Project Management” is an enormous industry. Software, training, certifications and even Masters degrees – everything you can imagine to make us better at managing simple and complex projects. But we keep failing. Over and over again. Is there a solution? Yes.

Learn about the required steps to make projects robust and future-ready amid increasing uncertainty and complexity.

Download the FREE whitepaper: https://buff.ly/3E9AVeo

Are you a victim of bu****it in your organizational decision-making?
In today's data-driven world and the resulting increase of "fake news" aka bu****it, your organizational decision-making processes could easily become affected as well.

Today's modern organizations want to become truly data-driven and take advantage of the explosive growth of data and the opportunities it holds.

But in today's data hype, it is important to remember that data also holds a lot of noise which, if not properly treated, could mislead and distract, in other words, noise could turn into bu****it and eventually poison decision-making processes.

To avoid such a scenario, getting up to speed with data literacy skills is key, and that applies not only to the IT department.

If you want to learn more about how I could help you to avoid getting bu****itted, please message me.

https://buff.ly/3l4lb3l

Decision-Making in a World of Bu****it How to spot the bu****it when making business decisions

Are you an effective project knowledge gardener? Ensure your project management practice is truly evolving to overcome today's biggest project challenges.

Are you a Project Knowledge Gardener? Start preserving the knowledge to nurture the project management evolution with 3 simple steps

Honored to be speaking at this month's PMO Leadership Online Forum event of the Australian Institute of Project Management regarding the transition to a Future-Proofed PMO Capability, to strengthen the PMO's role as an important contributor to project performance and success.

Events and Classes for Project Managers - AIPM Our local, national and online events offer professional development & networking opportunities for project managers across Australia. Find an event today!

Data-Driven vs Data-Informed https://buff.ly/3gnpeXP

Why Projects Should Not Become Data-Driven Organizations are becoming data-driven — but their projects should not

Latest issue of 'The Paradigm Shift', the digital magazine of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), incl. my featured article about the changing role of the PMO https://buff.ly/3cC9vke

Download a FREE whitepaper on Data-Smart Project Management, and learn how data will boost project delivery success and reduce uncertainty.

FREE Whitepaper: Data-Smart Project Management How data will boost your project delivery success and reduce uncertainty in project management

Why traditional project management methods do not work anymore.

What Project Management Can Learn from COVID-19 The coronavirus pandemic is a call to action for Project Management innovation

Excited to be speaking at PMI Champlain Valley's Technical Project Mgmt Webinar Series this week. https://buff.ly/2MiGP6E

Looking forward to presenting this week's webinar "From Data to Knowledge: Unlocking the Power of Data for Project Success." for If you'd like to attend, please access: https://buff.ly/3hZspUC

Berlin's new airport finally opens: A story of failure and embarrassment

Berlin's new airport finally opens: A story of failure and embarrassment | DW | 31.10.2020 Conception to operation has taken 30 years, with seven missed opening dates — rather than a symbol of a revitalized German capital, the new airport has been one of Germany's most glaring public scandals in recent memory.

An all-time classic of an epic project failure - caused by planning fallacy and massively flawed decision-making based on numerous biases and the lack of information and learning.

A perfect example that demonstrates how urgent it is to innovate the project management practice with an analytics and data-driven approach towards truly data-informed decision-making in projects.

Looking forward to speaking about AI in Project Management at today's Virtual Professional Development Day 2020, organized by PMI Central Ohio Chapter. Many interesting topics and great speakers! There is still time to register at: https://buff.ly/3ea79t9

Excited to be speaking at IPMA's Best Practice Week about taking advantage of technology for the future of project management. See full program here: https://buff.ly/3m2GxgF

Delivered this week a session about AI-Powered Project Management for THE GIG ECONOMY Webinar Series, organized by Project Management Institute Champlain Valley.

Interesting insights from live surveys, incl. perceptions from the audience regarding potential challenges for a transition to a data-driven approach: Cost and time seem to play a significant role which means that a lot still needs to be done to provide awareness of the current project delivery challenges, and the clear benefits that a data-driven and AI-supported project delivery approach would provide.

Clearly, such transition is not a quick and easy one and it will require time and investment but organization leaders must understand the ROI of such an approach as it will provide a significant increase in project delivery effectiveness and efficiency and therefore also financial savings.

Change is inevitable and the traditional approach to project delivery is simply outdated and clearly not sustainable in today’s digitalized and data-driven world.

Final sessions this week as part of PMI Champlain Valley Chapter's Fall Webinar Series "The Gig Economy" https://buff.ly/30TVV6Z

Dark Data in Project Management - The hidden information that could make a difference for the delivery of projects.https://buff.ly/33giaW2

Really looking forward to this week's PMI Benelux Annual Congress, PM Fair 2020 - I will be talking about Dark Data in Project Management https://buff.ly/30dR405 PMI Luxembourg Chapter PMI Belgium Chapter

PMI Benelux Annual Congress / PM Fair 2020
Black Swans and Unknown Unknowns. Opportunity? Or threat?

Registrations to the PM Fair 2020 - PMI Benelux Annual Congress are now OPEN!

Be part of this unique event co-organised by the PMI Belgium, PMI Luxembourg and PMI Netherlands Chapters.

The congress will be spread over an entire week, from Monday the 28th of September, through to, and including, Saturday the 3rd of October. This year’s event will be virtual and not physical: we are going online. No physical face-to-face sessions are envisaged. Instead, the congress will be made up of a series of webinars, online workshops and master classes.

Please find the full program of the Congress following the link:
http://ow.ly/SQzd50Buv9q

You can register to each presentation / session according to your preferences! PDUs will be awarded for each session.

If you have any questions about the event, contact us at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you!