Marcus Glowasz

21/11/2023

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.

👉 Use the below link to redeem the promo code in Google Play, valid only this week:
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25/11/2022

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/

25/03/2022

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

27/02/2022

17/02/2022

Are you transforming your project management practice to become data-driven or data-informed? You may want to consider some common pitfalls as they easily can get overlooked when transitioning.

Data, analytics, and intelligent technology are making their way into the project management space, to ensure improved project performance and outcomes. And to make this work, there is naturally a lot of focus on the more technical aspects, such as data sourcing, tools and technology to use, data quality, etc.

While those aspects are certainly very important and require a well-drafted strategy, one easily could overlook the less technical, more behaviorally driven elements for such a transformation to succeed.

Defining a compelling and sound purpose to engage and guide is, therefore, one crucial piece for a successful transformation journey.

03/11/2021

Still good to remember...

01/11/2021

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

16/09/2021

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.

15/09/2021

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.

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“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.

13/09/2021

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

07/09/2021

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.

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How to spot the bu****it when making business decisions