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Leading Projects with Data: Overcome Behavioral and Cultural Barriers to Unlock the Hidden Value of Data in Projects
The use of data and analytics significantly improves project performance, but it requires a cultural foundation that connects and engages people, enables evidence-based thinking and facilitates new capabilities.
In an era of rapid change and an ever-increasing flow of information, data is a highly-valued asset.
Organizations are transforming business areas into data-driven practices to make better and faster decisions and respond accurately to fast-changing market behaviors and demands.
The project management domain cannot afford to be left behind. Old practices will not serve the sector in the twenty-first century. That means project delivery functions must embrace new and innovative ways to deliver change.
In this book, Marcus Glowasz argues the urgent need to employ data and analytics for improved project performance. Leading Projects with Data is full of actionable insights to drive the behaviors and culture shifts necessary to ensure a successful transition to data-informed project delivery practices.
A thriving practice needs people with the mindset to collaborate across boundaries, learn from failure, adapt to a new normal of frequent disruption and change, and value knowledge. Diversity, transparency, and critical thinking are key drivers in the new world of project management.
The future is here. Embrace it.
In an era of rapid change and an ever-increasing flow of information, data is a highly-valued asset.
Organizations are transforming business areas into data-driven practices to make better and faster decisions and respond accurately to fast-changing market behaviors and demands.
The project management domain cannot afford to be left behind. Old practices will not serve the sector in the twenty-first century. That means project delivery functions must embrace new and innovative ways to deliver change.
In this book, Marcus Glowasz argues the urgent need to employ data and analytics for improved project performance. Leading Projects with Data is full of actionable insights to drive the behaviors and culture shifts necessary to ensure a successful transition to data-informed project delivery practices.
A thriving practice needs people with the mindset to collaborate across boundaries, learn from failure, adapt to a new normal of frequent disruption and change, and value knowledge. Diversity, transparency, and critical thinking are key drivers in the new world of project management.
The future is here. Embrace it.
346 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2022
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About the author
Marcus Glowasz
1 bookMarcus Glowasz is a project management specialist, advisor, and change strategist with almost 30 years of experience in technology- and data-driven projects.
Having worked with numerous organizations from large corporates to small business practices around the globe, he is well versed in project best practices, including strategies to innovate and advance project delivery practices.
As a strategic change advisor and facilitator, Marcus works with global organizations, helping leaders and teams to shift their change delivery and risk management practices to future-proofed, evidence-based, and data-informed practices that align with today’s rapidly changing business environments.
Having worked with numerous organizations from large corporates to small business practices around the globe, he is well versed in project best practices, including strategies to innovate and advance project delivery practices.
As a strategic change advisor and facilitator, Marcus works with global organizations, helping leaders and teams to shift their change delivery and risk management practices to future-proofed, evidence-based, and data-informed practices that align with today’s rapidly changing business environments.
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January 4, 2023
I have not seen a more compressed knowledge in one book that covers data analytics, project management and the transformation of becoming more data-informed and evidence-driven.
This book is a must read if you are managing highly volatile projects and you are operating in an environment with a lot of uncertainty.
There is never one solution that fits it all in a complex world like ours. This book is exactly what you need to get started to transition to a more evidence-based management methodology. It serves as a staring point and it opened a whole new world for me.
I was already excited about the title. The more I read the more interested I became, right to the point I could not stop reading.
This books combines the data and management aspects together with the human side which includes behaviors and culture shifts. This is exactly what makes the book so valuable to me. Overcoming human biases and dealing with individual behaviors is what makes any transition a success or a failure. If you want to keep up with the fast paced world it is not enough to invest in the next best tool or software. You can only win if you invest in your team and shifting peoples mind is a starting point. This is what the book did for me.
I like the style and structure of the book which makes it a very enjoyable to read and easy to digest. It is packed with examples and knowledge I would not want to miss.
While reading I got so many ideas and I immediately started developing strategies for starting my own transition to become more data informed.
I am a project manager and I work in a highly volatile environment and this book is the best I have read in years.
This book is a must read if you are managing highly volatile projects and you are operating in an environment with a lot of uncertainty.
There is never one solution that fits it all in a complex world like ours. This book is exactly what you need to get started to transition to a more evidence-based management methodology. It serves as a staring point and it opened a whole new world for me.
I was already excited about the title. The more I read the more interested I became, right to the point I could not stop reading.
This books combines the data and management aspects together with the human side which includes behaviors and culture shifts. This is exactly what makes the book so valuable to me. Overcoming human biases and dealing with individual behaviors is what makes any transition a success or a failure. If you want to keep up with the fast paced world it is not enough to invest in the next best tool or software. You can only win if you invest in your team and shifting peoples mind is a starting point. This is what the book did for me.
I like the style and structure of the book which makes it a very enjoyable to read and easy to digest. It is packed with examples and knowledge I would not want to miss.
While reading I got so many ideas and I immediately started developing strategies for starting my own transition to become more data informed.
I am a project manager and I work in a highly volatile environment and this book is the best I have read in years.
October 21, 2024
The book is refreshing to read, but trivial in many points. Like the author says himself at the end, the goal of this book is to be a reminder - and for that, it can be much shorter.
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