January 2024

Learn the data skills that every project manager must have. Enable data-informed decisions for improved project performance and outcomes.

Marcus Glowasz

Project Management expert with 25+ years of experience in technology and data-driven projects. Certified PgMP, PMP, PMI-ACP, Prince2, MSP

Data Literacy for Project Managers

Deutsche Bank

Credit Suisse

The future of project management is data-driven.&nbsp; But only if project professionals have the right skills and mindset to enable data-driven insights. Recognizing that the root cause of many project failures and performnce shortfalls lies in ineffective and misinformed decision-making, this program focuses on empowering you with the knowledge and mindset to ensure your project decisions are robustly informed by data-driven insights. In this 4-week course, we delve into the core aspects that form the foundation of data literacy: fostering a mindset of positive skepticism, critical thinking, curiosity, and transparency. These attributes are crucial for navigating the complexities of project data, enabling you to identify, evaluate, and integrate factual evidence with human sensemaking.&nbsp; You will learn the fundamentals of project data, how to identify, evaluate, and integrate factual evidence with human sensemaking, to establish effective data-informed decision making in your projects.&nbsp; Furthermore, this course will equip you with a proven system and framework to effectively produce, maintain, and preserve project data and generate valuable and high-impact insights toward well-informed project decisions, improved project performance, and successful project delivery and outcomes. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you will apply what you learn in real-world scenarios, ensuring that the knowledge gained translates into actionable insights for your projects.&nbsp; This unique and tailored learning journey addresses specific project management challenges, including risk, cost, and schedule management, making it an indispensable resource for professionals seeking to enhance their impact and standing within their organizations. By the end of this course, you will be equipped with the essential skills to use data more effectively in your projects, fostering a culture of predictability, resilience, and evidence-driven practice. Embark on this journey to transform the way you manage projects, and pave the way for a future where data literacy is your strongest asset in achieving project excellence.

Engage with data for evidence-based project decisions.

Project Managers looking to master the necessary data skills to make effective use of data-driven practices in projects.

Heads of Project Management looking to future-proof their project management practice, getting equipped for future challenges.

PMO leaders looking to get a better understanding of existing project management challenges and how to address them with data capabilities.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Learn essential analytical techniques and practices that unlock hidden insights from project management data and help you plan and manage your projects with higher confidence.

Getting started with Data and Analytics in your Projects

Analyze and interpret data effectively to extract meaningful insights that support your arguments and recommendations.&nbsp;By crafting compelling narratives around the presented data, you will be able to captivate your audience and leave a lasting impact.

Back up your Management Presentations with Data-Driven Insights

Follow proven systems and frameworks to ensure effective project data management, identify appropriate data analysis methods and techniques, and generate actionable insights for data-informed decision-making in your projects.

Systems, Frameworks, and Best Practices to generate High-Impact Insights from your Project Data

Status reporting is more than just presenting facts and figures. It must include analysis and insights&nbsp;to facilitate understanding and decision-making. Selecting suitable charts and data visualizations not only ensures clarity but also drives impact and persuasion.

Enrich your Project Reporting with Insights from Data to drive Impact

Get equipped with the skills and mindset to approach information and decision-making with critical thinking at the forefront. It promotes a deeper understanding of data, encourages questioning and validation, and leads to more effective problem-solving.

Improve your Problem-Solving Skills

Falling into data traps can happen to anyone, not only data professionals but also project managers, decision-makers, and senior managers. Learn how to identify and avoid typical pitfalls in data collection, analysis, and presentation.&nbsp;

Avoid typical Data Pitfalls

Understanding project data concepts, types of project data, sources of project data, the key aspects of data analytics, and how they can be effectively applied in project management to improve project effectiveness and outcomes.

Project Data Fundamentals

Developing a mindset that values project data and knowledge. It includes measures to foster an environment of transparency, truthfulness, accountability, and collaboration across boundaries.

Data Culture & Ethics

To make use of data in a meaningful and useful way, it needs to be captured, curated, aggregated, and made accessible across the organization. Key topics include data storage, data democratization, and data quality.

Organizing Project Data

Developing skills to effectively collect relevant project data and information, deriving insights, balancing with experience and intuition, toward a comprehensive collective intelligence. Generate insights through sensemaking and align with stakeholder priorities.

Generating Insights

Learn how to effectively communicate insights from project data to stakeholders through compelling project dashboards, status reports, and management presentations, enhanced with effective visualizations and storytelling techniques.

Presenting & Communicating

Driving effective and sound decision-making in projects by incorporating data and actionable insights into the decision-making process. Ensure learning and development of practice from reflecting on data usage and actions taken.

Taking Action & reflection

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Each session includes live lectures, case studies, group activities, and Q&amp;A. Recording will be available, in case you need to drop off earlier.

Mondays & Wednesdays

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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