Overconfidence can be useful and effective, as long as it is reasonable and calibrated — Achieving high performance is primarily about having confidence. To set yourself up to reach your often ambitious goals and get to the very top, you can be as skilled and talented as much as you like but without the right level of confidence, you would just fail miserably. One might…

The often claimed information overload doesn’t really exist. It is our decision to get overloaded or not. — Information overload really means that we failed to filter information in our analysis. A common view is that the more information we can collect and feed into our decision-making processes, the more accurate our decisions will be. But what could feel like getting told the numbers of next time’s lottery…

Becoming Data-Driven is Less About Data and Technology But All About Culture and Mindset — Adopting data-driven practices in organizations is primarily a question of establishing the right culture and behaviors. Making use of big data and the capabilities of data analytics certainly is a significant contributor to more accurate and evidence-based decisions. But human sensemaking and reasoning are still very much relevant, even in…

It’s not all about data. Experience and intuition are still very relevant. And fake news is around the corner. — Data and Analytics help us to uncover otherwise hidden insights and inform decisions — but data does not know it all. The value that data provides in today’s information age is without a doubt significant and helps businesses to become better in their decision-making. With organizations more and more embarking…

How the ongoing data spill in projects harms the project management evolution — Effective project management has also to do with appropriately managing project data. In today’s age of big data and information overload, the right use of data and information is becoming critical and decisive in all business areas, including in the project management domain. But the increasing pace of change, along…

Resilience in projects is not about bouncing back — Resilience in today’s projects is really about taking advantage of the opportunities around us. With disruption and turbulence being the norm in today’s projects, teams are practically forced to redirect themselves rather than bounce back from an adverse event. The world became faster, and uncertainty and complexity are constantly on…

Why arguing that Agile is better than traditional methods is a barrier to project management evolution — Project Management is all about applying the right techniques and processes to a given project problem. It is the job of the project manager to make an initial assessment of a problem to solve and then come up with the best approach to deliver a project that provides a solution…

And why uncertainty is your ally to prosperity — Uncertainty is often seen as evil while it is something that helps us to progress. Uncertainty helps us to evolve, as it triggers attempts to brainstorm solutions targeted at eliminating the uncertainty. But since uncertainty will always remain in everything we are doing and planning to do, we are in…

The required truth and transparency that enables data-driven project management — Becoming data-driven in project management, by introducing data analytics or even AI practices, is a concept that is already on the agenda in many organizations. And when discussing transformation scenarios, people often ask me about the challenges for such transition, mainly referring to the different technological aspects, such as how…