Data-Informed
Decision Making
in Projects
Empowering Projects through Data: Making Smarter and Timely Decisions for Project Success.
Unlock the power of data, transform data into information and actionable and verified project knowledge to shift your decision-making process to the next level, and drive project performance and success.


Purpose
Fostering a data-driven mindset where people understand the value of data in decision-making and are willing to embrace evidence-based insights over gut feelings or intuition.

Sensemaking
The availability and quality of data play a pivotal role in data-informed decision making. Identify relevant data sources, ensure data accuracy, and establish mechanisms for data collection and storage.

Forethought
Foster a data-driven project culture, promoting the value and impact of data, encouraging data-driven practices, and empowering project teams to embrace data in their day-to-day work.

Action
Incorporating data collection and analysis as a regular part of decision-making, which requires updates to decision-making frameworks to accommodate data-driven insights.
The Key Steps to
Data-Informed Decisions in Projects
In this workshop, attendees will take away practical tips to overcome usual barriers and unlock the power of data in the decision-making process. Following a data-informed decision-making framework, this workshop will provide the necessary techniques and mindset to effectively build and communicate insights from project data.
Project Data Concepts
Understanding project data concepts, data sources, types of project data, and its value for the decision-making process.
Culture & Behaviors
Identify potential shortfalls and gaps in project decision-making, and develop a more critical view towards one’s own cognitive limitations and their impact on decision-making.
Data Identification & Collection
Developing skills to articulate and frame the problem, articulate data requirements, identify data sources.
Analysis & Sensemaking
Turning data into information and actionable insights by analyzing and interpreting data through contextual knowledge, experience, intuition, and sensemaking.
Communicating with Project Data
Understanding the importance of data communication in project management. Key topics include data visualization and storytelling skills in the context of making an impact through evidence-driven communication.
Making Informed Decisions
Driving effective and sound decision-making in projects by incorporating data into the process. Key topics include the avoidance of decision paralysis, balancing different decision-maker types, and decision tracking and monitoring.

About the Workshop
A 2-day workshop program designed to enable project professionals to enhance their decision making capabilities and quality by harnessing the power of data and analytics.
The workshop is designed to provide immediate impact, with outcomes ready to be applied the next day.
The Data-Informed Decision Making for Projects workshop applies various techniques and group exercises to identify shortfalls and quality gaps in existing decision-making processes and scenarios.
This includes an emphasis on establishing a data-informed decision-making culture that is supported by a thorough understanding, appreciation, and awareness of data, information, and knowledge.
Using a data-informed decision-making framework, attendees will learn the steps that need to be taken to gain that understanding, what challenges need to be addressed, and the essential skills to adopt a data-informed decision-making approach.
Action plans are being elaborated to improve project decisions through the concepts of critical thinking, bias awareness and recognition, systems thinking, and an enhanced focus on process innovation, knowledge management, and enabling transparency.
What People will Learn
Analytical Questioning
Informed Decision-Making Methods
Self-Assessment and Improvement
Self-Assessment and Improvement
Self-Assessment and Improvement
Who this Workshop is for
- Project Managers, Leaders, and Teams
- Project Executives & Decision-Makers
- PMO Professionals
- Project Sponsors & Senior Stakeholders