Fantastic Biases & Where to Find Them in Software Development
summary
Catalog of specific cognitive biases (false consensus, affinity, present bias, anchoring, groupthink, availability) with concrete countermeasures: use blind recruiting and objective rubrics, target outreach and role models to increase diverse teams, break big work into micro‑tasks and enforce public sprint commitments to defeat present bias, run planning poker or simultaneous voting to remove anchors, require data visualization before decisions, rotate members or use one‑to‑four and devil’s advocate roles to break groupthink. Books: Thinking Fast and Slow; You Are Not So Smart; David McRaney.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Fantastic biases intro
- 1:15Speakers
- 3:46What are cognitive biases
- 6:14Why biases matter
- 7:20Haunted castle of dev
- 8:05False consensus in planning
- 13:09Affinity bias in recruiting
- 20:54Present bias in work
- 25:57Anchor effect in estimates
- 31:18Groupthink in reviews
- 38:27Availability bias in retros
- 45:30Q&A
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