Cognitive bias in IT projects

It is common for human beings to believe that we are always right.

A lot of IT projects are not successful due to cognitive bias, as people tend not to know themselves.

Soft skills are at least as important as hard skills.

Cognitive biases are errors in our thinking patterns that can lead us to make incorrect judgments and decisions. Here are some of the most common cognitive biases:

1. Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms our preexisting beliefs and hypotheses.

2. Availability heuristic: the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events that are more memorable or easily recalled.

3. Anchoring bias: the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we receive when making decisions.

4. Hindsight bias: the tendency to overestimate our ability to have predicted an outcome after it has already occurred.

5. Halo effect: the tendency to form an overall impression of a person or object based on a single trait or characteristic

6. Overconfidence bias: the tendency to overestimate our own abilities and the accuracy of our judgments

7. Framing effect: the way in which information is presented can influence our decision-making and judgments.

8. Self-serving bias: the tendency to attribute our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors

9. Negativity bias: the tendency to focus more on negative information than positive information.

10.?Bandwagon effect: the tendency to do or believe things because many other people do or believe the same thing, regardless of the evidence or reasoning.

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