The Saboteur in Your Retrospectives: How Your Brain Works Against You - The Handout (Prairie.Code 2017)
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The document discusses cognitive biases and provides tips for recognizing and mitigating biases in retrospectives. It recommends being aware of biases, talking to others to understand different perspectives, focusing on controllable factors, recording decisions made to avoid hindsight bias, and building trust within the team. The document cautions against making excuses that blame others, using only positive or negative frames, trying to manipulate people, feeling bad about not predicting outcomes, seeking unnecessary information, and making hurried decisions under pressure.
The Saboteur in Your Retrospectives: How Your Brain Works Against You - The Handout (Prairie.Code 2017)
- 1. The Saboteur in Your Retrospectives The Handout REMEMBER! Awareness isyourprimarytool infightingbias! DO: Actuallytalktootherpeople andfindoutwhattheyvalue,andwhattheirexternal circumstancesare.(Narrative Bias,AttributionErrors) Be empathetictowardsotherpeople.(NarrativeBias,AttributionErrors) Rememberthatthe fartheran actionisfrom itseffects,the lesslikelyitisthatyour intuitionwill connectthe dots. (Narrative Bias) Recastpeople inyouroutgroupsas yourally.(AttributionErrors,EgocentricBias) Recordopinionsbefore discussion.(AnchoringandFramingEffects) Vote ontopicsto discuss.(AnchoringandFramingEffects) Focuson the thingsyour teamcan actuallycontrol.(Illusionof Control) Recordyour teams decisions,andwhatinformationledyoutomake them.(HindsightBias) Make sure youand your teamknowyourpurpose.(EgocentricBias) Buildtrustin yourteamand become BiasBuddies.(BiasBias) DONT: Be satisfiedwithexplanationsof eventsthatblame aperson.(Narrative Bias) Fall preyto the posthoc ergo propterhocfallacy.(Narrative Bias) Use framesthatare strictlypositive ornegativewhenproposingideas.(FramingEffect) Try to use complex processesorevenyourknowledgeof biasestomanipulatepeople.(Illusionof Control) Feel badbecause youshouldhave knownsomething.(HindsightBias) Procrastinate bycontinuingtoseekmore informationwhenyoudontneedit.(InformationBias) Make decisionsunderpressure!Cognitive loadmakesyou more likelytoacceptSystem1s outputwithout checkingitfirst.(All Cognitive Biases) LAST BUT NOT LEAST! If you do picka spiritanimalforyour System1, dontkidyourself itsstill apart of you.Takingtime to remember that periodicallywill preventyoufromdevelopingabadcase of self-loathing. RESOURCES Thinking,Fastand Slow Daniel Kahneman You AreNot So Smart DavidMcRaney You AreNowLess Dumb DavidMcRaney The Hidden Brain ShankarVedantam The Wikipedialistof Cognitive Biases Chase downthe primarysources!A lotof the studiesare inPDFformat forfree!