World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 3, 2026 • Session details

Unbiased Decision-Making: Designing Better Decisions in High-Pressure Engineering Teams

Anna W Kriss Petersson

In 2018, high-pressure deadlines and cognitive bias led to a fatal autonomous crash. Learn how to use the DECIDE framework to bypass blind spots and engineer better decisions.

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Mitigating hardwired cognitive biases in technical decision making

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How cognitive biases impact software development decisions under pressure

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