Stop Shoddy Thinking with Agile

Don’t Let Your Mental Wiring Derail Good Software Development

The Waterfall software development methodology originated in construction and manufacturing. When we began building software, it seemed like the logical path to take. You document your requirements, design the software, develop the software, test the software, then release it into product. Straight forward, right? But of course, our software development doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in a changing world, and requires the participation of a lot of humans, and humans are not capable of perfect logic. Agile software development acknowledges this reality and works with it. The Agile methodology understands humans are fallible and offers tools and techniques to address those gaps in logic. Understanding why these Agile techniques work can help you choose and customize the techniques your team most needs.

Let’s review what cognitive biases are and why humans have to deal with them, as well as taking a look at key areas where cognitive biases drive poor results. This article will describe some of the many tools and techniques that can work well with Agile development to make you and your team less likely to fall victim to cognitive biases. Finally, we’ll look at ways you might use cognitive biases to your benefit.

“Cognitive bias” is the phrase for those little gaps in logic that humans are prone to. A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from rationality in judgment. Why do humans have these systematic failings? Well, to understand the origin of these cognitive biases, we need to consider what the world was like when our natural manner of thinking developed. In our ancestral…

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