Tag: training project manager

Project managers must avoid indecision as much as hasty and error-prone decision-making. Unfortunately, the unconscious mental quirks "heuristics" and "biases" frustrate these conflicting demands. Thus, a successful project manager must firmly command traditional decision-making techniques, and create awareness of these unconscious, deeply ingrained human traits. Traditional methodologies facilitate decisions with analysis and dispassionate facts. However, unless the project manager avoids cognitive heuristics and biases, he will inevitably suffer the consequences when seemingly objective decisions prove subjective in the end. Hence, good project management training teaches both the clinical methodologies...