Our Brains Suck at Planning: How to Reduce the Impact of Planning Fallacy

Monday, August 24, 2026 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM · 1 hr. (Europe/Berlin)
Stage 4 - Confex Level 1
Talk
~All~Leadership & HRProduction

Information

In this talk, Dimitri will dive into why even the best teams tend to underestimate scope and share some tips on how to de-bias your planning and roadmaps.

Topics
~All~Leadership & HRProduction
Track
Production
Session Type
Talk
Target Audiences
Producers, Leads, but in general anyone involved with planning (roadmap, sprint planning)
Experience Level
Intermediate
Key Take Aways
1. Awareness of the planning fallacy and other cognitive biases impacting planning, as awaraness if a first step to reduce their effects 2. Best practices to craft good estimates: understanding the difference between estimates and timebox, using uncertainty factor 3. Concrete actions on how to make roadmaps more accurate, such as gathering confidence scoring to trigger discussins about potential optimisic hypothesis taken when crafting roadmaps
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