Blind Spot Analysis

Blind spot analysis “Avoiding common fatal flaws in decision making” By Vikas kumar(mca/4547/08) & Rakesh kumar(mca/4534/08)

Understanding the origin of Blind spot analysis 

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Blind spot is a biological term related to human eye and Neuroscience. What you think depends on what you see – Neuroscience.

Defining Blind spot analysis 

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Blind spot analysis is a method aimed at uncovering obsolete assumptions in a decision maker’s mental scheme of the environment. In other words, It uncovers flaws in the process of strategic decision making that are caused by bias and misinterpretation (may be due to incapability).

Resources of blind spots 

Misinterpretation

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Human incapability

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Human bias

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Fact ignorance

Misinterpretation 

Invalid assumptions

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Information filtering

Human bias 

Overconfidence

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Winners curse

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Escalating commitments

How it affects – a case study Project Planning

Scheduling

Cost estimation

Project scheduling 

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Ignorance of any requirements may lead to a blind spot for designing & procuring. And this spot may misguide the authority in project scheduling. And excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software.

Cost estimation 

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Due to lack of adequate knowledge (off-course, due to the spot during analysis), the authority may estimate the project cost less than whatever is required. And this wrong decision may be one of the main reason of project failure.

How to overcome this problem 

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Always keep in touch with environment externally and internally. Perform regular competitive intelligence program. Perform benchmark testing regularly.

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