Debiasing Architectural Decision-Making: A Workshop-Based Training Approach
Cognitive biases distort the process of rational decision-making, including architectural decision-making. So far, no method has been empirically proven to reduce the impact of cognitive biases on architectural decision-making. We conducted an experiment in which 44 master’s degree graduate students took part. In teams of three to four people, they created two designs – before and after a debiasing workshop. We recorded this process and analysed how the participants discussed their decisions in both cases. In most cases (10 out of 12 groups), the teams’ reasoning improved after the workshop. Thus, we show that debiasing architectural decision-making is an attainable goal and provide a simple debiasing treatment that could easily be used when training software practitioners.
Fri 23 SepDisplayed time zone: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague change
11:00 - 12:30 | Architecture modeling, design and decision makingTools & Demos / Research Papers at S4 Chair(s): Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy, Luciano Baresi Politecnico di Milano | ||
11:00 5mFull-paper | From Informal Architecture Diagrams to Flexible Blended ModelsBest paper candidate Research Papers A: Robbert Jongeling Malardalen University, A: Federico Ciccozzi Malardalen University, A: Antonio Cicchetti Mälardalen University, A: Jan Carlson Malardalen University | ||
11:05 5mShort-paper | Debiasing Architectural Decision-Making: A Workshop-Based Training Approach Research Papers A: Klara Borowa Warsaw University of Technology, A: Maria Jarek , A: Gabriela Mystkowska , A: Weronika Paszko , A: Andrzej Zalewski | ||
11:10 5mShort-paper | Persistence Factories Architectural Design Pattern Research Papers | ||
11:15 5mShort-paper | Feature-based Investigation of Simulation Structure and Behaviour Research Papers A: Sandro Koch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), A: Robert Heinrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), A: Ralf Reussner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FZI - Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) | ||
11:20 5mDemonstration | Tool-based Attack Graph Estimation for Software Architectures Tools & Demos | ||
11:25 65mOther | Discussion Research Papers | ||
Each paper is presented as a 5-minute pitch talk at the beginning. The rest of the session is a discussion.
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