How to avoid project failures driven by overoptimistic schedules? Managers often attempt to mitigate the duration … and compare it to an alternative intervention of providing historical information about the average duration of similar … provision of historical information leads to more accurate project duration estimates. We also test whether it is more effective …

hazard, as people may respond to estimation accuracy incentives by strategically inflating project duration estimates and …

hazard, as people may respond to estimation accuracy incentives by strategically inflating project duration estimates and …

How to avoid project failures driven by overoptimistic schedules? Managers often attempt to mitigate the duration … and compare it to an alternative intervention of providing historical information about the average duration of similar … provision of historical information leads to more accurate project duration estimates. We also test whether it is more effective …

The success of a business project often relies on the accuracy of its project duration estimates. Inaccurate and … anchors, such as relatively uninformed suggestions or expectations of the duration of project tasks, play a role in the … duration estimates. We find strong anchoring effects and systematic estimation biases that do not vanish even after the task is …

uninformed suggestions or expectations of the duration of project tasks, play a role in the project estimating and planning … participants to provide their best duration estimates; (3) we test the persistence of the anchoring effect over a longer horizon …

interventions designed to mitigate the pervasive underestimation bias and improve the accuracy of project duration estimates: (1 … duration of similar projects in the past and (2) increasing the quality of available information prior to estimation by … information together with the project specification or only after the initial beliefs regarding the project duration are formed …

hazard, as people could respond to estimation accuracy incentives by strategically inflating duration estimates and …

hazard, as people could respond to estimation accuracy incentives by strategically inflating duration estimates and …