Behavioural Insights Team Awarded Contract for Behavioural Bias Research in Project Management

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The Department for Transport awarded a contract to the Behavioural Insights Team for a project to research, develop and roll-out experimental tools for addressing common behavioural biases and heuristics in judgement and decision making in project management.

The project, commissioned by DfT's Governance Division and the Social and Behavioural Research team, involved developing an evidence base on the availability of behavioural biases in project management, reviewing current departmental processes and systems for assessing such biases, developing potential tools to manage and reduce biases in project management and assurance, and developing a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of the tools.

The contract value was AUD 29,150.