How Zero-Risk Bias Affects your Product

Kevin Bendeler
3 min readJan 29, 2022

Zero-risk bias is a tendency to prefer the complete elimination of risk in a sub-part over alternatives with greater overall risk reduction. It often manifests in cases where decision makers address problems concerning health, safety, and the environment. It’s also a tendency I see a lot in management teams.

Zero-risk bias is based on the way people feel better if a risk is eliminated instead of…

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Kevin Bendeler

4X Top Writer — Associate Partner @ Heroes. I write about managing products, people, teams, organizations, strategy, and execution. Owner of scrum-store.com