Decision Making Courses

PRDV228: Decision-Making

Learn a framework for decision-making and apply it to making choices in a short, self-paced course ending with a certificate final exam.

• Saylor University
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Explaining the Decision-Making Process of a Linux Kernel Subsystem Maintainer

An I2C subsystem maintainer explains how he weighs patch reviews and why a developer’s perspective can differ from a maintainer’s.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NDC Conferences

Critical Decision Making

A pilot-inspired framework helps teams make time-critical decisions, then test it in a pressured scenario exercise.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Decision Making in the Absence of Ground Truth

A method for predicting risk to strategically important assets when no relevant ground-truth data is available.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Pilot Critical Decision Making Skills

Learn the TDODAR framework pilots use to make time-critical team decisions, then practice applying it to a scenario in a timed exercise.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Julia Programming Language

MDPs - Markov Decision Processes - Decision Making Under Uncertainty Using POMDPs.jl

Explore Markov decision processes through a Julia grid-world implementation using value iteration, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo tree search.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX Enigma Conference

The Very Hungry Defender - Metamorphosing Security Decision-Making by Incorporating Opportunity Cost

Learn how incorporating opportunity cost and hidden organizational, user, employee, and societal costs can improve information security decisions.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX Enigma Conference

Metric Perversity and Bad Decision-Making

Learn how technically correct but perverse metrics can drive bad decisions, and how to avoid them amid adversaries, unknowns, and high-impact risks.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Decision-Making for Software Development Teams

Explore decision-making tools and techniques for software development, focusing on critical technical choices, shared processes, and adapting to organizational needs through visual content and practical exercises.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Decision Making & Heuristics

Explore decision models and heuristics for making software architecture choices under uncertainty, and learn when to weigh trade-offs carefully or decide with limited time.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Open Data Science

Data Science Supporting Clinical Decision Making - What, Why, How?

Explore how electronic health records and natural language processing can turn messy clinical documentation into structured data for surveillance, prediction, and personalized care.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Science Dojo

Translating Data into Effective Decisions - Data Driven Decision Making - Data-Backed Decisions

A systematic way to connect business metrics and actionable levers, using machine learning to make decisions under uncertainty.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NDC Conferences

Debug Your Thinking - Improving Decision-Making in Software Engineering

Explore how questioning assumptions and considering missed alternatives can make software engineering decisions more structured and balanced.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open Data Science

Interactive Explainable AI - Enhancing Trust and Decision-Making

Explore how human factors and interaction design shape explainable AI, with examples of interactive explanations.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BSidesLV

Negotiating Compromise: Promoting Better Security Decision Making Without Being Labeled a "Chicken Little"

Cybersecurity professionals can use negotiation techniques to temper fear, uncertainty, and doubt and help business leaders make stronger enterprise-wide security decisions.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video