The importance of forming opinions in the engineering industry

Just 1 person saying and everyone agreeing to it is not the best way to make decisions!

Intro

We are making so many decisions every day in our great engineering industry. A lot of these decisions are team decisions.

To effectively make them, it’s important to have discussions that are as efficient as possible. Just 1 person saying what’s the best way to do it, would often not provide the best outcomes.

The best way to do it is that every person provides their opinion and a suggestion → then we swiftly decide based on set parameters, what is the best way to go.

And remember, even if “your opinion” has not been accepted, you’ve contributed to the discussion with your view. Which is huge. So don’t feel bad about it. The concept of disagree and commit is very powerful → make sure to do that.

I have asked Abhinav Yadav, a seasoned Engineering Leader and a Staff Engineering Manager, to tell us a bit about his experience of why forming opinions is so very important!

We are exchanging a LOT of opinions in our day-to-day work

A lot of the development work involves debating ideas, design…