What to do when mentors are leading the team in the wrong direction?

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

In the words of JVN, "Voting is not an engineering decision making process."

Also, howabout the people who are consistently in the minority? They will in fact feel more left out.

Voting by popular opinion is not an engineering decision making process.

But the process of analyzing each option, listing pros and cons, weighting them, deciding what levels of risks and tradeoffs are acceptable, can lead to a decision by consensus.

People who are consistently in the minority in this type of decision making tend to have different base criteria than the others. They have a different level of acceptable risk for example, or they are using decision factors not in everyone else's mindset (like "coolness factor").