Opinionated?

[rosenhouse]

$ grep -ri opinion areas-of-contribution/

nada.

I'm surprised we don't have anything about developing opinions, sharing opinions, engaging with others about their opinions, holding them loosely, etc.

Thanks to @rodolfo2488 for pointing this point.

[rnandi]

@rosenhouse and I had a chat about this PR. Couple things we talked about:

• Being opinionated is part of a bigger picture.
  Developing opinions and sharing them, by itself, is often not very productive. Eg: joining a CF team and sharing opinions about how Golang is bad or how a particular practice is not Agile often doesn't lead to productive outcomes. However, sharing your knowledge and experience in a concise, easily understandable, easily relatable, and timely manner such that your pair (or audience) can develop their own opinions and take actions based your knowledge without having to live through the experience themselves is very valuable. This is something that is missing from the areas-of-contribution and could be part of the 'CF Domain Expertise' area[1]. Would you be interested in creating a skill arc around this for that area?
• "Being opinionated" is a personality trait and could lead to biased feedback.
  In the vein of avoiding feedback that are personality traits we talked about staying away from words such as "being opinionated." There is also some research which indicates that being opinionated often works in favour of men in the workplace, but often works against women and non-binary people[2].

[1]: We had a separate chat about 'CF Domain Expertise' and potential to refactor it to something more generic to capture domain expertise in other areas too.
[2]: https://www.t-three.com/soak/insights/high-will-personalities-and-gender-bias