"the less dominant personalities (and probably best coders) being ignored" WAT How are you going to get your skills recognized by your teammates, if you avoid

"the less dominant personalities (and probably best coders) being ignored" WAT How are you going to get your skills recognized by your teammates, if you avoid working with them? Of course you're being ignored by them: you're ignoring them the rest of the time! In my experience, in a context of technical arguments, great speakers with doubtful technical skills don't last very long against shy highly-skilled techies pointing out relevant weaknesses in the proposed solution, and asking tough questions.