Writing is also a very useful tool for guiding/directing the conversation. Create a document that lays out the approach you want, share it, and then have a mee

Writing is also a very useful tool for guiding/directing the conversation. Create a document that lays out the approach you want, share it, and then have a meeting about it where people can react to it. If you get everyone together and try to decide something democratically, it's a shit show. Documents allow you to put a stake in the ground, and depending on how much colleagues care, what you write is 95% of what ends up in the product.