Defending your design opinions

I always thought that was hilarious too. It always makes me think. of the old engineers saying… if 9 women get pregnant you won’t get a baby in 1 month.

Definitely try to stay away from winning an argument based on qualifications, that just turns it a chest beating scenario and it usually only works once. What can work is referring to applicable experience, For example saying things like “this reminds me of a similar situation I was in 10 years ago at company x. Here is what we did wrong and right then… and here is how things maybe have changed in the marketplace since then… are there any learnings we could pull from that?” … kind of the same effect, but more informative vs “me smart, you dumb”.