A few months back a product manager joined our team which seemed to have experience with things that were new to me. For a few months I would always ask his opinion on the those matters hoping that he knows a thing or two more than me. Every time he would say a few things but nothing specific that assure me he know his way around such topics very well. Not that she was claiming to know more, it’s just I assumed she knows it and I always respected her opinion and tried to act in line with her suggestions. The more we go forward more I lose my confidence in her methods and more rely on my own intuition. I’m not trying to say she’s not good enough it’s just I was relying on her opinion because I was to weak to defend my own and actually make the decisions on my own terms. It’s a strange feeling when I review the past decisions I can really see the many times I delegated the decisions to her I could basically make a better or at least similar decision. In retrospective everything is obvious.