[ankurdhama]

If you cannot convince someone of something then it basically means you yourself don't understand the concept/idea well enough and concretely. Generally people won't get convince about something if you just keep speaking abstract, hand waving ideas which is prevalent in Software Engineering folklore. Show them "real stuff", show them how approaching something in a specific way will lead to something tangible and useful for them and the project as well. And yeah, it has nothing to do with any specific group of people, it applies to everyone.

[davelnewton]

> If you cannot convince someone of something then it basically means you yourself don't understand the concept/idea well enough and concretely.

It takes two sides to have a meaningful communication. No matter how well I understand (or don't) something, the other person has to have the ability to step outside of where they're at in order to meet at some common ground.

In the generalized case you can't unilaterally blame a single side in a multi-party conversation.