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Discuss a blocker whenever you have one. But that would require me interrupting one or more people in the middle of whatever they are doing and possibly ruinin
by dagw 6y ago
Discuss a blocker whenever you have one.
But that would require me interrupting one or more people in the middle of whatever they are doing and possibly ruining their flow. Unless there is a very tight deadline, work on something else and bring up your blocker when you know the relevant people have time to listen.
- greenyoda 6y agoI also prefer not to interrupt others or to be interrupted. But if you send your problem as an e-mail, people can answer at their convenience. My own experience is that frequently, the act of thinking about an issue long enough to be able to formulate a coherent e-mail about it makes the solution jump out at me before I even send the message.
- dagw 6y agoIn truth I normally do both. I'll send an email flagging that there is a blocker I want to discuss at the next relevant opportunity. And I've also found that writing that email leads to me solving the problem at least 50% of the times (same with writing to forum posts of StackOverflow questions)
- thw0rted 6y agoIt sounds like your team doesn't have a chat tool (Slack, Teams, etc), or if they do, they're using it wrong.