External blockers can be a frustration if they are blocking what you want to get done, but they can be blessing if they are blocking work you don't care about.

External blockers can be a frustration if they are blocking what you want to get done, but they can be blessing if they are blocking work you don't care about. So you can't move to the corporate VM for at least a quarter. Great! More time to do more interesting work instead! Keep your corporate integrations on the periphery so you can develop, test and ideally deploy the core code without dependencies on other departments. I mean this in both the code-architecture and org-chart senses. Accept that those integrations will move at the speed of bureaucracy, don't put them in the critical path, and continue to enjoy developing the core. If this isn't possible, then move on.