"The hard part is that might mean working on nothing at all until your blocker is resolved. "
I think that this is the hardest part.
Sometimes that little blocker prevents us from moving forward, and we feel stuck, so we try to do something else in order to feel a little better...
Don't you think that trying to solve only the blocker could be a waste of time?
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What works for me is a sequence of actions to deal with blockers:
Flag it up, someone else may have a fix.
Prepare to pause, write up where you are and what stopped you, for your future self to resume cleanly :)
Set a timeout on fixing the blocker, then you know it won’t eat your life, and if you don’t get a fix, it’s a big issue that can go into the backlog or bug list.
Write up the fix, you are going to help someone sooner than you think!
"The hard part is that might mean working on nothing at all until your blocker is resolved. "
I think that this is the hardest part.
Sometimes that little blocker prevents us from moving forward, and we feel stuck, so we try to do something else in order to feel a little better...
Don't you think that trying to solve only the blocker could be a waste of time?
What works for me is a sequence of actions to deal with blockers:
Flag it up, someone else may have a fix.
Prepare to pause, write up where you are and what stopped you, for your future self to resume cleanly :)
Set a timeout on fixing the blocker, then you know it won’t eat your life, and if you don’t get a fix, it’s a big issue that can go into the backlog or bug list.
Write up the fix, you are going to help someone sooner than you think!
This is a great system!