30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
Dev community mod - mostly light gardening & weeding out spam :)
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!
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!