We needed sign-off from three platform teams before we could ship. I went straight to my manager on day one — I didn't try to negotiate peer-to-peer first. She pulled everyone into a single call and we had alignment within a week.
Escalated to management immediately without attempting peer influence, leaving judgment under-demonstrated.
I needed sign-off from three platform teams before we could ship a new API surface. The sticking point was a shared auth dependency they owned. I scheduled a working session, walked through our rollout plan, and we shipped two weeks later.
Ran a sound process but never explains what made the auth dependency a sticking point or how it was resolved.
We needed the platform team's sign-off to ship, and they kept stalling. I realized they weren't blocking us out of stubbornness — they had three open incidents that month. I reframed our ask around their stability metrics, and they approved it within two days.
Diagnosed the real blocker — operational load — and reframed the ask around the other team's incentives.