> It can take a week just to get permission to call another team's API or a month to get an external vendor to respond to some critical question.
Sure, but you are still unlikely to realize that you're blocked by that exactly at the start of your day. Once your blockage has been communicated, likely in the middle of your day, the state will remain until you are unblocked. There is no value in repeating every day that you're still waiting on Outside Vendor. The blocking state has been addressed. It is known that nothing will change until the state has changed.
And it is not like Outside Vendor can update you in an internal stand-up on why it is taking them so long, given that they won't be present, so you're not even getting that value out of bringing it up again.
Sure, but you are still unlikely to realize that you're blocked by that exactly at the start of your day. Once your blockage has been communicated, likely in the middle of your day, the state will remain until you are unblocked. There is no value in repeating every day that you're still waiting on Outside Vendor. The blocking state has been addressed. It is known that nothing will change until the state has changed.
And it is not like Outside Vendor can update you in an internal stand-up on why it is taking them so long, given that they won't be present, so you're not even getting that value out of bringing it up again.