Asking another team to prioritize your request
Your work is blocked on another team's queue and polite pings have stopped working.
Strategy
Trade information for priority. Give them the deadline, the consequence, and a smaller version they can actually say yes to this week.
How this one opens
I need to be straight about the API change request — it's blocking the launch, and I don't think that's landed in your queue as a blocker.
This is the first line of the full script for this exact situation.
What usually happens next
Most likely: an explanation of their own backlog, plus openness to a smaller scope if you carry part of the work.
One thing not to say
This is urgent for us
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