What's your best tactic for clearing cross-team dependencies?
In IT projects, I'm often blocked waiting on information from other teams. Chaser emails and calls eventually get an answer, but by then we've lost days and have to adjust the timeline.
I know dependencies are part of the job. What do you actually do to get responses on time and unblock yourself quickly and without damaging working relationships?
Personal experience welcome. Anything you do differently that reliably works? not textbook advice.