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When someone comes to you with a question, show them how you got to the answer rather than just give it to them. If there is documentation, point them to it and tell them to come back when they've read it. You have to teach people not to rely on you. If the quickest way to their solution is always to ask you, they will continue doing it. Break the habit!
My team are so needy and incapable of figuring anything out independently that I've basically not got any of my sprint tasks done so far. So today I told them that I was working from home for a day to actually get done work done, but I'm on Slack if they really need me.
The only observable difference now is that instead of just bugging me, they start every conversation with, "sorry, I know you're busy, but..."
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