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+# 20240709 Retro
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+## 🙌 What went well
+
+- **Delivery**
+    - Huge advancements on reporting capabilities (KPIs, Xero, Check in Hero, currency conversion)
+    - Important/critical data captain subjects moving forward
+- **Stakeholders**
+    - Good organization and advancing with tasks, good feedback from outside
+    - Priorities setting and alignment with stakeholders is now much leaner and efficient
+    - Awareness campaign with engineers around breaking stuff in Core
+- **Internal**
+    - Data Engineering super fast survival training program
+    - High quality approaches to tough bones: incidents, refactors, etc.
+
+## 🌱 What needs improvement
+
+- **Platform**
+    - Data drift is happening and we have no scheduled full-refreshes
+    - Dbt run in production not displaying alerts
+    - PBI Licenses/Group permissions are a (invisible) ball of hair
+    - Full-refreshing in local reaches the error “could not resize shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.4065550950" to 907743232 bytes: No space left on device”
+- **Documentation**
+    - Documentation on business KPIs, both technical (for Data) and broadly for consumers
+    - We’re dropping balls with some conventions (exposures documentation, keeping data catalogue up to date, etc)
+- Exploration of tables to check which ones have incomplete, outdated or wrong data
+- Not all stakeholders use the data request form still
+
+## 💡 Ideas for what to do differently
+
+- Hands-on knowledge sharing by diversifying working scopes (I feel we have clear ownerships of X products)
+- Capacity to focus without interruptions
+- Possibility of managing power bi active directories ourselves
+
+## ✔ Action items
+
+- [x]  Comilona soon™️
+- [ ]  Fix dbt alerts
+- [ ]  Agree with Ben R. on a different way to manage permissions
+- [ ]  Explore local environment postgres improvements
+- [ ]  Create Ticket to document KPIs dbt area
+- [x]  Checklists for dbt repo
+- [ ]  and PBI repo
+- [ ]  Potentially, also include CI checks in dbt repo
+- [ ]  Make a cleaning day for Data Catalogue docs
+- [ ]  90 minutes retros