# 20240611 Retro

## 🙌 What went well

- Priorities and capacity
    - Data team has increased in capacity
    - TMT has a lot more visibility and alignment with us
    - We’ve done a good job at structuring demand and ****keeping pushy stakeholders at bay
    - Adhoc/Data Captain deliveries have been flowing orders of magnitude better than in the Pablo-era
- Team organization is working well
    - Internal collaboration is quite smooth so far (we’re good people 🙂)
    - VERY GOOD documentation in Notion, repositories, etc. on the Data stack
    - The way we are organizing the team and distributing the responsibilities, I really appreciate the tools we are using like the board that makes very easy to keep track of everyone's assignments.
    - I think the dailies are also very helpful to stay in contact and updated to what everyone is doing in their day to day work
- I feel very comfortable with the team and the disposition of everyone to be very helpful inside and outside the office.

## 🌱 What needs improvement

- Development workflow in dbt / PBI could be more agile and frictionless
- Stakeholder visibility/relationship with other teams
    - Clear lack of data exposed / reported to business and product teams
    - Backlog of engineering dependencies/topics is messy and we drop balls
    - Data priorities and tempos visibility to the rest of the business
- Data modelisation problems from the source (ex: guest journey end date needs tons of logic because it was not properly implemented, expected revenue figures, sources of Hosts, etc)
- To have a documentation of all the data we can work with, maybe of the source tables.

## 💡 Ideas for what to do differently

- Tooling
    - More hands-on development onboarding for Data
    - A bit complicated to review PBI reports - ensure these are exposed in our workspace for Data team reviews?
- More connection with the engineering team
- Start running dbt tests in production
- Reduce bus factor for Data Engineering

## ✔ Action items

- [ ]  Formalize further the relationship between Data <> Engineering and dependencies
- [ ]  Backend documentation and know-how Productboard item
- [ ]  Simplify dumping of prd data to local environment
- [ ]  Add to backlog the creation of onboarding-hello-world-challenges
- [ ]  Discuss further hands in Engineering with Ben C.
- [ ]  Add `dbt test` to dbt run script
- [x]  Kidnap staging workspace to make delivery

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