# 20241008 Retro ## 🙌 What went well - **Team and Jarana** - Data Comilona + Meetup = Nice combo! +1 - We survived the period without Ben - **Data Platform** - No more dumps <3 - First usages of dbt versioning have worked nicely - dbt testing is working nicely so far - Performance and DevEx improvements in both production and dev environments have made things much better - **Delivery** - Hubspot integration in progress - Data requests feedback was very positive - KPIs sessions with PMs were quite insightful - Q3 was closed with success and everyone is happy, plans for Q4 are clear and aligned with everyone - Business Overview PBI app looks very good after latest changes from Joaquin - **Stakeholders** - New Dash/New Pricing much better communication with Product/Tech teams - Very happy to see that data quality improvements are being prioritised in Guest Squad (GJ completion date) ## 🌱 What needs improvement - **DE Vacancy** - Data engineer vacancy - Timing for Data Engineer is looking ugly - **New dash** - Still it’s quite confusing and time consuming to work on New Dash/New Pricing - New Dash/Tech/Product drama - **Other** - Edeposit invoicing misunderstanding ## 💡 Ideas for what to do differently - ## ✔ Action items - [ ] If Data Engineer vacancy doesn’t progress by end of september, pursue sign-off on consequences - [ ] Think about how to make some kind of “PBI Homepage” where Superhog personnel can find all the PBIs that are available easily - [ ] Document all the config references (URLs, DB connection strings, credentials, etc) - [ ] Agree with Ben R. on a different way to manage permissions PBI - [ ] Potentially, also include CI checks in dbt repo - [ ] Make a cleaning day for Data Catalogue docs - [ ] Document existing invoicing processes, not just new ones