# 20250214 Retro

## 🙌 What went well

- Pablo had a child ♥️
    - Managed to survive and still get a lot of work done without Pablo
    - Good organization and staying in touch with each other
- Office & Fun
    - One of the best comilonas so far (upcoming vegetarian next week)
    - New office is cool and much more convenient
    - We have Cobee now!
- Delivery
    - Solved all invoicing problems and urgent fires
    - TMT is happy with us so we can feel confident we are doing well
    - Updated all Legacy report still in use so we won’t discontinue
    - Nice analysis
    - New metrics and visualizations in Main KPIs looking great
    - A/B test had good results
- New Dash is growing more and more
- Company is focusing on setting a strategy and key levers

## 🌱 What needs improvement

- Pablo is not here
    - Massive context switching and pressure handling
    - Lack of Engineering capability to do engineering work + challenge architectural decisions
    - Airbyte CPU close to 100% for several weeks went unnoticed (though nothing broke)
    - Other teams asking things we can’t handle (or will take a lot of time) because we don’t have an engineer despite all of this being discussed previous to Pablo’s departure
- RiF + additional people leaving:
    - Unclear restructure, responsibilities, points of contact. Specially on Product team
    - Unclear transition of Data team to RevOps
    - There is a lot of insecurity as to how this will all keep on working with so many people being released or quitting
- Delivery
    - Old dash invoicing issue
    - People still asking for some adhoc request not through data captain
    - Late dbt run production failures
    - A/B test miscommunication / lack of certainty
- Priorities in some teams don’t seem to be very aligned yet with the recently presented north star

## 💡 Ideas for what to do differently

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## ✔ Action items

- [x]  Retro with Ben C. around planning practices (centralization is not working, changing scopes too fast, etc).
    - [x]  Quiet Tuesdays and Quiet Thursdays
        - [x]  Move calendar recurring meetings
        - [x]  Give Ben C. a heads-up
- [ ]  Read Shape-up ([https://basecamp.com/shapeup/](https://basecamp.com/shapeup/)) and discuss next retro
- [ ]  Fuse Comilona and Retro and schedule for Monday 13/01 and make retros loooonger (2H)
- [ ]  Sketch roughly formalization of Domain Analysts programme
- [ ]  Discuss and agree with Tech team on data-alerts onboarding (should they be there? who should we tag?)
- [x]  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
- [ ]  Azure DevOps checks on DWH complete PR button to ensure branch is up-to-date with master branch
- [x]  Discuss with Ben C. New Dash retrospective with PMs/Dash Squad/Data by the EOY