# 20250505 Retro

## 🙌 What went well

- **Org**
    - It seems like dust is finally settling after RIF
    - New DevOps project to track Data Quality issues
- **Deliveries and WIP**
    - Nice project on the pipeline: data-driven flagging
        - +1
    - Good work with A/B testing
        - +1
    - Very nice updates in our reports (KPI targets, growth score, new dash adoption, resolutions payments,..)
    - Domain analysts growing
- **Company**
    - Last months were much better than previous ones from a financial perspective
- **Pura vida**
    - Loved Nepali food and all our comilonas
        - + infinite
    - Things are chill
    - Some holidays!
- A lot less data alerts recently

## 🌱 What needs improvement

- **Disorganization, misalignment**
    - Feeling like current lines of work are not really impactful
    - I feel company has become very disorganized. Management runs in circles in meetings, ICs do business as usual in complete disconnect.
    - Being pulled in in some mostly waste of time meetings
    - API team feels a little lost, it’s lacking a clear leader and communication
- **… which is causing …**
    - Things are too chill, routine is kicking in
    - We’re losing communication output (Data News not being sent on time, didn’t do training sessions on new reports, unclear output of illustrations A/B test)
        - And also quarterly planning and lookback
- **Technical**
    - The goddamn CI server is a headache
- Missing someone like Joan who kept us more in the loop with the guest team
- Finance new tracking of Host Resolutions broke Business Targets for a few days
- Massive involvement on HTVR invoicing discrepancies that should not really be on our scope

## 💡 Ideas for what to do differently

- Should we take the chance of the team’s anniversary to fully review our ways of working, rituals, systems, etc?
- Self-run with lines of work that we can lead independently

## ✔ Action items

- [ ]  Think about changing dbt model naming/structure conventions
    - Should `int/cross` be split into… something?
- [ ]  Request TMT clarity on org. structure again
- [ ]  Read Shape-up ([https://basecamp.com/shapeup/](https://basecamp.com/shapeup/)) and discuss next retro
- [ ]  Document all the config references (URLs, DB connection strings, credentials, etc)
- [ ]  Agree with Ben R. on a different way to manage permissions PBI
- [ ]  Make a cleaning day for Data Catalogue docs
- [ ]  Document existing invoicing processes, not just new ones