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# 20241210 Retro
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## 🙌 What went well
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- **Delivery**
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- Good advance with KPIs reporting
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- A/A test showed there were some improvements needed in the tracking and Guest Squad quickly fixed it
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- Check-in hero & S&P integrations to DWH went smoothly
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- Migration of Athena CosmosDB container went smoothly
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- You guys (J&U) have been rocking it
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- **Methodology**
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- Quiet days are being helpful. More?
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- Documentation keeps helping us a lot
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- dbt docs working perfectly
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- Anaxi and Infra documentation is absolutely perfect for dumb analysts like Uri to handle actual DE work effectively
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- Tagging unplanned work in a dedicated epic to wrap up EOQ
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- Very good collaboration with APIs and Guest Squads
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- **Fun**
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- Cube and rollup workshop in love
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- EOY social activities (Quiz, Escape Room, Dinner)
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- Glad to see some upcoming python usage
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- And notebooks are very cool (used properly)
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- Domain analysts program +1
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## 🌱 What needs improvement
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- **Methodology**
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- Huge amounts of unplanned work - not being able to fully reach Q4 objectives
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- Very reactive quarter: spinning from one fire to the next
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- **Keeping things tidy**
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- Going crazy with PBI permissions: invisible tangle of who has access where
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- Having a better way to follow up on the usage of reports to see which ones are relevant
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- We are not doing great with cleaning up old stuff, tends to stick around permanently
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- Tech change management from MS Server changes side
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- New Dash reporting is still facing data quality issues from the source and it’s not prioritised
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- **Cachondeito**
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- Moar comilonas.
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- Kind of miss the office (an office and the bars, not Norssken specially)
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## 💡 Ideas for what to do differently
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- Change planning and organization to be a tad less reactive, have more time to tidy things up? Shape up? Change Data Captain role?
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- Kill SH legacy reporting to avoid confusion on KPIs
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- More syncs with RevOps (we do tons with Product, a bit with Finance, RevOps is the long forgotten son)
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- Put some order in our Notion
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- Make retros 2h
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## ✔ Action items
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- [x] If Data Engineer vacancy doesn’t progress by end of september, pursue sign-off on consequences
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- [x] Reassess DE plans
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- [ ] Retro with Ben C. around planning practices (centralization is not working, changing scopes too fast, etc).
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- [ ] Quiet Tuesdays and Quiet Thursdays
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- [ ] Move calendar recurring meetings
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- [ ] Give Ben C. a heads-up
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- [ ] Read Shape-up ([https://basecamp.com/shapeup/](https://basecamp.com/shapeup/)) and discuss next retro
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- [ ] Fuse Comilona and Retro and schedule for Monday 13/01 and make retros loooonger (2H)
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- [ ] Sketch roughly formalization of Domain Analysts programme
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- [ ] Discuss and agree with Tech team on data-alerts onboarding (should they be there? who should we tag?)
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- [ ] Think about how to make some kind of “PBI Homepage” where Superhog personnel can find all the PBIs that are available easily
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- [ ] Document all the config references (URLs, DB connection strings, credentials, etc)
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- [ ] Agree with Ben R. on a different way to manage permissions PBI
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- [ ] Potentially, also include CI checks in dbt repo
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- [ ] Make a cleaning day for Data Catalogue docs
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- [ ] Document existing invoicing processes, not just new ones
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- [ ] Azure DevOps checks on DWH complete PR button to ensure branch is up-to-date with master branch
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- [ ] Discuss with Ben C. New Dash retrospective with PMs/Dash Squad/Data by the EOY |