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

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

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

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/) 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