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20240611 Retro

🙌 What went well

  • Priorities and capacity
    • Data team has increased in capacity
    • TMT has a lot more visibility and alignment with us
    • Weve done a good job at structuring demand and ****keeping pushy stakeholders at bay
    • Adhoc/Data Captain deliveries have been flowing orders of magnitude better than in the Pablo-era
  • Team organization is working well
    • Internal collaboration is quite smooth so far (were good people 🙂)
    • VERY GOOD documentation in Notion, repositories, etc. on the Data stack
    • The way we are organizing the team and distributing the responsibilities, I really appreciate the tools we are using like the board that makes very easy to keep track of everyone's assignments.
    • I think the dailies are also very helpful to stay in contact and updated to what everyone is doing in their day to day work
  • I feel very comfortable with the team and the disposition of everyone to be very helpful inside and outside the office.

🌱 What needs improvement

  • Development workflow in dbt / PBI could be more agile and frictionless
  • Stakeholder visibility/relationship with other teams
    • Clear lack of data exposed / reported to business and product teams
    • Backlog of engineering dependencies/topics is messy and we drop balls
    • Data priorities and tempos visibility to the rest of the business
  • Data modelisation problems from the source (ex: guest journey end date needs tons of logic because it was not properly implemented, expected revenue figures, sources of Hosts, etc)
  • To have a documentation of all the data we can work with, maybe of the source tables.

💡 Ideas for what to do differently

  • Tooling
    • More hands-on development onboarding for Data
    • A bit complicated to review PBI reports - ensure these are exposed in our workspace for Data team reviews?
  • More connection with the engineering team
  • Start running dbt tests in production
  • Reduce bus factor for Data Engineering

✔ Action items

  • Formalize further the relationship between Data <> Engineering and dependencies
  • Backend documentation and know-how Productboard item
  • Simplify dumping of prd data to local environment
  • Add to backlog the creation of onboarding-hello-world-challenges
  • Discuss further hands in Engineering with Ben C.
  • Add dbt test to dbt run script
  • Kidnap staging workspace to make delivery

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