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20241112 Retro

🙌 What went well

  • Incident Mgmt
    • Outlier tests in Main KPIs work surprisingly well
    • Problem detection and resolutions
    • We keep on spearheading incident management and doing things right
    • Incidents are finally hurting enough for TMT to pay (some) attention
  • Deliveries
    • KPIs refactor, including daily modelisation +1
    • Integration of Hubspot into DWH
    • Account Managers report (prev. Top Losers) being extremely useful and used by RevOps teams
    • Churn rate metrics computation
    • Starting Guest KPIs in new KPI modelisation
    • GUEST TAXES CROSSCHECK FINISHED (AT LAST)
  • Last Comilona was AMAZING
  • Domain Analysts advancing well +1
  • GJ A/B test alignment sessions
  • Guest squad is doing the Lords work
  • Not impacted by layoffs

🌱 What needs improvement

  • Incidents
    • Persistent bugs in BookingToProductBundle
    • Old invoicing incident
        • generally a lot of incidents all over the place
  • People
    • Layoffs communication sourness
    • Lou D. leaving us
  • Priorities and planning
    • Tons of unplanned work - delaying other deliverables for Q4 +2
    • Q1 company priorities still mostly focus on deliver new stuff rather than fixing core business
        • general misalignment between TMT and boots on the ground
  • Data Engineer vacancy not filled by now clearly impacting Q1 +2
  • Some Data Requests do not reach the channel, needs investigation
  • General doomloop sourness around New Dash, with no light at end of tunnel

💡 Ideas for what to do differently

  • New Dash retrospective with PMs/Dash Squad/Data by the EOY
  • CI/CD checks on DWH complete PR button to ensure branch is up-to-date with master branch
  • Modify data captain distribution
  • Include Tech Team in data alerts channel and tag them
  • Propose and discuss how to align with Tech team to avoid context switching and optimise time and effort

✔ Action items

  • If Data Engineer vacancy doesnt progress by end of september, pursue sign-off on consequences
    • Reassess DE plans
  • Discuss and agree with Tech team on data-alerts onboarding (should they be there? who should we tag?)
  • 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
  • Discuss with Ben C. New Dash retrospective with PMs/Dash Squad/Data by the EOY