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