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20250214 Retro
🙌 What went well
- Pablo had a child ♥️
- Managed to survive and still get a lot of work done without Pablo
- Good organization and staying in touch with each other
- Office & Fun
- One of the best comilonas so far (upcoming vegetarian next week)
- New office is cool and much more convenient
- We have Cobee now!
- Delivery
- Solved all invoicing problems and urgent fires
- TMT is happy with us so we can feel confident we are doing well
- Updated all Legacy report still in use so we won’t discontinue
- Nice analysis
- New metrics and visualizations in Main KPIs looking great
- A/B test had good results
- New Dash is growing more and more
- Company is focusing on setting a strategy and key levers
🌱 What needs improvement
- Pablo is not here
- Massive context switching and pressure handling
- Lack of Engineering capability to do engineering work + challenge architectural decisions
- Airbyte CPU close to 100% for several weeks went unnoticed (though nothing broke)
- Other teams asking things we can’t handle (or will take a lot of time) because we don’t have an engineer despite all of this being discussed previous to Pablo’s departure
- RiF + additional people leaving:
- Unclear restructure, responsibilities, points of contact. Specially on Product team
- Unclear transition of Data team to RevOps
- There is a lot of insecurity as to how this will all keep on working with so many people being released or quitting
- Delivery
- Old dash invoicing issue
- People still asking for some adhoc request not through data captain
- Late dbt run production failures
- A/B test miscommunication / lack of certainty
- Priorities in some teams don’t seem to be very aligned yet with the recently presented north star
💡 Ideas for what to do differently
✔ Action items
- 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