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20250319 Retro

🙌 What went well

  • We can live without Pablo
    • Welcoming back Pablo with nothing burning
    • You guys have chewed through my leave wonderfully. Everyone happy and nothing has exploded. Good job!
  • Company situation
    • Clearer company strategy
    • It seems the dust has settled after the December/Jan company changes.
    • Data team has clearly been positioned as an important one in Truvi and we're on the table to decide where the company is going
  • Deliveries
    • Good advance with new reports (Churn Report, Resolutions)
    • New Main KPIs tab with targets and performance MTD & YTD
    • Excel training session
    • Data-driven alert spotting and communication (HTVR)
  • Work with other teams
    • Good organization between us and Matt to decide work priorities
    • Good collabs with Alex & Nathan
  • So far good adaptation to Truvi rebranding, though there is still work to be done.

🌱 What needs improvement

  • Company org and ways of working
    • Lack of communication of how is the hierarchy with recent changes
    • Many opened frontlines / context switching (despite it has reduced in the latest weeks)
    • Company organisation after RIF is still not clear, specially on Product side
    • Many fires still in Tech side
    • I don't see initiatives on the table that I feel will move the needle
  • Though training sessions of excel and power bi, help we need to find ways to make them more engaging for the users
  • We need more engineering skills within the team (despite nothing really extremely was broken in Pablos absence)

💡 Ideas for what to do differently

  • Folder and naming convention in DWH → we have CosmosDB + Core cases that end up in a Athena/E-Deposit/CIH/Resolution folder
  • Copilot paid version

✔ Action items

  • Get Copilot paid version
  • 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
  • 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

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