Meeting Title: Brainforge Linear and Insomnia Walkthrough Date: 2025-09-09 Meeting participants: Amber Lin, Justin Breshears
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1 00:00:14.240 ⇒ 00:00:15.460 Justin Breshears: Hello!
2 00:00:16.149 ⇒ 00:00:17.249 Amber Lin: Hi there!
3 00:00:17.830 ⇒ 00:00:18.760 Justin Breshears: How are you today?
4 00:00:19.690 ⇒ 00:00:21.730 Amber Lin: Doing better.
5 00:00:23.420 ⇒ 00:00:28.400 Amber Lin: Yeah, this room was very cold yesterday, so I brought a jacket so it feels better.
6 00:00:28.770 ⇒ 00:00:34.860 Justin Breshears: Nice. I wish I had that problem, but I work upstairs at my house, and all of, like, the heat in my house.
7 00:00:34.860 ⇒ 00:00:35.580 Amber Lin: Oh…
8 00:00:35.580 ⇒ 00:00:38.830 Justin Breshears: late in this room, so I’m usually the opposite. I’m usually swamped.
9 00:00:38.830 ⇒ 00:00:44.109 Amber Lin: I see. Okay. Was yesterday your first day?
10 00:00:44.110 ⇒ 00:00:44.959 Justin Breshears: It was, yes.
11 00:00:44.960 ⇒ 00:00:45.999 Amber Lin: How was it?
12 00:00:46.250 ⇒ 00:01:03.839 Justin Breshears: It was good. I… it’s a lot, because I’m just trying to, like, wrap my head around how everything’s being done right now. So I’ve been doing just, like, a lot of poking through, you know, Notion and… and everything, trying to learn. So, a lot of information, as it always is when you start something new, but,
13 00:01:04.420 ⇒ 00:01:13.960 Justin Breshears: I mean, part of the reason I’m excited to start with Brain Forges is I like all the people that I’ve met, and think that y’all are building something cool, so it’s exciting at the same time.
14 00:01:14.290 ⇒ 00:01:20.500 Amber Lin: Yeah, awesome. I know, let’s do linear first, and then let’s do Insomnia.
15 00:01:20.710 ⇒ 00:01:23.299 Justin Breshears: I think it’s all kind of, like, a hole, because, like.
16 00:01:23.450 ⇒ 00:01:23.960 Amber Lin: That’s what?
17 00:01:23.960 ⇒ 00:01:36.840 Justin Breshears: Robert said, too, like, I’ve been trying to kind of wrap my brain around, like, the current process of, like, how y’all do the Notion roadmap, and how it translates into linear, and it’s not really, like, clicking in my head, so I think it’s kind of like a…
18 00:01:37.350 ⇒ 00:01:47.050 Justin Breshears: a both thing. If we can, like, look at insomnia as the example, like, kind of learn how you have things set up in linear based on, like, the roadmap and stuff, I think it’ll help me wrap my brain around it a little bit more.
19 00:01:48.410 ⇒ 00:02:00.989 Amber Lin: Yeah, let’s… actually, we can just start there. So, I was working on a doc for Insomnia yesterday, and then Robert went ahead and edited it, so…
20 00:02:00.990 ⇒ 00:02:12.719 Amber Lin: Usually… let me share my screen, so… I think we should have this documented, but we might not. So first, we usually… we have recordings through meetings.
21 00:02:12.800 ⇒ 00:02:21.089 Amber Lin: for example, on Loom, or in this case, Robert has, or is this recording?
22 00:02:21.200 ⇒ 00:02:31.200 Amber Lin: Robert has this, recording. So usually, it’s better if it’s on Zoom, so I can get the transcript, but…
23 00:02:31.460 ⇒ 00:02:35.250 Amber Lin: I work with this note, and I take this…
24 00:02:35.390 ⇒ 00:02:47.059 Amber Lin: and I go to AI, and I go ask it, okay, create, a new scope of work with all the different work streams for me, and then it… this is what.
25 00:02:47.060 ⇒ 00:02:59.489 Justin Breshears: do that? I’m sorry, do you do that in the, like, Brainforge AI things? Because I noticed there was a project roadmap creator there. You can use that. You can use that, because these are essentially what these agents are, they’re just.
26 00:02:59.490 ⇒ 00:03:14.989 Amber Lin: prompts we’ve created so far. So if you can… you can use the prompt to go to ChatGPT and get the same thing, because we use, pretty much, we use the same agents behind these prompts, so we use ChatGPT or we use Claude, and…
27 00:03:14.990 ⇒ 00:03:21.110 Justin Breshears: And I wasn’t crazy that there wasn’t actually, like, a video recording of that meeting, because I was trying to find a recording
28 00:03:21.640 ⇒ 00:03:22.760 Justin Breshears: of it, but…
29 00:03:22.760 ⇒ 00:03:36.340 Amber Lin: Oh, no, it was… probably Robert didn’t record it, because I think Insomnia has probably stricter policies around that, so he had a, a granola recording, which is like a voice, AI…
30 00:03:36.340 ⇒ 00:03:36.720 Justin Breshears: Yeah.
31 00:03:36.720 ⇒ 00:03:37.470 Amber Lin: taking that.
32 00:03:37.470 ⇒ 00:03:37.930 Justin Breshears: Okay.
33 00:03:38.040 ⇒ 00:03:38.730 Amber Lin: Yeah.
34 00:03:38.730 ⇒ 00:03:42.119 Justin Breshears: Yeah, cause I thought it would be helpful to, like, watch the recording of it.
35 00:03:42.120 ⇒ 00:03:51.290 Amber Lin: Totally. So, let’s say… sometimes I also ask here, this is what I asked,
36 00:03:51.430 ⇒ 00:03:58.939 Amber Lin: grade A SOW with the… And work streams.
37 00:03:58.940 ⇒ 00:04:00.790 Justin Breshears: This is good, this is helpful.
38 00:04:00.790 ⇒ 00:04:04.980 Amber Lin: Yeah, I start here, or I go…
39 00:04:05.650 ⇒ 00:04:11.190 Amber Lin: I copied this, and I… you can… you can essentially just use this…
40 00:04:11.580 ⇒ 00:04:28.249 Amber Lin: this one, or use the roadmap creator. The prompts are pretty much the same. We also have an AI that helps you create the prompts if you don’t like it. And then I usually take this, and I edit it with… with AI. And so, in this case.
41 00:04:28.390 ⇒ 00:04:31.909 Amber Lin: So that’s how I go from transcript
42 00:04:31.910 ⇒ 00:04:48.400 Amber Lin: to a rough draft of a roadmap. And from there, because I lack the context, I usually ask Robert, hey, can you edit this? Can you give at least comments on, is this the right way? This is a lot of times when I use AI to create roadmaps. The milestones don’t make sense, and it… it…
43 00:04:48.400 ⇒ 00:04:53.190 Amber Lin: Makes sense, but it’s not the same project, so it’s… it can be very off.
44 00:04:53.280 ⇒ 00:04:55.840 Justin Breshears: Sure. So how… usually…
45 00:04:55.890 ⇒ 00:05:02.220 Amber Lin: Let’s say we have this roadmap, and we’re clear on, oh, okay, these are the milestones that we’re going to take.
46 00:05:02.560 ⇒ 00:05:04.500 Amber Lin: And I go into…
47 00:05:04.950 ⇒ 00:05:11.429 Amber Lin: I go into linear, and I… we go into these projects, so let’s create a…
48 00:05:11.880 ⇒ 00:05:23.290 Amber Lin: Let’s create a new project for this one. Let’s… what do we call this? Okay, these are…
49 00:05:24.200 ⇒ 00:05:30.709 Amber Lin: This is actually an ex… exam… expansion, so I don’t know how we’re gonna…
50 00:05:30.930 ⇒ 00:05:35.610 Amber Lin: Group it in, because these previous ones are separate projects.
51 00:05:37.950 ⇒ 00:05:42.380 Justin Breshears: Could we go to that, deck that Robert presented to them?
52 00:05:42.840 ⇒ 00:05:44.790 Justin Breshears: So I was kind of looking through that deck…
53 00:05:45.430 ⇒ 00:05:47.190 Amber Lin: And I think that might…
54 00:05:48.760 ⇒ 00:05:50.810 Justin Breshears: You can give us a project name, right?
55 00:05:55.840 ⇒ 00:06:02.009 Amber Lin: Hmm… This is what he had BEFORE, though.
56 00:06:02.410 ⇒ 00:06:03.660 Justin Breshears: Oh, that’s the old one.
57 00:06:03.660 ⇒ 00:06:07.509 Amber Lin: Yeah, he hasn’t edited this with the new scope yet.
58 00:06:07.720 ⇒ 00:06:11.350 Amber Lin: Gotcha. It’s my fault. I’ll just say marketing.
59 00:06:11.560 ⇒ 00:06:21.480 Amber Lin: Reasonably. Marketing Analytics. So, you can create projects by clicking that Create Project button, and then
60 00:06:21.520 ⇒ 00:06:39.340 Amber Lin: I think this is also a good walkthrough of linear, and once we go here, I use this every week, or when we do planning, I write an update here, but this is where we can add the different things, and we can add the milestones. So, for instance,
61 00:06:40.670 ⇒ 00:06:42.300 Amber Lin: Let’s see…
62 00:06:43.410 ⇒ 00:06:51.449 Justin Breshears: Quick question, too, that I put in there in the thread was, where do the statements of work live? Like, the contracts that we’re actually signing with them?
63 00:06:51.450 ⇒ 00:07:11.100 Amber Lin: The scope of works lives in sales, and then after that, I think everything is in the individual projects document space. So, for instance, the installment cookies, it goes here. So these are what engineers created when they needed to do, like, spikes, we have the roadmap, and then.
64 00:07:11.100 ⇒ 00:07:15.340 Justin Breshears: But if I, like, wanted to look at one of the SOWs, where could I go to find that?
65 00:07:15.650 ⇒ 00:07:19.120 Amber Lin: Let’s go to sales…
66 00:07:24.630 ⇒ 00:07:25.260 Amber Lin: 17.
67 00:07:25.260 ⇒ 00:07:29.010 Justin Breshears: Because I feel like looking at that and then, like, creating the epics and stuff from that…
68 00:07:29.010 ⇒ 00:07:29.500 Amber Lin: Hmm.
69 00:07:29.500 ⇒ 00:07:31.430 Justin Breshears: Linear would be helpful, right?
70 00:07:31.430 ⇒ 00:07:35.870 Amber Lin: It is, it’s just sometimes the sales doesn’t have SOWs.
71 00:07:36.300 ⇒ 00:07:37.570 Amber Lin: So that…
72 00:07:37.570 ⇒ 00:07:40.669 Justin Breshears: That assumption that we’re signing with the client, right?
73 00:07:40.670 ⇒ 00:07:56.110 Amber Lin: They have something, but usually, I think they take some… part of it, they take it from the calls that they do. So when I end up getting the SOWs, a lot of times it’s very, very high level.
74 00:07:56.520 ⇒ 00:08:02.020 Amber Lin: Gee, I don’t… I don’t know where that is. Insomnia.
75 00:08:03.460 ⇒ 00:08:06.139 Amber Lin: Let’s see…
76 00:08:13.220 ⇒ 00:08:14.130 Amber Lin: Yeah.
77 00:08:14.510 ⇒ 00:08:18.529 Amber Lin: So, let’s see if we can go to the top, and if there’s anything here…
78 00:08:26.440 ⇒ 00:08:28.050 Amber Lin: Mr. Sewer.
79 00:08:29.330 ⇒ 00:08:44.490 Amber Lin: Yeah, this is from the scoping call that Robert had with them. I already… I think I already took what he… the notes that he had to convert it into a roadmap, because it wasn’t a formal SOW. It was more of a scoping call.
80 00:08:45.490 ⇒ 00:08:46.080 Justin Breshears: Gotcha.
81 00:08:52.090 ⇒ 00:08:52.930 Amber Lin: Yeah.
82 00:08:54.190 ⇒ 00:09:06.350 Amber Lin: And generally, after, say, the main milestones and work streams are set, I usually take this, just copy-paste this, and I ask…
83 00:09:06.600 ⇒ 00:09:15.470 Amber Lin: I have the different projects in ChatGPT for the different clients, and I say, ranked… Milestones…
84 00:09:15.570 ⇒ 00:09:18.900 Amber Lin: edit tickets… Where this…
85 00:09:20.260 ⇒ 00:09:31.339 Amber Lin: And you can specify how you want the tickets to be. I usually put that in the project’s prompt, so whenever they create tickets, they have a title, description,
86 00:09:31.740 ⇒ 00:09:34.069 Amber Lin: Acceptance criteria…
87 00:09:34.220 ⇒ 00:09:54.060 Amber Lin: estimates, and then we add due dates as we pulled them into planning. And so this is a rough draft that it created based on what we sent it, and let’s say if we think these tickets are valid, then we copy it over.
88 00:09:54.130 ⇒ 00:09:55.930 Amber Lin: into linear.
89 00:09:56.460 ⇒ 00:10:00.859 Amber Lin: And then… You can add the milestones.
90 00:10:00.980 ⇒ 00:10:05.690 Amber Lin: For instance, we want to add Milestone 1 over here.
91 00:10:05.810 ⇒ 00:10:11.670 Amber Lin: We would add the name here.
92 00:10:12.200 ⇒ 00:10:15.070 Amber Lin: And then you can select.
93 00:10:16.130 ⇒ 00:10:21.519 Amber Lin: And click this to turn that into a ticket, and it automatically…
94 00:10:21.640 ⇒ 00:10:33.000 Amber Lin: adds it to these milestones when you create the ticket under here. So then, I usually filter by milestone.
95 00:10:33.050 ⇒ 00:10:34.809 Justin Breshears: How did you create the tickets?
96 00:10:35.080 ⇒ 00:10:40.889 Amber Lin: So if you go here, you select… Let’s say…
97 00:10:49.910 ⇒ 00:10:51.250 Amber Lin: Let’s see…
98 00:10:51.890 ⇒ 00:11:05.770 Amber Lin: Yeah, let’s say, for instance, you want to create these. You go under the milestone, you click plus milestone, and whatever text is under the milestone, if you select this.
99 00:11:06.210 ⇒ 00:11:14.659 Amber Lin: And then you turn… click plus, it will create these tickets under the milestone, so you don’t have to add them one by one.
100 00:11:14.660 ⇒ 00:11:15.270 Justin Breshears: Yeah, that’s nice.
101 00:11:15.270 ⇒ 00:11:31.139 Amber Lin: Yeah, but otherwise, if you want to, and you can change the display here to group by milestone, group by assignee, or status, I usually switch between milestone and assignee, but I know other people have different preferences. And then…
102 00:11:31.690 ⇒ 00:11:48.249 Amber Lin: For an individual ticket, there are some shortcuts in linear. If you use X, it selects, and then you can, these are all the shortcuts you can use, but you can always right-click and then change the status, assignee, change the cycle.
103 00:11:48.550 ⇒ 00:11:50.560 Amber Lin: And then have that set up.
104 00:11:50.560 ⇒ 00:11:52.829 Justin Breshears: Yeah, cycle, like, sprints.
105 00:11:52.830 ⇒ 00:11:54.399 Amber Lin: Cycle is a sprint, yeah.
106 00:11:54.400 ⇒ 00:11:56.210 Justin Breshears: Yeah, okay.
107 00:11:56.480 ⇒ 00:12:10.039 Amber Lin: So, in team settings, you can enable cycles. So, here you can set, okay, you want the cycle to last a week, 2 weeks, three weeks, when does it start, if there’s any cool-downs?
108 00:12:10.040 ⇒ 00:12:18.170 Amber Lin: And to pre-create how many cycles in advance. And… yeah, and here are…
109 00:12:18.790 ⇒ 00:12:32.440 Amber Lin: I think here are the current statuses we use. I don’t use the ones in backlog as much, but they will be helpful in grooming, and then we have to-do, in progress, needs response, blocked.
110 00:12:32.500 ⇒ 00:12:43.290 Amber Lin: escalation. We can consolidate these if the… if that’s helpful. And then… let’s see… So, for instance.
111 00:12:44.570 ⇒ 00:12:47.790 Amber Lin: in Eden right now,
112 00:12:48.760 ⇒ 00:13:02.119 Amber Lin: There’s a burned down, burn-up chart over here, so on the right-hand corner, as long as you enable the cycles, and you click on current cycle, you can see this chart on the right.
113 00:13:02.120 ⇒ 00:13:15.829 Amber Lin: And then you can also go here to go see, okay, I want to see it by, effort, or I want to see how long it has been in there, and then you can group by assignee to say, okay, Henry has 25 points.
114 00:13:15.840 ⇒ 00:13:22.389 Amber Lin: Wish has 11, Amber has 1, so that gives you a higher level view of…
115 00:13:22.920 ⇒ 00:13:29.749 Amber Lin: how things are, and I usually, at stand-ups, I filter by assignee, and then I go through…
116 00:13:29.910 ⇒ 00:13:39.199 Amber Lin: assignee, and then order by status, so I can go through this and, check everybody’s progress.
117 00:13:40.170 ⇒ 00:13:40.750 Justin Breshears: Perfect.
118 00:13:41.010 ⇒ 00:13:44.169 Amber Lin: Yeah, when I do plan, yeah, go ahead.
119 00:13:44.170 ⇒ 00:13:47.619 Justin Breshears: I think in the notes they said,
120 00:13:48.120 ⇒ 00:13:52.640 Justin Breshears: Looking at the new con- the new contract being 20 hours a week of work?
121 00:13:53.090 ⇒ 00:13:59.220 Justin Breshears: For this insomnia deal? So is that how you’re basing the cycles off of?
122 00:13:59.800 ⇒ 00:14:04.079 Justin Breshears: If you were to plan the work for each cycle, you’re looking at 20 hours a week?
123 00:14:04.530 ⇒ 00:14:10.719 Amber Lin: Yeah, approximately. So right now, we don’t really have… right now, we’re hourly, and we don’t have a cap, so we just…
124 00:14:10.720 ⇒ 00:14:25.200 Amber Lin: It’s just very ad hoc of, if we need to do work, we’ll do work. But usually when I plan for Eden, I know… so every month we do an allocation in operating, and then that tells us, okay, this person has, say.
125 00:14:25.200 ⇒ 00:14:26.700 Amber Lin: 10 hours a week.
126 00:14:26.700 ⇒ 00:14:37.029 Amber Lin: That means this cycle, they have 20 hours, which, using our current point system, is about 10 points. And when we do the planning, we check, okay, are they still at 10 points?
127 00:14:37.050 ⇒ 00:14:41.500 Amber Lin: So that’s how I… that’s how I would plan the cycle.
128 00:14:42.280 ⇒ 00:14:44.209 Amber Lin: Gotcha. Makes sense.
129 00:14:50.480 ⇒ 00:15:00.290 Amber Lin: Yeah, and I think one of the efforts we can do, and Alex also recommended when we first started Q3, is that to have
130 00:15:00.560 ⇒ 00:15:18.580 Amber Lin: someone in sales let us know when there is a new SOW. We wanted to do that with the original sales coordinator, it didn’t really go through. So, right now, I think you saw it at the delivery meeting, so…
131 00:15:19.250 ⇒ 00:15:21.090 Amber Lin: Generally, 3…
132 00:15:25.110 ⇒ 00:15:31.239 Amber Lin: So right now, this is how I know what new contracts are coming in, so…
133 00:15:31.280 ⇒ 00:15:44.430 Amber Lin: Every month… at least every Monday, I can ask, okay, if this one is new, can you help me create a SOW? And I think one thing that we can do together is at least organize where the SOWs are.
134 00:15:44.430 ⇒ 00:15:57.590 Amber Lin: have new systems where the salespeople actually tells us when new projects are coming in, and they can always use the AI that’s created using the transcripts to create the initial SOW, because that doesn’t…
135 00:15:57.590 ⇒ 00:16:06.370 Amber Lin: That doesn’t require much, and they have more context than we do at that point, so that’s a process that we can implement if you think that is good.
136 00:16:06.770 ⇒ 00:16:08.400 Justin Breshears: I agree. Yeah, I think…
137 00:16:08.930 ⇒ 00:16:21.430 Justin Breshears: I mean, it seemed like Robert was not, like, pleased with how much effort he had to spend on… I don’t know Robert, so I don’t know, like, how to take his tone on there, but he was like, oh, I spent 30 minutes, like, editing this, or whatever, and there’s.
138 00:16:21.430 ⇒ 00:16:21.960 Amber Lin: Huh.
139 00:16:21.960 ⇒ 00:16:31.589 Justin Breshears: you know, siloed docs and all this stuff, and I’m like… I think the best way that we could solve that is to have, like, a proper handoff from, like, the sales cycle to…
140 00:16:31.800 ⇒ 00:16:33.639 Justin Breshears: Like, the delivery, because I feel like…
141 00:16:34.110 ⇒ 00:16:39.130 Justin Breshears: Just giving meeting notes of a meeting is not good enough.
142 00:16:39.130 ⇒ 00:16:39.600 Amber Lin: Yeah.
143 00:16:39.600 ⇒ 00:16:43.260 Justin Breshears: A little surprised by, like, there’s no statement of work, no, like, expectations.
144 00:16:43.670 ⇒ 00:16:51.299 Justin Breshears: you’ve done a lot with very little, so it’s impressive what you’ve done. But like, yeah, I think we need a better handoff process from there.
145 00:16:59.500 ⇒ 00:17:04.799 Justin Breshears: I’ve talked to Utam about that, too, like, in our, conversations the last few weeks, like…
146 00:17:04.800 ⇒ 00:17:05.520 Amber Lin: Yeah.
147 00:17:05.520 ⇒ 00:17:15.219 Justin Breshears: But I think creating a, like, more formalized process from, like, sales all the way through to delivery is, like, one of the things that I would like to do.
148 00:17:15.619 ⇒ 00:17:17.139 Amber Lin: Totally.
149 00:17:17.479 ⇒ 00:17:35.469 Amber Lin: I think… and then on sales right now, they have Sol. I think she’s pretty good. She’s still new, but I think that’s someone that we would coordinate to get it done, because Robert would not have time for that, but they will have access to all the transcripts, and then…
150 00:17:35.469 ⇒ 00:17:40.579 Amber Lin: He will essentially dump it to them, and then they will create the initial scope of work and hand it to us.
151 00:17:40.580 ⇒ 00:17:45.960 Justin Breshears: Yeah, yeah, I think that’s a perfect on-ramp, for this, is to utilize Sol
152 00:17:46.180 ⇒ 00:17:55.199 Justin Breshears: Yeah, and I think that is one of the problems, is just having your salespeople also be, like, you know, your CEOs, all this stuff, like, they just don’t have a lot of time, right?
153 00:17:55.770 ⇒ 00:17:59.860 Justin Breshears: But yeah, I think Seoul could probably definitely help with that.
154 00:18:00.180 ⇒ 00:18:07.390 Amber Lin: Yeah, I think we have a documentation on linear… Hmm.
155 00:18:08.010 ⇒ 00:18:13.290 Amber Lin: Here, I have this one.
156 00:18:13.900 ⇒ 00:18:15.290 Amber Lin: So…
157 00:18:16.840 ⇒ 00:18:26.539 Amber Lin: I… I think I created this a while back. So, individual… so when… sometimes I need to look at what I need to do, I go up here.
158 00:18:26.880 ⇒ 00:18:31.699 Amber Lin: See, okay, for these projects, this is what I need to do, and when do I need to do it?
159 00:18:31.790 ⇒ 00:18:37.850 Amber Lin: And then, I think overall, as a structure for linear, we have different teams.
160 00:18:37.850 ⇒ 00:18:52.619 Amber Lin: We generally, for clients, we use it per client, and then each team can have different projects. For internal teams, I don’t think you need to worry about it yet, but we have the AI team and the data team, etc.
161 00:18:52.890 ⇒ 00:18:54.979 Amber Lin: And then for each…
162 00:18:55.160 ⇒ 00:19:04.660 Amber Lin: project. Let’s say we go here… it is not a good example. So for project…
163 00:19:05.020 ⇒ 00:19:24.080 Amber Lin: So, for instance, here in Urban Stems, we have the different milestones. We’ll do the audit, and then we’ll do ingestion, and the staging, and this helps us know, okay, how far are we really in the progress? I think the milestone has been really helpful, for me.
164 00:19:25.470 ⇒ 00:19:29.140 Amber Lin: Yeah, and then to create a…
165 00:19:29.410 ⇒ 00:19:37.080 Amber Lin: ticket, you can press C, if that… if having shortcuts becomes helpful. And then…
166 00:19:37.960 ⇒ 00:19:46.330 Amber Lin: in the board view, so you can have different views. I prefer lists, but I know Utam and a few others prefer
167 00:19:46.460 ⇒ 00:19:47.990 Amber Lin: The board view?
168 00:19:48.520 ⇒ 00:19:52.490 Amber Lin: So you can see… I was gonna ask if there was a board view, yeah. Yeah.
169 00:19:52.490 ⇒ 00:19:54.030 Justin Breshears: I do like board views.
170 00:19:54.200 ⇒ 00:20:00.119 Amber Lin: Yeah, so you can see it stacked up, and then you can have different groupings, you can show.
171 00:20:00.120 ⇒ 00:20:14.620 Amber Lin: exclude the completed ones. You can select here if you want to show the different things, so you can show or hide when it was created. I think sometimes it helps to know if it’s a very stale ticket.
172 00:20:14.880 ⇒ 00:20:17.750 Amber Lin: And then… Bye.
173 00:20:18.140 ⇒ 00:20:32.870 Amber Lin: And if you really want… if you want to track your personal tasks somewhere, you can also create a team just for yourself, you can create a private team. I deleted that because I… most of my tasks are just on projects,
174 00:20:33.130 ⇒ 00:20:41.860 Amber Lin: So, that’s a very brief overview. Do you have any specific questions, or how do I do this, or scenario questions that I can help answer?
175 00:20:42.070 ⇒ 00:20:48.409 Justin Breshears: How do you… Oh, nevermind. I just got it.
176 00:20:49.390 ⇒ 00:20:50.730 Justin Breshears: Well, no, actually.
177 00:20:51.010 ⇒ 00:20:59.920 Justin Breshears: So if I’m looking at the issues, and I’m looking at the board view, is there a way, instead of, organizing it by milestone, to organize it by…
178 00:21:00.750 ⇒ 00:21:03.600 Justin Breshears: Person?
179 00:21:03.780 ⇒ 00:21:16.199 Amber Lin: Yeah, so you can select what you want to order it by. It’s usually always up here in display, and if you click on display, you can have grouping and then subgrouping.
180 00:21:16.470 ⇒ 00:21:21.419 Amber Lin: And then order. So, it depends on how you want to view this.
181 00:21:21.420 ⇒ 00:21:24.580 Justin Breshears: We can do that, okay, hold on.
182 00:21:25.310 ⇒ 00:21:26.800 Justin Breshears: Oh, okay, cool.
183 00:21:32.120 ⇒ 00:21:33.170 Justin Breshears: Jeez.
184 00:21:33.990 ⇒ 00:21:38.600 Justin Breshears: I’m looking at the Daily Impact Sport Card Automation Project.
185 00:21:39.390 ⇒ 00:21:42.810 Justin Breshears: Casey has, like, A million tickets.
186 00:21:45.200 ⇒ 00:21:48.969 Amber Lin: It’s only KC on the team right now, so it’s Olga on KC.
187 00:21:49.120 ⇒ 00:21:54.209 Justin Breshears: Yeah, what… Why is there all these other people on Ireland?
188 00:21:56.480 ⇒ 00:21:57.260 Justin Breshears: Interesting.
189 00:21:58.250 ⇒ 00:22:04.050 Justin Breshears: I’m just gonna have to, like, spend some time getting familiar with it, because this is just, like, a totally different…
190 00:22:04.620 ⇒ 00:22:08.059 Justin Breshears: you know, way of looking at it for me. I’ve never used linear before.
191 00:22:08.440 ⇒ 00:22:08.760 Amber Lin: I’m…
192 00:22:08.760 ⇒ 00:22:12.540 Justin Breshears: Spent some time getting familiar with it, but that overview was very helpful.
193 00:22:12.700 ⇒ 00:22:23.819 Amber Lin: Okay, sounds good. I think once Robert syncs with Shreya, we can create that doc together. Yeah.
194 00:22:23.820 ⇒ 00:22:25.030 Justin Breshears: do that together.
195 00:22:25.660 ⇒ 00:22:31.329 Amber Lin: Sure, we can… we can probably grab a little bit of time after that.
196 00:22:31.510 ⇒ 00:22:34.249 Justin Breshears: Okay. Let’s see…
197 00:22:40.080 ⇒ 00:22:41.239 Amber Lin: Thank you.
198 00:22:41.850 ⇒ 00:22:45.310 Amber Lin: We have 7 minutes left.
199 00:22:45.310 ⇒ 00:22:48.120 Justin Breshears: For the four things that he sent?
200 00:22:49.730 ⇒ 00:22:52.530 Justin Breshears: Can you walk me through, kind of, what he’s talking about there?
201 00:22:52.760 ⇒ 00:22:53.570 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me…
202 00:22:53.570 ⇒ 00:22:56.709 Justin Breshears: She said, let’s get meta connectivity set up.
203 00:22:56.710 ⇒ 00:23:02.869 Amber Lin: Meta… Meta is a source, we’ve been blocked, so he just means…
204 00:23:02.980 ⇒ 00:23:10.420 Amber Lin: let’s nudge them, and let’s get that done. It’s part of the previously planned things that we got blocked on.
205 00:23:10.640 ⇒ 00:23:11.800 Justin Breshears: Gotcha.
206 00:23:12.460 ⇒ 00:23:13.020 Amber Lin: SEO.
207 00:23:13.020 ⇒ 00:23:16.850 Justin Breshears: Another thing I was gonna ask, too, on the project itself.
208 00:23:17.440 ⇒ 00:23:19.239 Justin Breshears: I open up the overview…
209 00:23:20.730 ⇒ 00:23:28.699 Justin Breshears: like, it says the… there’s a couple of different dates on here where it’s, like, goes till August 15th, but then it says August 19th down there.
210 00:23:29.140 ⇒ 00:23:31.629 Justin Breshears: But, like, is all of this still ongoing?
211 00:23:31.910 ⇒ 00:23:38.860 Amber Lin: Yes, because the dates we planned to finish it, it did not get finished then.
212 00:23:38.890 ⇒ 00:23:42.859 Justin Breshears: Poor planning, and also they are very slow.
213 00:23:43.190 ⇒ 00:23:43.720 Justin Breshears: Okay.
214 00:23:44.050 ⇒ 00:23:44.750 Amber Lin: Yes.
215 00:23:44.750 ⇒ 00:23:48.609 Justin Breshears: Is there a place, like, you’re registering these risks, or, like, calling them out?
216 00:23:51.340 ⇒ 00:24:04.689 Amber Lin: We can put them in the project management plan. Right now, this has been… because my main focus is not this project, so it’s just been whatever, I just dump it in Slack, and I tell Robert, hey, this is blocked.
217 00:24:05.010 ⇒ 00:24:05.900 Justin Breshears: Sure, okay.
218 00:24:05.900 ⇒ 00:24:06.610 Amber Lin: Yeah.
219 00:24:06.750 ⇒ 00:24:15.300 Amber Lin: And then number 2, he said, refresh what’s remaining on the automation side. So that just means keep…
220 00:24:15.740 ⇒ 00:24:28.500 Amber Lin: send him updates, give him a fresh view of where we’re at, and make sure the clients get updates until this is truly done, so we need to keep sending them updates.
221 00:24:28.500 ⇒ 00:24:31.470 Justin Breshears: do that for you? How do you do that, then? How do you, like…
222 00:24:32.220 ⇒ 00:24:37.840 Justin Breshears: gather up the updates and send them to Robert. Because I understand Robert is the one doing the actual comms with the client?
223 00:24:37.840 ⇒ 00:24:57.639 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah. So, I usually, if I have time, I try to, every day, I send an overview of where we’re at. Sometimes Casey helps me do that, because he’s the only other person on his team. And then every week, I do an overall summary of, okay, where we’re at, what are we blocked on, what is still to do. So, I send that, but…
224 00:24:58.090 ⇒ 00:25:00.490 Justin Breshears: So you’re just asking Casey, mainly?
225 00:25:00.490 ⇒ 00:25:01.270 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah.
226 00:25:01.270 ⇒ 00:25:01.860 Justin Breshears: Okay.
227 00:25:03.240 ⇒ 00:25:07.499 Amber Lin: And Casey’s pretty good about sending updates, as you can see in the channel.
228 00:25:07.860 ⇒ 00:25:08.510 Justin Breshears: Yeah.
229 00:25:09.960 ⇒ 00:25:12.079 Amber Lin: And number 3 is more on…
230 00:25:12.420 ⇒ 00:25:16.920 Amber Lin: the new scope expansion. And I think Robert…
231 00:25:17.240 ⇒ 00:25:22.199 Amber Lin: Robert wasn’t at the delivery call, so he doesn’t know that you’ll be taking on this project, but…
232 00:25:22.200 ⇒ 00:25:24.909 Justin Breshears: Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it in the thread there.
233 00:25:24.910 ⇒ 00:25:25.650 Amber Lin: Yeah.
234 00:25:26.620 ⇒ 00:25:27.960 Justin Breshears: Wanted to let him know.
235 00:25:29.290 ⇒ 00:25:40.090 Amber Lin: Yeah, and then email… the number 4 is probably just the communication channel. We should use email. I don’t have their email yet, so I’ll probably…
236 00:25:40.240 ⇒ 00:25:49.759 Amber Lin: As for that, and then he might add us to Slack later with the clients, but the clients need to tell us yes, but no.
237 00:25:50.550 ⇒ 00:25:52.410 Justin Breshears: Sure. Okay, cool.
238 00:25:53.800 ⇒ 00:26:00.399 Justin Breshears: Super helpful, and I think we can just… I’ll jump into the stand-up and see how you’re running those.
239 00:26:00.400 ⇒ 00:26:01.670 Amber Lin: Yeah, sounds good.
240 00:26:01.670 ⇒ 00:26:09.300 Justin Breshears: I run both ABC and Insomnia in the stand-up, because they’re the same people, but I’ll run the Insomnia one first, so you can hop off early.
241 00:26:10.190 ⇒ 00:26:14.780 Justin Breshears: No worries, I’d like to see all of it, probably. Okay. We’ll see how you run it. Sounds good.
242 00:26:14.920 ⇒ 00:26:16.260 Amber Lin: Alright, see you there soon.
243 00:26:16.570 ⇒ 00:26:17.549 Justin Breshears: Sounds good. Bye.
244 00:26:17.550 ⇒ 00:26:18.890 Amber Lin: I…