Meeting Title: PP2G | Weekly Kickoff_2025_03_17 Date: 2025-03-17 Meeting participants: Aakash Tandel, Luke Daque, Amber Lin, Yoon, Uttam, Caio Velasco


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1 00:00:16.070 00:00:17.630 Amber Lin: Good morning.

2 00:00:21.430 00:00:23.083 Amber Lin: Hi! Akaj!

3 00:00:25.000 00:00:32.890 Amber Lin: Hello! We have. We’re waiting for Pius, I believe. Let me check if he accepted or declined this meeting

4 00:00:35.700 00:00:36.669 Uttam: Yes, good morning.

5 00:00:37.480 00:00:37.930 Amber Lin: Good morning!

6 00:00:37.930 00:00:38.610 Luke Daque: Cleverly.

7 00:00:42.210 00:00:42.800 Amber Lin: Hmm.

8 00:00:43.170 00:00:44.200 Luke Daque: How’s everyone?

9 00:00:45.910 00:00:47.210 Amber Lin: How is your weekend

10 00:00:47.450 00:00:48.410 Uttam: Good.

11 00:00:50.320 00:00:51.799 Uttam: How about you, Ryan? How was it?

12 00:00:53.424 00:00:57.900 Luke Daque: Pretty good as well. Yesterday we went swimming with my kids.

13 00:00:59.010 00:01:02.370 Luke Daque: And they they wanted to go swimming. So yeah, we went to.

14 00:01:02.960 00:01:09.890 Luke Daque: Yeah, basically just stayed in a place with a swimming pool like half of the day, and just ate out

15 00:01:10.080 00:01:10.690 Caio Velasco: Okay.

16 00:01:10.900 00:01:12.549 Luke Daque: Yeah, cool. Pretty cool.

17 00:01:15.620 00:01:21.910 Amber Lin: Yeah, this weekend, my partner, because she’s a she’s a professional swimmel college

18 00:01:22.060 00:01:35.380 Amber Lin: athlete swimmer. So she was pretty good, and she was teaching me how to, and I realized how shitty I swam because I did not move forward in the water. And she’s like, Oh, do this! And then I just, and I just went forward. It was crazy

19 00:01:35.990 00:01:38.500 Uttam: Oh, I miss swimming! I love swimming

20 00:01:39.730 00:01:42.720 Luke Daque: Yeah, I was a swimmer before as well.

21 00:01:42.940 00:01:43.440 Amber Lin: Oh, wow!

22 00:01:43.440 00:01:44.800 Uttam: No way. Okay.

23 00:01:45.470 00:01:46.070 Luke Daque: What is it?

24 00:01:46.070 00:01:52.730 Luke Daque: I I stopped basically after I graduated. But yeah, I was an athlete before. Sooner

25 00:01:52.730 00:01:58.610 Amber Lin: Wow! Wait! What? Kinda what did you specialize in? My partner does fly mostly

26 00:01:59.120 00:02:02.747 Luke Daque: I was like, mostly all around, like, yeah, everything.

27 00:02:03.450 00:02:04.480 Luke Daque: But yeah.

28 00:02:05.470 00:02:06.450 Amber Lin: Cool.

29 00:02:07.040 00:02:08.350 Amber Lin: Hi Kyle.

30 00:02:09.820 00:02:10.620 Caio Velasco: Hello!

31 00:02:10.620 00:02:11.760 Amber Lin: Pronounce your name.

32 00:02:12.040 00:02:13.680 Caio Velasco: Yes, Kyle, perfect.

33 00:02:14.090 00:02:14.920 Amber Lin: Great

34 00:02:16.064 00:02:31.550 Amber Lin: oh, I also did a photo shoot this weekend. So I got paid again for another photo shoot. I got to know this person at a random business brunch, and they were like, Oh, I have this farmers market that I need photos of. So

35 00:02:31.750 00:02:33.330 Amber Lin: that was very exciting.

36 00:02:35.320 00:02:36.469 Luke Daque: That’s cool

37 00:02:36.930 00:02:44.349 Amber Lin: Hmm, let me share with you guys a figma jam that we can just all look at

38 00:02:45.840 00:02:47.559 Amber Lin: put that in our chat

39 00:03:00.770 00:03:02.920 Luke Daque: Can you share access? I don’t think I

40 00:03:02.920 00:03:08.840 Amber Lin: Yes, I let me let you guys edit edit.

41 00:03:09.040 00:03:09.920 Amber Lin: Yes.

42 00:03:13.270 00:03:15.960 Amber Lin: and edit. Great

43 00:03:24.620 00:03:26.269 Amber Lin: is everybody on there?

44 00:03:27.060 00:03:27.970 Amber Lin: Great

45 00:03:28.761 00:03:41.359 Amber Lin: last, right now we’re in mid March 17 to 21.st I think I check with everyone. If you guys are, gonna be out of office this week, I don’t think anyone is right.

46 00:03:44.000 00:03:49.930 Amber Lin: If you are, just put it on the calendar just like, put a little block or put a stamp on there so that I know.

47 00:03:59.070 00:04:19.030 Amber Lin: Let’s move on to the action items from last week last week we talked about a few things we want to do forward for this client. I know we’re still working on a few things. How is that going? How’s the I know there’s the skew, and then there’s the warranty.

48 00:04:20.040 00:04:22.930 Amber Lin: How are those 2 items going?

49 00:04:28.130 00:04:36.330 Amber Lin: Oh, I think that’s for pious, and he is not here. Bo, do you know anything about how how those 2

50 00:04:36.650 00:04:38.379 Amber Lin: projects are going

51 00:04:39.296 00:04:49.820 Yoon: Yeah, I mean the warranty. I have no idea I was working with pious. I haven’t heard from him

52 00:04:50.740 00:04:52.309 Yoon: back yet.

53 00:04:55.080 00:05:03.050 Amber Lin: Okay, sounds good. I will check in with him about that. And I know this week we wanted to do some forecasting.

54 00:05:03.230 00:05:12.130 Amber Lin: especially for this client. They wanted something flashy, and I wanted to talk a little bit more about what you guys think should go into that?

55 00:05:12.260 00:05:15.600 Amber Lin: How’s that? Gonna go? etc?

56 00:05:17.640 00:05:23.440 Yoon: So yeah, I’ll have to talk with pious about that. But there’s

57 00:05:23.540 00:05:26.679 Yoon: basically gonna be 2 ways of forecasting demand

58 00:05:26.910 00:05:29.609 Yoon: which 1st is going to be

59 00:05:29.840 00:05:36.490 Yoon: on a perspective of full parse to go itself. And another way.

60 00:05:37.300 00:05:43.189 Yoon: Another forecasting way will be on the Asia Connection

61 00:05:43.340 00:05:47.490 Yoon: perspective, which is going to be bye

62 00:05:47.770 00:05:59.270 Yoon: getting forecasting the demand, forecasting the the demand for all of the vendors, so getting the

63 00:06:02.540 00:06:06.040 Yoon: ordering the the parts from China itself.

64 00:06:06.450 00:06:07.070 Amber Lin: Okay.

65 00:06:07.070 00:06:09.580 Yoon: Because Asia connection is the company where

66 00:06:09.970 00:06:12.680 Yoon: is importing all, the all the parts

67 00:06:13.140 00:06:13.740 Amber Lin: Okay.

68 00:06:13.740 00:06:15.359 Yoon: And Paul Corsico is

69 00:06:15.360 00:06:18.120 Amber Lin: Oh, they’re selling it

70 00:06:20.190 00:06:30.550 Amber Lin: cool. Let’s see, cause I do want to get some action on this week, either on the skews which I need bias to talk about that.

71 00:06:30.700 00:06:31.770 Amber Lin: And

72 00:06:31.840 00:07:01.710 Amber Lin: last week, when we talked about this, we’re talking, we’re saying, oh, this the forecasting wouldn’t take too long to have a basic model going. Do you think you would be able to have some progress on this one this week, or maybe just for Monday and Tuesday? Go on a spike and research what you need. And maybe the time commitments, the different tools that we need. Would that be a good thing to do? Say, maybe today or tomorrow.

73 00:07:01.950 00:07:08.190 Uttam: Yeah, I just wanna double down on that as well. If we’re able to just have something to show

74 00:07:08.539 00:07:16.010 Uttam: cause I can get a meeting booked, but I kind of want to try to put as much in front of them as possible to sell the next set of

75 00:07:16.512 00:07:32.220 Uttam: priorities that we’re gonna propose. One of which is this forecasting? I know that’s on the top of the list. If we can have anything to show for that in that meeting, in addition to sort of putting together what we propose, we’re gonna work on. That would be amazing.

76 00:07:32.730 00:07:33.720 Amber Lin: Yeah.

77 00:07:34.760 00:07:39.670 Amber Lin: So I think this week the 2 main things this is already.

78 00:07:40.780 00:07:46.090 Amber Lin: This is already to start.

79 00:07:46.420 00:07:48.329 Amber Lin: So we need to

80 00:07:48.760 00:07:57.499 Amber Lin: start. So why don’t go backwards? When we present to the client, I think we should present some sort of forecasting ability.

81 00:07:57.890 00:08:02.140 Amber Lin: maybe in a dashboard, if that’s possible. Something visual would be nice.

82 00:08:02.550 00:08:11.429 Amber Lin: and I will pitch the weekly monthly business reviews. I will do this

83 00:08:11.950 00:08:16.739 Amber Lin: and anything else that comes to mind that we should also present

84 00:08:18.720 00:08:31.150 Aakash Tandel: Can you give a quick, high level overview, for? I don’t know if Kyle and Luke are as familiar with the forecasting stuff. But I’m definitely not. So. Can you give a high level overview of what we’re what that looks like or what we’re trying to do? There

85 00:08:31.870 00:08:39.069 Amber Lin: Sure. So please add on to this from my understanding, the forecasting is for them to

86 00:08:39.789 00:08:49.979 Amber Lin: no sales or profits down the line based on their previous transactions. And the reason why they want this is that

87 00:08:50.130 00:09:05.059 Amber Lin: they’re going through M. And A and the CEO, which is our main point of contact needs something more flashy for his credibility and for his show. So we need to support him on that mission. And that’s why we’re gonna do some forecasting for him.

88 00:09:05.440 00:09:14.559 Aakash Tandel: And is that forecasting? What does the deliverable look like? Is that a like a model they have? Or is it like going to be integrated into a dashboard that’s existing

89 00:09:14.700 00:09:21.529 Amber Lin: Yeah, that’s what I wanted us to investigate. So that’s what we’re talking about right now. And

90 00:09:21.830 00:09:30.629 Amber Lin: I think it should be something visual. But I am not the expert, and not the one doing it. So, please. But please tell me what is plausible

91 00:09:31.090 00:09:42.169 Yoon: So the output of the model. It will be a a forecasting model where it outputs the the next end months, for example, of the of the demand.

92 00:09:42.310 00:09:44.870 Yoon: or whichever wide we’re predicting.

93 00:09:45.440 00:09:50.059 Yoon: And yeah, we can also make a graph. Or

94 00:09:50.280 00:09:55.200 Yoon: we we have the actuals and the the predictive predicted.

95 00:09:55.340 00:09:58.560 Yoon: forecasting a dotted line something like that

96 00:09:59.120 00:10:06.079 Amber Lin: Would we be able to break it down further of forecasting each section? Would that be something plausible

97 00:10:06.530 00:10:07.879 Yoon: Each, section.

98 00:10:08.310 00:10:10.132 Amber Lin: Yeah. Say, maybe

99 00:10:11.510 00:10:23.299 Amber Lin: if we’re forecasting, say, sales, maybe sales for different type of products. Or if we’re forecasting costs that may be different types of costs. And how that’s gonna go, because

100 00:10:23.300 00:10:23.890 Yoon: Yeah.

101 00:10:23.890 00:10:28.619 Amber Lin: If we’re training the model, these are all parameters that we can train

102 00:10:29.810 00:10:35.750 Yoon: So what we what Pius and I were trying to do was

103 00:10:36.170 00:10:41.830 Yoon: forecasting the demand of the top like 2 or 3 products

104 00:10:42.170 00:10:43.770 Amber Lin: Hmm, okay.

105 00:10:43.770 00:10:50.079 Yoon: Yeah, because all of them will have different like demand, history, data

106 00:10:50.080 00:10:50.730 Amber Lin: Okay.

107 00:10:51.850 00:10:59.190 Yoon: And each one of them will eventually. Ha! I mean, unless we aggregate everything together.

108 00:11:00.410 00:11:02.699 Yoon: you’ll have to be at a product level.

109 00:11:03.240 00:11:04.319 Yoon: Yeah, for

110 00:11:04.320 00:11:13.239 Amber Lin: It sounds good. I think that’s good enough for this week to show. I just want us to eventually arrive at something visual.

111 00:11:13.390 00:11:14.560 Amber Lin: So

112 00:11:15.590 00:11:31.999 Amber Lin: this week. I think we can start Monday and Tuesday to look at that and get a feel of what that is, and maybe by Thursday have somewhat of a model and some sort of graph we can show to him. Do you think that’s a reasonable timeline

113 00:11:32.500 00:11:39.359 Yoon: Yeah, I can start looking at the data today. Let me see if I can chat with pious

114 00:11:39.750 00:11:40.370 Amber Lin: Okay.

115 00:11:40.370 00:11:45.760 Yoon: Yeah, it’ll be great if I could just get a like an approval from him.

116 00:11:45.760 00:12:02.560 Uttam: So whatever questions you have, if you don’t mind just putting them in the Channel. I think if you have a chance to call pies. That’s fine, too. But I just want everyone on this call to be able to see the answers like, where’s orders? What are the tables? Things like that. I’m I’m probably the best equipped to answer some of that.

117 00:12:02.700 00:12:10.319 Uttam: So I will respond with with answers. But I definitely want to just try to watch Convo in that channel, so everyone can see

118 00:12:10.910 00:12:12.330 Yoon: Yeah, yeah, sure.

119 00:12:17.650 00:12:18.340 Amber Lin: Right

120 00:12:22.040 00:12:40.660 Amber Lin: right, Luke and Kyle, is there anything on your end? I know that the backlog where we talk about it? It was not that great? Do you think you have capacity to work on this this week? Or is the stack list more important? Because I know the back end stuff don’t doesn’t really show for him.

121 00:12:41.790 00:12:49.482 Luke Daque: Yeah, I should have bandwidth for this week for any kind of data modeling or something like, if you need data models for that

122 00:12:51.170 00:12:56.340 Luke Daque: for like what? What we need for the forecasting? Then maybe we can. We can do that

123 00:12:56.600 00:13:02.370 Amber Lin: Oh, oh, okay, I assume you also have experience working on that together. Right?

124 00:13:04.486 00:13:09.200 Luke Daque: Well, not necessarily in terms of like machine learning. But if we need some

125 00:13:09.840 00:13:11.370 Uttam: Some stuff.

126 00:13:11.370 00:13:17.599 Uttam: Still, Luke and I, Luke and I were the 2 primary engineers on this client.

127 00:13:18.170 00:13:24.290 Uttam: so I think probably any knowledge I have he has as well in terms of the technical modeling. So

128 00:13:24.980 00:13:30.190 Uttam: yeah, and then, I think you know, 1 1 piece of comes to mind, and this is going to be part of like

129 00:13:30.460 00:13:40.429 Uttam: how we sell this, because ultimately the client isn’t. Gonna see, this is, they may not see. This as a priority is is documentation. And I think this is where

130 00:13:40.920 00:13:48.769 Uttam: you know, even across products. I guess I want to understand, like, what is a what is Doc? Great documentation look like for

131 00:13:49.260 00:13:54.850 Uttam: our internal team? And how can we make that a priority for for this client as well

132 00:13:55.010 00:13:55.480 Amber Lin: T

133 00:13:55.480 00:14:00.430 Uttam: I think, to date. We have not really arrived on like what

134 00:14:00.870 00:14:14.670 Uttam: what the end product is. If we were to say cool, we, we want to check a box like we have good documentation. I think we need to work with the data team to understand like what that is. But I feel like for for this client that could definitely be an item on the

135 00:14:14.840 00:14:19.740 Uttam: analytics engineering backlog in addition to the other priorities

136 00:14:20.030 00:14:48.630 Amber Lin: Yeah, thank you for mentioning that, because I was thinking, especially when they’re going through M. And A. I when I wrote on the document for the next phase. I was thinking they need something to standardize their data and everything. And they’re not very organized right now. And that’s going to be a huge problem after they go through M and A, so that could be a selling point of telling them. Hey, you need to organize now and get prepared for the M. And A, so maybe that could be a potential selling point

137 00:14:52.000 00:14:57.780 Uttam: Yeah, I think the big things there are just breaking down like, what are the issues for? If we were to do that, yeah, go ahead. Kai.

138 00:14:58.980 00:15:02.489 Caio Velasco: I know. I just wanna mention that. I mean, I’m not sure exactly

139 00:15:03.460 00:15:09.890 Caio Velasco: what they’re gonna do with whatever we present them now. But if they’re gonna go through an M and a process.

140 00:15:10.230 00:15:15.310 Caio Velasco: and they’re expecting us to deliver like the prediction they used to actually

141 00:15:15.470 00:15:23.729 Caio Velasco: put the price in the company, which is like what happens in a process. Then it is a big thing. So we just have to make sure, like, what are their expectations.

142 00:15:24.250 00:15:25.579 Caio Velasco: If that makes sense

143 00:15:29.710 00:15:30.429 Amber Lin: Oh no!

144 00:15:30.940 00:15:31.980 Aakash Tandel: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense

145 00:15:33.234 00:15:39.800 Amber Lin: Totally. Also forecast machine

146 00:15:40.140 00:15:55.850 Aakash Tandel: I think, Bo, if you and pies come up with like a forecasting model and start to deploy, I think it’d be good to bring to stand up or like, run it by the rest of the team. Just so we have visibility into kind of what’s happening. And also, maybe if Kyle or Luke have.

147 00:15:56.330 00:16:00.309 Aakash Tandel: you know, recommendations or feedback on it, it would be good to have.

148 00:16:00.410 00:16:11.819 Aakash Tandel: Because, yeah, as Kyle mentioned, if if they’re, you know, reliably trying to use this as A as a piece of data for the M and a process. We want this to be as accurate and as polished as possible.

149 00:16:13.170 00:16:26.189 Amber Lin: Totally, and that is a top priority for us. I’ll talk to Pius about how this queue is going and how much time he’s gonna put into that versus the versus the forecasting. I think we know what we need to do

150 00:16:26.360 00:16:27.700 Amber Lin: for this week.

151 00:16:28.317 00:16:48.879 Amber Lin: We do have a short catch of around 10 min or so. For tomorrow. And hopefully, we can have a plan. And we can have an idea of what the forecasting model looks like, and for Bo and Pius, and for Luke and Kyle.

152 00:16:48.880 00:17:05.280 Amber Lin: you guys help with that, and also maybe look at the deep backlog of understanding the issues with documentation and just having an idea of maybe how we’re going to progress with that. So I think today was today, Monday would be a lot about understanding what we need to do

153 00:17:07.140 00:17:11.530 Uttam: Yeah. And then one item is, I can. I can go ahead and try to tee up a meeting for Thursday

154 00:17:12.240 00:17:13.319 Uttam: Let me go ahead and do that

155 00:17:13.329 00:17:14.229 Amber Lin: Okay. Yeah.

156 00:17:14.230 00:17:16.390 Uttam: And like, let’s aim for that as a target.

157 00:17:16.560 00:17:26.319 Uttam: I think another item, and maybe I can take this to work on with the with the analytics engineering team is what does good documentation look like for a client?

158 00:17:26.690 00:17:30.400 Uttam: We had our like spreadsheet. We have like notion.

159 00:17:31.940 00:17:36.729 Uttam: So I think we can maybe agree on that. And that way we can break that up into tickets pretty easily.

160 00:17:37.480 00:17:43.579 Uttam: Whether it’s about or business domain, whether it’s some format. I think we can work on that

161 00:17:45.230 00:17:45.980 Uttam: cool

162 00:17:47.160 00:17:48.340 Amber Lin: Fantastic.

163 00:17:48.620 00:17:51.630 Amber Lin: Let me organize this

164 00:17:54.320 00:18:02.089 Aakash Tandel: Is Pius, gonna be the lone person on the skew work. I’m not sure what that looks like, so I’m not sure if he’s if that’s totally feasible.

165 00:18:02.530 00:18:11.070 Amber Lin: I’m not very sure, and I’m not very sure how much the big concern was that we don’t know how much the client cares about that one, and

166 00:18:11.400 00:18:15.680 Amber Lin: I think he has some progress on it, but it’s kind of stuck on the client’s end.

167 00:18:15.820 00:18:21.510 Amber Lin: So I would need to talk to him to understand this a little bit more

168 00:18:22.140 00:18:35.660 Aakash Tandel: Cool sounds good. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that. You know, if he is working on forecasting, maybe we can offload the skew work to someone else. But yeah, that’s fine. Just as long as he’s not too burdened by that. It sounds good

169 00:18:36.130 00:18:50.609 Amber Lin: Yeah, okay, I think I’ll ask him to prioritize the forecasting, because that’s what the client wants, and is more important for our next meeting with him and Utam. Thursday sounds good. Thursday or Friday is good, and I think we’ll have something by then.

170 00:18:52.810 00:18:53.500 Uttam: Okay.

171 00:18:53.910 00:18:59.230 Amber Lin: Okay, sounds good. Anything else that you guys can think of for this client

172 00:19:01.520 00:19:14.080 Uttam: I think one item just for folks who haven’t seen it. You can just take a look at the notion, Doc, that Amber put together. It’s in slack, basically has an entire overview of what we’re currently working on and what we’re gonna propose to them.

173 00:19:15.480 00:19:22.349 Uttam: so that would be really helpful to go through and add any comments that that’ll that’ll basically be the base of what we’ll try to present on Thursday

174 00:19:25.090 00:19:27.050 Caio Velasco: The last one. Honestly, right?

175 00:19:27.050 00:19:28.910 Caio Velasco: Yes, that’s okay.

176 00:19:29.840 00:19:40.870 Amber Lin: And and I, later, after I run through all the other kickoffs, I will put in our tasks in notion, so that you guys can. Sorry, not in notion in linear. So we can look at it.

177 00:19:42.460 00:19:42.980 Amber Lin: and then

178 00:19:42.980 00:19:45.188 Aakash Tandel: Another thing on linear if

179 00:19:46.154 00:20:02.960 Aakash Tandel: the engineers like, if you guys feel like there’s a task that’s not currently documented in there, just create the issue with within the actual project team. So we’re pull bars to go and then assign it to Amber, and then Amber can figure out where it goes in terms like projects and stuff like that as well. So feel free to do that

180 00:20:03.240 00:20:09.790 Amber Lin: Yeah, just brain dump. If there’s duplicates doesn’t matter. I I will look over it. I’m meeting with Utam to

181 00:20:10.340 00:20:13.579 Amber Lin: room the backlog. So just dump everything you can think of.

182 00:20:15.240 00:20:16.160 Amber Lin: Okay.

183 00:20:16.470 00:20:21.659 Luke Daque: So maybe the current current tasks in notion we can transfer to linear as well. Right

184 00:20:21.660 00:20:27.119 Amber Lin: Yeah, there’s there’s really not much in notion I look at. There’s like 2

185 00:20:27.650 00:20:28.699 Uttam: Cool. Yeah, Luke.

186 00:20:28.700 00:20:35.840 Uttam: there’s also anything like any sort of backlog like platform stuff we need to fix.

187 00:20:35.940 00:20:36.500 Uttam: It’s probably

188 00:20:37.180 00:20:39.740 Uttam: Me or you are, gonna think about it. So whatever

189 00:20:40.330 00:20:45.050 Uttam: whatever things we can think about in this cleanup process, let’s take care of, yeah.

190 00:20:45.050 00:20:46.970 Luke Daque: Okay. Okay. Sounds good.

191 00:20:46.970 00:20:50.600 Amber Lin: Sounds good. Thank you. Everyone for joining, and I will.

192 00:20:51.300 00:20:52.620 Amber Lin: Maybe tomorrow

193 00:20:53.050 00:20:54.560 Luke Daque: Sounds good

194 00:20:54.930 00:20:55.620 Aakash Tandel: Bye.

195 00:20:55.930 00:20:57.150 Caio Velasco: Move my list! No.