Meeting Title: Nico <> Robert Date: 2024-07-09 Meeting participants: Robert Tseng, Nicolas Sucari
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1 00:01:08.880 ⇒ 00:01:09.699 Nicolas Sucari: Hey, Robert.
2 00:01:10.270 ⇒ 00:01:11.690 Robert Tseng: Hey, Nico? Sorry I’m late.
3 00:01:11.690 ⇒ 00:01:13.759 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, how are you? No problem.
4 00:01:15.090 ⇒ 00:01:16.030 Robert Tseng: Doing okay.
5 00:01:16.966 ⇒ 00:01:18.949 Nicolas Sucari: Busy day, busy week.
6 00:01:19.420 ⇒ 00:01:23.120 Robert Tseng: Yeah, this client has been been a lot. So.
7 00:01:24.110 ⇒ 00:01:24.790 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
8 00:01:25.270 ⇒ 00:01:40.399 Nicolas Sucari: I know. I know there’s a lot of stuff going on, I think. And yeah, I’m trying to talk with Nick every day and do some, and see how can I help them, or probably help more? Nick, and you on.
9 00:01:40.590 ⇒ 00:01:50.200 Nicolas Sucari: on, on, like prioritizing a little bit better, and making Nick like, get things done so that we can deliver to you, and you can deliver to my end of finally.
10 00:01:50.560 ⇒ 00:01:51.190 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
11 00:01:51.190 ⇒ 00:02:12.459 Nicolas Sucari: But yeah, what I wanted to ask you was just kind of if we can go through like the top 3 priorities right now that we have for sellers, that I can get more kind of a sense of understanding like, what is the job that we need to do there, or what they are expecting us to deliver. I know that. Probably they are expecting your metabase dashboards right
12 00:02:12.600 ⇒ 00:02:14.090 Nicolas Sucari: like. That’s our
13 00:02:15.186 ⇒ 00:02:17.880 Nicolas Sucari: our product that we need to deliver right.
14 00:02:19.606 ⇒ 00:02:30.130 Robert Tseng: I mean, honestly, I we just I’ve just been on like an hour call with them. And then Newton was there. For part of it. I feel like we’re still not on the same page on priorities. I,
15 00:02:31.480 ⇒ 00:02:35.729 Robert Tseng: yeah, we have this check in on Monday, July 15.th
16 00:02:37.260 ⇒ 00:02:42.370 Robert Tseng: yeah, I’m like we’ve been working on some new reporting, bringing in hubspots.
17 00:02:43.231 ⇒ 00:02:47.420 Robert Tseng: Getting the Stella tables ready and then preparing that for metabase.
18 00:02:48.330 ⇒ 00:02:52.410 Robert Tseng: But I think there’s just been some work from the past that
19 00:02:53.090 ⇒ 00:02:55.150 Robert Tseng: like this
20 00:02:55.960 ⇒ 00:02:58.509 Robert Tseng: this dashboard that we
21 00:02:59.180 ⇒ 00:03:07.824 Robert Tseng: delivered like a month ago for Zendesk. Like that’s been catching up again like the stakeholders are not happy with it. And
22 00:03:08.370 ⇒ 00:03:14.629 Robert Tseng: yeah, so we just kind of spent the past hour like kind of figuring out like where we were not aligned there.
23 00:03:14.990 ⇒ 00:03:26.249 Robert Tseng: So I feel like the priority for me is I mean, feel I mean, I’m not just speaking about like codes are. I’m just gonna be saying things, though. Feel free to just triage it as you will. But.
24 00:03:26.250 ⇒ 00:03:27.159 Nicolas Sucari: Day out.
25 00:03:28.270 ⇒ 00:03:32.761 Robert Tseng: I’m reconnecting with, like the main sponsor of of this engagement.
26 00:03:33.230 ⇒ 00:03:36.450 Robert Tseng: I guess it’s it’s Thursday, because she’s out of office.
27 00:03:38.450 ⇒ 00:03:45.770 Robert Tseng: yeah, I I think I I need to get her to like kind of sort out what the priorities are. I think me and the
28 00:03:45.900 ⇒ 00:03:46.910 Robert Tseng: the end
29 00:03:47.050 ⇒ 00:03:50.470 Robert Tseng: consumer, the stakeholder, I guess whatever you want to call them
30 00:03:50.570 ⇒ 00:03:56.760 Robert Tseng: don’t see eye to eye. We’re not online on, like what the priority is here. So I feel like we’re kind of at a standstill
31 00:03:56.780 ⇒ 00:03:58.209 Robert Tseng: on on that.
32 00:03:58.999 ⇒ 00:04:07.829 Robert Tseng: So but yeah, in the meanwhile, like the work that we are, we’ve been pushing like, if I’m gonna pull up like the get issues like
33 00:04:08.656 ⇒ 00:04:09.549 Robert Tseng: I think
34 00:04:10.500 ⇒ 00:04:21.479 Robert Tseng: the the Erd and data lineage. I know you don’t been kind of like wanting to record a video and and send that over like, that’s something that they urgently had requested.
35 00:04:22.393 ⇒ 00:04:23.839 Robert Tseng: And then.
36 00:04:24.320 ⇒ 00:04:38.620 Robert Tseng: yeah, I think like the U. The upl table, I think, is in a good place. I think some snapshot tables on Stella. I think those are like the only like we’re blocked on the Sfab side of of stuff until we get the priorities figured out there.
37 00:04:39.113 ⇒ 00:04:42.779 Robert Tseng: But I would say, we can keep moving on Stella. So
38 00:04:43.420 ⇒ 00:04:57.850 Robert Tseng: yeah, once we can share Erd and that diagram with with the client, and then we keep building on on Stella and getting that ready for, like Meta-based reporting. I think that would be that’d be good.
39 00:04:58.510 ⇒ 00:05:27.480 Nicolas Sucari: Okay? So yeah, i i i think I understand. You need to talk with your sponsors there on so side, so that you can figure out like no further top priorities, or they can define exactly what they need like we can keep working on. For now I think we can keep working on these star tables that you’re mentioning, and also the helpful integration. I don’t know if we are kind of not there, or we need to get, because I don’t know if we are. Gonna get that maxim.
40 00:05:28.040 ⇒ 00:05:33.849 Nicolas Sucari: I don’t know if we need to do something else on that side, or you’re like pushing so we can get that data.
41 00:05:34.570 ⇒ 00:05:49.820 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I mean, if we’re blocked on Maxio, I feel like that’d be important to get in by by for Monday, like I was hoping it would just come through the same integration with us, Hubspot. It seems like we haven’t answered. Whether or not we can do that. I think I’ve tried looking into it, and I think the answer is no, so.
42 00:05:49.820 ⇒ 00:05:50.210 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
43 00:05:50.581 ⇒ 00:05:55.779 Robert Tseng: If we need like to bring in Max, you as another source like.
44 00:05:56.000 ⇒ 00:05:59.440 Robert Tseng: I think that’s something I can confirm today.
45 00:06:01.917 ⇒ 00:06:23.029 Nicolas Sucari: Because what I don’t want is Nick to to yeah, to be just sitting and waiting until we so told him we we tell him what to do. I won’t like to find him like what we need to deliver from our side to you, so that then we can move forward with the client. So like, if you can. If you let me know, like, okay, we need these 2 tasks, or we need these stuff
46 00:06:23.120 ⇒ 00:06:33.599 Nicolas Sucari: ready for Monday. I’m gonna start working with Nick and start pushing to have that ready so that we can go to that. All hands meeting on Monday with everything ready, and just
47 00:06:33.610 ⇒ 00:06:36.150 Nicolas Sucari: hear what the client has to say right.
48 00:06:36.500 ⇒ 00:06:38.116 Robert Tseng: Okay, yeah, I mean.
49 00:06:41.040 ⇒ 00:06:43.560 Nicolas Sucari: What is going on. I think it’s sometimes it is.
50 00:06:43.670 ⇒ 00:06:56.849 Nicolas Sucari: He’s not getting what we need to do or what you need in order to deliver to the client, and he’s like mixing up some stuff. And finally, he’s not getting on anything.
51 00:06:57.450 ⇒ 00:06:58.170 Nicolas Sucari: Armenia.
52 00:06:58.300 ⇒ 00:06:59.090 Nicolas Sucari: and
53 00:06:59.290 ⇒ 00:07:01.390 Nicolas Sucari: doesn’t, and
54 00:07:01.440 ⇒ 00:07:02.700 Nicolas Sucari: into you
55 00:07:03.490 ⇒ 00:07:07.919 Nicolas Sucari: so. But I don’t want that to happen. I
56 00:07:08.150 ⇒ 00:07:18.950 Nicolas Sucari: I love definitions and needs. So that’s what I I will try to ask you a lot better and a little more of time, so that I can understand it, and then like, go to Nick and ask him to get things done.
57 00:07:20.380 ⇒ 00:07:21.130 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
58 00:07:22.363 ⇒ 00:07:24.776 Robert Tseng: Okay, I understand that.
59 00:07:25.430 ⇒ 00:07:41.188 Robert Tseng: okay, so let’s just recap this. I know it’s kind of all over the place. So I mean, I just S. Fab, just drop the bomb pretty much. Okay. I’ll just keep it simple that way. And I need to re regroup with the sponsor on. So we any sab work, we’re pause on
60 00:07:41.770 ⇒ 00:07:53.190 Robert Tseng: But then, as far as like the other work, Stella is still still still going in order to make Stella effective. We do need the Hubspot integration in a good place. We need Maxio data. So
61 00:07:53.773 ⇒ 00:08:01.620 Robert Tseng: yeah, I’m after this, I’m gonna connect with the main stakeholder for Stella and try to get them to.
62 00:08:02.661 ⇒ 00:08:07.880 Robert Tseng: Yeah, just make sure I’ll align on what we’re presenting for for Monday.
63 00:08:08.207 ⇒ 00:08:13.109 Robert Tseng: And then I can update you, and we can work backwards from there on, like how to prioritize that.
64 00:08:13.590 ⇒ 00:08:27.030 Nicolas Sucari: Excellent. Okay? So Hubspot, might say that we need that confirmation. Tab is okay, false by now, and everything on elementary. You need that video. And we need to record the videos to show it. And then that that will be it.
65 00:08:27.240 ⇒ 00:08:35.090 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I would say, that’s top priority, even though it doesn’t feel that important. They just keep. They keep asking for it. And so I just wanna give it to them. Yeah.
66 00:08:35.330 ⇒ 00:08:42.100 Nicolas Sucari: The video. What do you wanna show like how you we can go through the dashboard and what the alerts are
67 00:08:42.140 ⇒ 00:08:44.959 Nicolas Sucari: like to explain a little bit how we can use that.
68 00:08:45.280 ⇒ 00:08:56.989 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I mean, I have not logged into elementary myself. I’ve asked for access, and they haven’t given it to me. So I mean, I I don’t actually know what this, what elementary shows, what I asked for from the team was.
69 00:08:57.020 ⇒ 00:09:08.380 Robert Tseng: we need an Erd. We need to be able to see data lineage, as it’s just like a different view of how the tables relate to each other. So the so the client can see. You know what
70 00:09:08.390 ⇒ 00:09:11.779 Robert Tseng: like these smart tables. Where are they coming from? I think.
71 00:09:11.780 ⇒ 00:09:12.200 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
72 00:09:12.200 ⇒ 00:09:19.449 Robert Tseng: Utah when Utah explained it today, like it helped. But they they still want to be able to visualize it. So yeah.
73 00:09:19.450 ⇒ 00:09:24.289 Nicolas Sucari: I think that is okay, I’m gonna ask Uzum to record video or phone you mean can do it.
74 00:09:24.598 ⇒ 00:09:31.830 Nicolas Sucari: I’ll send the video to you, and I’ll get access yeah, credentials to you. And do you want separate credentials for the client, too?
75 00:09:33.020 ⇒ 00:09:33.500 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
76 00:09:36.080 ⇒ 00:09:36.750 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
77 00:09:40.270 ⇒ 00:09:47.310 Nicolas Sucari: that’s perfect. That’s the things I’m gonna start working on. Let me see something else.
78 00:09:47.940 ⇒ 00:09:50.040 Nicolas Sucari: I think that’s it. Right? The last 4.
79 00:09:50.040 ⇒ 00:09:50.550 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
80 00:09:51.028 ⇒ 00:09:53.901 Nicolas Sucari: Elementary. And yeah, okay, we probably.
81 00:09:54.380 ⇒ 00:10:03.087 Robert Tseng: All future messages, I’m sure after I check in with this with the stealth stakeholder, I’ll have more information to share. But yeah.
82 00:10:03.450 ⇒ 00:10:22.650 Nicolas Sucari: If you need credentials, if you need anything else that nobody’s answering, you just tag me. I will start pushing into those things so that we can get the information you need. And if you need, like specific test to be done by us also, let me know. I will start working closely.
83 00:10:22.936 ⇒ 00:10:35.810 Nicolas Sucari: And and yeah, probably with you. If if I need like more meetings during the week, I will just ping you, probably. I’m trying to get the grasp on and on everything on Stella, so that I can pretty understand what we are.
84 00:10:35.980 ⇒ 00:10:39.689 Nicolas Sucari: We want to deliver on what we are doing, so that we can achieve nothing. Okay?
85 00:10:40.189 ⇒ 00:10:54.080 Nicolas Sucari: I mean, I’m I’m available to discuss stuff, to try to understand things, to try to plan out what we are doing and how we want to deliver. But let me know, like your priorities, what we need to deliver. I will try to get things done. Okay.
86 00:10:54.560 ⇒ 00:10:59.509 Robert Tseng: Yeah, no, that’s that’s that’s helpful. Thanks for offering that. Yeah, I know. I’ve been like
87 00:10:59.690 ⇒ 00:11:05.497 Robert Tseng: sending messages trying to like, get get like trying to help like steer steer the ship?
88 00:11:05.970 ⇒ 00:11:08.339 Robert Tseng: yeah. I mean, it’s just unfortunate that
89 00:11:08.800 ⇒ 00:11:12.450 Robert Tseng: I mean, I’m trying to lead with documentation, with outcome.
90 00:11:12.450 ⇒ 00:11:13.290 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
91 00:11:13.290 ⇒ 00:11:21.100 Robert Tseng: But they just they just keep changing things or random things come up. And so I feel like we’re just constantly chasing alignment here. So
92 00:11:21.711 ⇒ 00:11:32.649 Robert Tseng: yeah, if I if I need to, I got yeah, I’m just gonna keep trying to let the team know as like, there, I pick up different changes in conversation with the client, so.
93 00:11:32.650 ⇒ 00:11:44.140 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. And if you want to include me in any conversation with the client so that I can, I know I don’t have like the technical understanding of everything. But if you want me to participate in some meeting, just let me know I can jump right in. Okay.
94 00:11:44.360 ⇒ 00:11:47.259 Robert Tseng: Okay, yeah, I mean, we have like a
95 00:11:47.620 ⇒ 00:12:03.369 Robert Tseng: weekly sync with the there’s like, this is like this, the Sab stakeholders are very difficult to work with for me like this is like the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do. So if I can just add, add you to that one like, maybe that would help.
96 00:12:03.630 ⇒ 00:12:04.330 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I mean.
97 00:12:04.330 ⇒ 00:12:11.209 Nicolas Sucari: I mean, yeah, everything you need. I can. I can join. I can help you. I can try to understand and ask some questions. But yeah.
98 00:12:11.220 ⇒ 00:12:12.379 Nicolas Sucari: course, yeah, let me know.
99 00:12:12.380 ⇒ 00:12:12.860 Robert Tseng: So that.
100 00:12:12.920 ⇒ 00:12:13.880 Nicolas Sucari: Of your plans.
101 00:12:13.880 ⇒ 00:12:27.980 Robert Tseng: That one’s at noon on Mondays. So I mean, I know we have the 15th this W. This won’t be relevant until after next Monday, or whatever so, but moving forward, if if I if you want to be added to that one, I I can
102 00:12:28.000 ⇒ 00:12:30.619 Robert Tseng: I I mean I would I would add you to that to that meeting.
103 00:12:31.220 ⇒ 00:12:32.747 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect. I’m meeting
104 00:12:33.560 ⇒ 00:12:39.770 Nicolas Sucari: every meeting you want. I’m I’m down for it. I’m trying to help you on everything so that we can both
105 00:12:39.820 ⇒ 00:12:41.350 Nicolas Sucari: brain fortune. You
106 00:12:41.520 ⇒ 00:12:42.860 Nicolas Sucari: of the client. Okay.
107 00:12:43.170 ⇒ 00:12:44.450 Robert Tseng: Okay. Sounds good.
108 00:12:45.310 ⇒ 00:12:46.169 Nicolas Sucari: Thank you. Robert.
109 00:12:46.480 ⇒ 00:12:47.670 Robert Tseng: Alright, thanks, nico.
110 00:12:48.210 ⇒ 00:12:49.020 Nicolas Sucari: A night.
111 00:12:49.020 ⇒ 00:12:49.580 Robert Tseng: Matt.