Meeting Title: Weekly-Backlog-Grooming Date: 2024-08-29 Meeting participants: Nicolas Sucari, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:01:41.540 ⇒ 00:01:42.430 Nicolas Sucari: Are you, Tom?
2 00:01:45.910 ⇒ 00:01:46.950 Uttam Kumaran: Any cup.
3 00:01:48.480 ⇒ 00:01:49.400 Nicolas Sucari: How are you?
4 00:01:50.770 ⇒ 00:01:51.435 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
5 00:01:53.950 ⇒ 00:01:54.850 Uttam Kumaran: My
6 00:01:57.010 ⇒ 00:01:58.500 Uttam Kumaran: My truck back
7 00:01:58.890 ⇒ 00:02:02.090 Uttam Kumaran: battery has been struggling last
8 00:02:02.130 ⇒ 00:02:03.399 Uttam Kumaran: like few days.
9 00:02:07.210 ⇒ 00:02:08.330 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, okay.
10 00:02:09.522 ⇒ 00:02:13.989 Nicolas Sucari: what do you? It’s like just a replacement battery that you need.
11 00:02:13.990 ⇒ 00:02:19.002 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. I hope it’s like just a battery. It’s like,
12 00:02:20.030 ⇒ 00:02:22.449 Uttam Kumaran: I haven’t replaced the battery in a few years. So
13 00:02:22.680 ⇒ 00:02:24.150 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
14 00:02:24.580 ⇒ 00:02:35.789 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, the nice thing here. It’s like, if I drop the truck off at the dealership, they’ll they get me an uber to like anywhere I want to go while they’re working on it. So I came to a coffee shop. Nice?
15 00:02:37.739 ⇒ 00:02:41.399 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So so there.
16 00:02:42.070 ⇒ 00:02:42.950 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
17 00:02:43.710 ⇒ 00:02:45.230 Nicolas Sucari: How that got
18 00:02:45.720 ⇒ 00:02:47.380 Nicolas Sucari: solved soon.
19 00:02:47.380 ⇒ 00:02:49.148 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like my
20 00:02:49.600 ⇒ 00:02:51.999 Uttam Kumaran: my wi-fi, my my wi-fi.
21 00:02:52.000 ⇒ 00:02:57.040 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, your, your video. Yeah, your video is not like, it’s kind of freezed.
22 00:02:57.640 ⇒ 00:03:02.759 Nicolas Sucari: I’m I’m just gonna if you, wanna I’m just gonna stop the video. So maybe that works better.
23 00:03:03.550 ⇒ 00:03:06.370 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah.
24 00:03:06.550 ⇒ 00:03:07.260 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
25 00:03:09.110 ⇒ 00:03:11.289 Uttam Kumaran: How about now? Better.
26 00:03:11.290 ⇒ 00:03:13.950 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, I can hear you. Yeah, perfect.
27 00:03:18.300 ⇒ 00:03:20.320 Nicolas Sucari: Maybe there is kind of a delay.
28 00:03:20.320 ⇒ 00:03:22.520 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Yeah.
29 00:03:24.120 ⇒ 00:03:25.792 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let me move.
30 00:03:27.180 ⇒ 00:03:28.980 Uttam Kumaran: Let me just move a little bit
31 00:03:51.570 ⇒ 00:03:52.260 Uttam Kumaran: cool.
32 00:03:55.250 ⇒ 00:03:57.430 Uttam Kumaran: Have enough? Any better.
33 00:03:57.730 ⇒ 00:03:58.430 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
34 00:03:58.430 ⇒ 00:04:00.589 Nicolas Sucari: I can hear you perfect.
35 00:04:04.000 ⇒ 00:04:07.850 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. I think couple of things for today. So I’m in, like.
36 00:04:08.270 ⇒ 00:04:15.679 Uttam Kumaran: I have like a bunch of meetings today for sales and for the website, and for some
37 00:04:15.980 ⇒ 00:04:21.676 Uttam Kumaran: legal thing. So I’m gonna be kind of like heads down there. I’m gonna
38 00:04:22.710 ⇒ 00:04:27.639 Uttam Kumaran: do my best to join the call.
39 00:04:28.327 ⇒ 00:04:39.762 Uttam Kumaran: Switch up. I have a call right before that for a new opportunity, so I may be a little bit delayed.
40 00:04:41.410 ⇒ 00:04:48.107 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, no problem. I mean with Chuck. I wanna ask him about what he needs for that
41 00:04:48.630 ⇒ 00:04:54.499 Nicolas Sucari: purchase orders so that we can start working at that because he told us he was gonna send us
42 00:04:54.630 ⇒ 00:04:59.880 Nicolas Sucari: and the requirements. And he didn’t do that yet. So I’m gonna ask about that.
43 00:05:00.030 ⇒ 00:05:03.380 Nicolas Sucari: And I wanna go with it. Yeah, just try to.
44 00:05:03.380 ⇒ 00:05:06.859 Uttam Kumaran: Ping him. Yeah, ping him, ping him on slack before and that way.
45 00:05:06.860 ⇒ 00:05:07.580 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
46 00:05:07.760 ⇒ 00:05:08.840 Uttam Kumaran: Been prop a little bit.
47 00:05:09.680 ⇒ 00:05:17.800 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, I I’m gonna send. Yeah, maybe I can. I can send like, what’s will be the agenda for today in that meeting, so that he can.
48 00:05:18.300 ⇒ 00:05:36.599 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, prepare something. Probably I don’t know. But yeah, the idea is to ask about that, and then check with him at least and 0 to understand what we need to do that to to do there, so that we can fix any issue that is having with that integration.
49 00:05:38.380 ⇒ 00:05:39.255 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
50 00:05:42.460 ⇒ 00:05:43.220 Uttam Kumaran: Yep.
51 00:05:43.540 ⇒ 00:05:44.990 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Cool.
52 00:05:46.920 ⇒ 00:05:47.740 Nicolas Sucari: And then.
53 00:05:48.610 ⇒ 00:05:51.220 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Go ahead.
54 00:05:52.120 ⇒ 00:05:52.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
55 00:05:53.570 ⇒ 00:05:55.736 Uttam Kumaran: Bye, God.
56 00:05:56.820 ⇒ 00:06:11.440 Nicolas Sucari: That I think we with Kim we’re gonna just cancel the meeting for this week. I’m gonna meet with her next week directly with Rush. And yeah, we need we. So we have some time to keep working on the Daily
57 00:06:11.470 ⇒ 00:06:21.239 Nicolas Sucari: Kpis Kpi dashboards and keep Cha checking the revenues from Google, Facebook. And if we can add that into the paid performance
58 00:06:21.783 ⇒ 00:06:36.339 Nicolas Sucari: dashboard. But yeah, I mean, that’s that are the updates. I’m gonna send her some updates through slack. But that’s it. I mean, I don’t. I don’t think we have like some so so many other
59 00:06:37.004 ⇒ 00:06:39.580 Nicolas Sucari: things to to update.
60 00:06:44.530 ⇒ 00:06:45.275 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
61 00:06:52.965 ⇒ 00:06:57.580 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, try. I’m trying. Yeah. I’m trying to think if there’s anything else.
62 00:06:59.919 ⇒ 00:07:02.551 Nicolas Sucari: I don’t think so. I don’t know if
63 00:07:03.040 ⇒ 00:07:04.599 Nicolas Sucari: Ben or Dan
64 00:07:05.103 ⇒ 00:07:11.880 Nicolas Sucari: they, if they have like any requests, if they’ve been talking to you, or anything bad.
65 00:07:12.060 ⇒ 00:07:19.089 Nicolas Sucari: if not, I mean, we only have what we’ve been working for, Kim, and what we are trying to work on
66 00:07:19.100 ⇒ 00:07:22.219 Nicolas Sucari: with Chuck. We don’t have like anything else, I think, for now.
67 00:07:22.220 ⇒ 00:07:28.569 Uttam Kumaran: I think the biggest thing before we’re going back and re engaging with them is, I want to make sure that the real dashboards are all like.
68 00:07:28.570 ⇒ 00:07:28.950 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
69 00:07:28.950 ⇒ 00:07:43.710 Uttam Kumaran: Clean so let me even, I think, actually, I want to take a look at kind of what you did in in notion. Because I think that’s that. Actually, the way it is now looks really, really clean, like we just have, like our roadmap. There.
70 00:07:43.710 ⇒ 00:07:44.160 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
71 00:07:46.400 ⇒ 00:07:57.050 Uttam Kumaran: So that way, you know, ideally, what I want to do is kind of begin to share screenshots of that in the in the weekly update as well.
72 00:07:57.677 ⇒ 00:08:09.479 Uttam Kumaran: You know that way. We can start to use that to track, I think, especially as like a lot of the stuff is analysis related? We can begin to use the roadmap. There.
73 00:08:11.740 ⇒ 00:08:15.019 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, the only thing is that, okay, yeah.
74 00:08:15.090 ⇒ 00:08:21.550 Nicolas Sucari: I can use. I can use that. And we can. Yeah, we need to like
75 00:08:21.560 ⇒ 00:08:30.079 Nicolas Sucari: like to send in the in the email update. We need to just send what we have for popers, right? Because I need to filter down.
76 00:08:30.960 ⇒ 00:08:34.279 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know about the in the in your roadmap. It’s only.
77 00:08:34.289 ⇒ 00:08:44.219 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, okay, okay, yeah. I’m sorry. Sorry I was. I was looking at the wrong page, because then we have the management task page where we have the project filtered.
78 00:08:44.220 ⇒ 00:08:45.980 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
79 00:08:46.510 ⇒ 00:08:53.990 Nicolas Sucari: So yeah, but don’t don’t worry. I get what you’re saying. Yeah, I need to go to clients, full parts, and we have it area on the roadmap.
80 00:08:53.990 ⇒ 00:08:58.100 Uttam Kumaran: Management tasks like we’ll just keep it for us. And then this road map.
81 00:08:58.100 ⇒ 00:08:58.759 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I think is.
82 00:08:58.760 ⇒ 00:09:04.920 Uttam Kumaran: Good, because just screenshot like, Hey, these are the things that we’re working on.
83 00:09:06.240 ⇒ 00:09:07.560 Uttam Kumaran: And
84 00:09:08.110 ⇒ 00:09:10.090 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, that’s mainly it.
85 00:09:12.540 ⇒ 00:09:19.209 Uttam Kumaran: So these roadmap tasks like, where are they pulling from? They’re just pulling from? This is just a database here.
86 00:09:19.840 ⇒ 00:09:24.120 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, it’s a database here. Yeah, exactly. I created a database here. Yeah.
87 00:09:25.180 ⇒ 00:09:26.010 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
88 00:09:28.010 ⇒ 00:09:48.129 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, the the I created like 2 views, the table views so that we can see, like all the tasks. But then I have the timeline and the timeline like. If if we can add when we are working on each of the tasks like the dates that should create like that kind of more road map view right? Like you can see it with dates.
89 00:09:48.675 ⇒ 00:09:50.279 Nicolas Sucari: So kind of.
90 00:09:50.330 ⇒ 00:09:57.860 Nicolas Sucari: So we understand a little bit more on when we were working on each of the tasks. And we have that more. As a
91 00:09:58.200 ⇒ 00:10:02.799 Nicolas Sucari: yeah, I know, for tracking and checking estimations and that kind of stuff.
92 00:10:04.300 ⇒ 00:10:05.730 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think the
93 00:10:05.860 ⇒ 00:10:16.529 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I think the biggest thing is as long as we have just a list of the things they’re working on, and we give our like summary as well like. I like our summary, and then I want to put this at the bottom.
94 00:10:16.710 ⇒ 00:10:20.000 Uttam Kumaran: And then I think that’s the big thing, like
95 00:10:20.010 ⇒ 00:10:23.639 Uttam Kumaran: again, we’re testing things out. But then I also.
96 00:10:23.670 ⇒ 00:10:28.679 Uttam Kumaran: when we this is also the thing is like, we kind of saw the challenges.
97 00:10:29.145 ⇒ 00:10:37.880 Uttam Kumaran: Like the one thing I wanna also try to nail with Stella is like we have a we’re gonna start to have a larger roadmap and.
98 00:10:37.880 ⇒ 00:10:38.430 Nicolas Sucari: They!
99 00:10:38.430 ⇒ 00:10:57.070 Uttam Kumaran: I wanna start to have like a little bit of like a 1 month and 2 month view of like, what’s what we’re doing next month, you know. So I feel like for full parts. You know, we have like at least another month of work right here. But for Stella I’m gonna wanna set something like, you know, at least a month or 2 month view of like all the things that we’re gonna be working on
100 00:11:00.030 ⇒ 00:11:00.589 Uttam Kumaran: And then.
101 00:11:00.590 ⇒ 00:11:01.520 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, that’s a little bit.
102 00:11:01.520 ⇒ 00:11:15.809 Uttam Kumaran: Here. I want that to live here in notion, because we have the Github issues. But again, it’s only 10 items. So it’s not that hard to keep track of updated once a week in notion, and also have the Github issues for the engineering side.
103 00:11:16.720 ⇒ 00:11:25.129 Nicolas Sucari: No, that’s fine. I mean, we can. We can have both. I think it’s it’s useful. With Stella. We need Robert to give us, like.
104 00:11:25.507 ⇒ 00:11:36.960 Nicolas Sucari: the requirements and try to plan with him what we’ll be doing for that month like a month or 2 months, so that we can. Yeah, have everything here in ocean.
105 00:11:37.384 ⇒ 00:11:44.309 Nicolas Sucari: Because they were changing like a lot on the requirements. So yeah, it was kind of tricky to have like that planning
106 00:11:44.340 ⇒ 00:11:46.590 Nicolas Sucari: like midterm planning. But yeah, if.
107 00:11:46.590 ⇒ 00:11:47.570 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
108 00:11:47.900 ⇒ 00:11:55.719 Nicolas Sucari: If they, if he can give us like more clear requirements and client like, what are the goals for the next 3 months? We can create that. It’s easy.
109 00:11:55.970 ⇒ 00:11:58.267 Uttam Kumaran: So you saw his note in
110 00:12:01.370 ⇒ 00:12:07.599 Uttam Kumaran: in the Stella Channel he sent a note about. He’s having a call with Stella on.
111 00:12:07.600 ⇒ 00:12:09.379 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, it’s okay.
112 00:12:09.380 ⇒ 00:12:14.130 Uttam Kumaran: I think the one thing is like, can we? I want to start a doc
113 00:12:14.740 ⇒ 00:12:22.262 Uttam Kumaran: on our side about like basically planning out the next 3 months of Stella.
114 00:12:23.470 ⇒ 00:12:32.969 Uttam Kumaran: So let’s do that, and then let’s me. And you can just have a meeting where we’ll we’ll walk through like, what are some things that we can do for them. Maybe tomorrow.
115 00:12:32.970 ⇒ 00:12:34.850 Nicolas Sucari: Okay. Yeah. Sure.
116 00:12:34.850 ⇒ 00:12:46.919 Uttam Kumaran: Cause I think it’s gonna be a little bit of a mix of like we’re gonna we’ll propose a couple of things, and then we can also ask from him, and then kind of propose that. So
117 00:12:47.050 ⇒ 00:13:04.200 Uttam Kumaran: if you don’t mind creating a task and management task just for Stella, 3 month roadmap, and then he already sent some notes. You can copy these notes into there and then he’s working on this data strategy deck.
118 00:13:09.820 ⇒ 00:13:15.950 Uttam Kumaran: so yeah, I mean, I don’t know. Let me see, even if like, I may have time later today, too. So let’s see.
119 00:13:18.810 ⇒ 00:13:23.860 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, let me know. I just created that desk, create a telephony
120 00:13:24.506 ⇒ 00:13:27.120 Nicolas Sucari: and I can create a page in this.
121 00:13:27.120 ⇒ 00:13:33.830 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, just throw his throw, throw his note in here in there, and then let’s just
122 00:13:34.510 ⇒ 00:13:40.070 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. If I have, if I have any brain power left later today. Let’s just try to work on that.
123 00:13:40.370 ⇒ 00:13:45.090 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, let me know I’m yeah. I’m available. I I’ll but yeah.
124 00:13:45.410 ⇒ 00:13:51.090 Nicolas Sucari: after the chat meeting, maybe. Or yeah, you let you let me know when that’s that works for you.
125 00:13:52.275 ⇒ 00:13:53.170 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
126 00:13:57.590 ⇒ 00:13:59.619 Nicolas Sucari: And I’m gonna add.
127 00:14:01.840 ⇒ 00:14:04.070 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just looking for.
128 00:14:59.920 ⇒ 00:15:01.784 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. So let’s
129 00:15:04.850 ⇒ 00:15:15.279 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s plan that. And we’ll see if we can do that today because he has a meeting with them tomorrow. I’ll just let you know when I’m when I get available. Okay, let’s go from there.
130 00:15:15.280 ⇒ 00:15:20.800 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, yeah, I’m meeting with sureash and Ryan in like half an hour.
131 00:15:21.290 ⇒ 00:15:21.929 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Great.
132 00:15:21.930 ⇒ 00:15:25.490 Nicolas Sucari: And start like, yeah, working on that data. And
133 00:15:25.510 ⇒ 00:15:32.930 Nicolas Sucari: yeah, see how sure she’s going. And yeah. And then I’m meeting with Chuck. So let me know when you, when you’re free, and we can work on this one.
134 00:15:33.850 ⇒ 00:15:40.760 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. Yeah. I think the biggest thing is like, I think, a lot of the questions that Siraj probably has for me. He can go straight to Ryan. So that’s the one thing.
135 00:15:40.760 ⇒ 00:15:41.360 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
136 00:15:41.360 ⇒ 00:15:43.190 Uttam Kumaran: Establish, cool.
137 00:15:43.190 ⇒ 00:15:46.829 Nicolas Sucari: I I didn’t invited you to that meeting. But yeah, I think we can start.
138 00:15:46.830 ⇒ 00:15:50.429 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, that’s fine. I’m yeah. Yeah, that’s perfect.
139 00:15:50.580 ⇒ 00:15:52.060 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect.
140 00:15:52.560 ⇒ 00:15:52.930 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
141 00:15:54.725 ⇒ 00:15:58.410 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Alright, thank you. I’ll probably chat with you later today.
142 00:15:58.850 ⇒ 00:16:00.920 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect. Thanks, Adam. Bye-bye.
143 00:16:00.920 ⇒ 00:16:02.519 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks, Nika. Talk to you soon.