Meeting Title: US x BF | Sprint Retro Date: 2025-06-23 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Emily Giant, Amber Lin, Demilade Agboola, Zack Gibbs, Caio Velasco
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1 00:01:15.870 ⇒ 00:01:21.530 Amber Lin: Hi, last time we tried fake jam and didn’t work because
2 00:01:21.650 ⇒ 00:01:29.169 Amber Lin: it doesn’t give urban stems people access. I’m gonna make a template. Oh, where is this?
3 00:01:29.810 ⇒ 00:01:31.809 Amber Lin: I’m gonna make a template here.
4 00:01:45.660 ⇒ 00:01:46.395 Zack Gibbs: Hello!
5 00:01:47.360 ⇒ 00:01:48.650 Amber Lin: Hi.
6 00:01:48.650 ⇒ 00:01:49.540 Emily Giant: Hello!
7 00:01:56.190 ⇒ 00:01:59.610 Amber Lin: Let’s wait another minute for Kyle.
8 00:02:01.270 ⇒ 00:02:02.510 Amber Lin: We’ll have.
9 00:02:02.690 ⇒ 00:02:04.080 Amber Lin: We’ll start soon.
10 00:02:23.346 ⇒ 00:02:25.030 Zack Gibbs: As we’re waiting and.
11 00:02:26.120 ⇒ 00:02:33.250 Zack Gibbs: I think we were. We were chatting about it. I got back. I got back last Friday. I was trying to like catch up on things so
12 00:02:33.714 ⇒ 00:02:49.219 Zack Gibbs: fully back in the next couple of weeks, and I just wanna make sure that we’re like driving driving things forward here as much as we can. I think the the basic question that I have unrelated to this retro is just kind of, and I’ll post this in our
13 00:02:49.420 ⇒ 00:02:57.070 Zack Gibbs: in our shared channel. So tag you amber
14 00:03:00.830 ⇒ 00:03:21.909 Zack Gibbs: So we had, you know the notion. Kind of the notion, Doc, was the high level, you know, alignment, Doc, that that we agreed upon as we started this. I know that there’s, you know there’s, you know, the breaking down of that over the last, you know, couple couple of few weeks. It would be good for a realignment of
15 00:03:22.330 ⇒ 00:03:24.850 Zack Gibbs: pulling out those P. 0 items and saying.
16 00:03:25.220 ⇒ 00:03:28.937 Zack Gibbs: Are we associated to on each of those items?
17 00:03:29.860 ⇒ 00:03:34.170 Zack Gibbs: versus, you know where we are in linear tactically
18 00:03:34.990 ⇒ 00:03:39.880 Zack Gibbs: today so amber, if you if you could take that as a follow up item that would be helpful kind of.
19 00:03:39.880 ⇒ 00:03:40.580 Amber Lin: Yeah. Totally.
20 00:03:40.580 ⇒ 00:03:50.836 Zack Gibbs: On on those. And really, what I want to make sure that we are doing is we’re starting to in, engage and involve some of the internal stakeholders.
21 00:03:51.940 ⇒ 00:04:00.883 Zack Gibbs: So they they get a view of what’s going on here. And can start getting more embedded on the the team
22 00:04:01.863 ⇒ 00:04:26.749 Zack Gibbs: around inventory model data mark changes. Anything like on the revenue side. Like I, we just need to start involving a broader coalition of team members. So I think the 1st step is, let’s let’s talk about where we are in the P. 0 items on that original plan. How that associates to linear if we need to like. If some of those need to be like broken, you know epics. And there’s the items in linear that are underneath them completely fine. I just want that.
23 00:04:26.830 ⇒ 00:04:31.679 Zack Gibbs: The 1st step and then second step is like, how do we get a broader group of folks involved.
24 00:04:32.315 ⇒ 00:04:56.469 Amber Lin: I’ll do a quick update here. And I’ll write you an email update, I was planning to do that today, after we do the retro. So we close up the sprint. So 1st thing on involving the stakeholders, we’ve scheduled a bi-weekly meeting with all the data stakeholders, we’ve done our 1st meeting a week ago. And we’re having our next meeting on this Thursday. So this Thursday is gonna we’re gonna present to them
25 00:04:56.470 ⇒ 00:05:01.379 Amber Lin: the dashboards that we mark for deprecation and talk about
26 00:05:02.250 ⇒ 00:05:11.200 Amber Lin: how to get their feedback on all of them. And last week we talked about what the work that we’ve been doing on inventory and revenue march.
27 00:05:11.650 ⇒ 00:05:26.149 Amber Lin: So that’s the 1st one. And then I just pulled up the notion Doc and I was looking at. I checked this one usually based on cycles. But I’ll write an update based on the p 1 priority items.
28 00:05:28.640 ⇒ 00:05:31.710 Zack Gibbs: Yeah, I think we saw I wanted to start with just the P. Zeros.
29 00:05:31.710 ⇒ 00:05:43.550 Amber Lin: Oh, sorry the P. Zeros. Yeah. I looked at them, and most of them should be done. I’ll write you an update. Maybe I’ll add a column here to talk about their current status, so you can have an overview of them.
30 00:05:44.440 ⇒ 00:05:47.105 Zack Gibbs: Okay, when is that Thursday meeting?
31 00:05:48.160 ⇒ 00:05:48.789 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me.
32 00:05:48.790 ⇒ 00:05:50.320 Zack Gibbs: I don’t see it.
33 00:05:50.580 ⇒ 00:05:54.349 Zack Gibbs: Is it a bi-weekly, bi-weekly demo? Is that it?
34 00:05:54.580 ⇒ 00:05:55.240 Amber Lin: Yeah.
35 00:05:55.780 ⇒ 00:05:56.160 Zack Gibbs: Oh!
36 00:05:56.670 ⇒ 00:06:02.052 Amber Lin: Let me see. Oh, yeah, let me invite you.
37 00:06:04.340 ⇒ 00:06:05.250 Amber Lin: Yeah.
38 00:06:05.250 ⇒ 00:06:07.329 Zack Gibbs: How well attended was that 1st meeting.
39 00:06:08.280 ⇒ 00:06:19.530 Amber Lin: The 1st meeting. Everybody was there. The second meeting I’m looking at the here. Half of them are out of office, or and Santi’s on medical leave.
40 00:06:21.450 ⇒ 00:06:22.100 Zack Gibbs: Okay.
41 00:06:22.300 ⇒ 00:06:26.650 Emily Giant: Yeah, we need to actually add in Jessica Campbell in his place.
42 00:06:28.450 ⇒ 00:06:29.025 Emily Giant: And
43 00:06:29.600 ⇒ 00:06:30.230 Amber Lin: Okay.
44 00:06:31.340 ⇒ 00:06:41.310 Emily Giant: Potentially 1 1 of the other analysts. I’ll sync with Yvonne on that, and and send you those names to add to the invite. Since Santi’s on leave.
45 00:06:41.970 ⇒ 00:06:43.458 Amber Lin: Okay, sure sounds good.
46 00:06:45.196 ⇒ 00:06:46.989 Amber Lin: Let’s see.
47 00:06:47.980 ⇒ 00:06:49.790 Amber Lin: Alright, everybody’s here
48 00:06:50.344 ⇒ 00:07:01.370 Amber Lin: we’ll get started with the retro. And Zack. I know Utam also wanted to book a sync with you and Alex, so we’ll reach out on when you have time for that.
49 00:07:03.310 ⇒ 00:07:03.880 Zack Gibbs: Okay.
50 00:07:04.320 ⇒ 00:07:29.207 Amber Lin: Yeah. So I’m gonna set a quick timer, and I hope everybody can spend some time to put down their stickies on what you think went well, and what needs improvement. And then after that we’ll have a session. We’ll have another time where where we can put stamps on things that we agree on. So feel free. On the left side there’s a sticky
51 00:07:29.810 ⇒ 00:07:34.589 Amber Lin: and you can put more stickies on each of the big sections.
52 00:07:34.980 ⇒ 00:07:35.590 Amber Lin: I’m gonna say.
53 00:07:36.080 ⇒ 00:07:38.120 Zack Gibbs: Is the last last 2 weeks. Right?
54 00:07:38.120 ⇒ 00:07:38.890 Amber Lin: Yes.
55 00:07:39.300 ⇒ 00:07:44.689 Zack Gibbs: Okay, so I will not be adding anything. So I was gone. But I am. I do. I’m interested in kind of the.
56 00:07:45.260 ⇒ 00:07:45.790 Amber Lin: Totally.
57 00:07:45.790 ⇒ 00:07:46.390 Zack Gibbs: So.
58 00:07:46.660 ⇒ 00:07:50.530 Amber Lin: Yeah, I’ll set a 4 min timer and we’ll regroup.
59 00:08:18.710 ⇒ 00:08:22.120 Amber Lin: Is everyone able to add stickies or comment on them.
60 00:08:22.500 ⇒ 00:08:25.019 Emily Giant: Can you resend me the link? I don’t know if I’m like.
61 00:08:25.180 ⇒ 00:08:30.539 Amber Lin: Oh, it’s in the whiteboards. Can everybody see the whiteboard? It’s in zoom.
62 00:08:30.540 ⇒ 00:08:31.160 Emily Giant: Yeah.
63 00:08:35.280 ⇒ 00:08:37.250 Emily Giant: Think I’m still in the wrong spot, though.
64 00:08:38.750 ⇒ 00:08:39.330 Amber Lin: Hmm.
65 00:08:42.419 ⇒ 00:08:46.129 Emily Giant: So I don’t see anyone else in this board, is it? It’s a different board than last time.
66 00:08:47.000 ⇒ 00:08:51.060 Amber Lin: Oh, sorry! It’s in zoom whiteboards, so.
67 00:08:51.060 ⇒ 00:08:51.700 Emily Giant: Oh!
68 00:08:51.700 ⇒ 00:08:52.370 Amber Lin: In zoom.
69 00:08:52.370 ⇒ 00:08:57.800 Emily Giant: Gotcha. Sorry you said all of that. I do not. I’ve never accessed this before more.
70 00:08:57.800 ⇒ 00:08:58.640 Amber Lin: All good.
71 00:08:58.640 ⇒ 00:09:00.420 Emily Giant: Whiteboards got it.
72 00:09:02.060 ⇒ 00:09:03.470 Amber Lin: Yeah, I see you there now.
73 00:09:03.730 ⇒ 00:09:04.500 Emily Giant: Okay.
74 00:09:05.180 ⇒ 00:09:09.889 Emily Giant: However, I don’t actually see like a way to.
75 00:09:10.960 ⇒ 00:09:13.600 Amber Lin: There’s a white bar on the left.
76 00:09:13.600 ⇒ 00:09:15.080 Emily Giant: I gotcha. Okay.
77 00:09:16.160 ⇒ 00:09:18.589 Emily Giant: Sorry. Learning curve with new things.
78 00:09:29.320 ⇒ 00:09:30.000 Emily Giant: Oh.
79 00:12:00.720 ⇒ 00:12:02.239 Amber Lin: Does everyone need more time.
80 00:12:02.920 ⇒ 00:12:04.440 Emily Giant: I need a little bit more time.
81 00:12:04.440 ⇒ 00:12:06.119 Amber Lin: Okay, 2 more minutes.
82 00:14:11.970 ⇒ 00:14:12.850 Amber Lin: Okay.
83 00:14:13.130 ⇒ 00:14:31.319 Amber Lin: I’m going to set another 3 min timer. So when you go on the left side, you know, there is a smiley face that says stickers and emojis. I want everyone to just take a stamp and stamp on anything you agree with, so we’ll take another 3 min to do that.
84 00:14:37.500 ⇒ 00:14:46.780 Amber Lin: So left side column, the big, the left on the left, the white bar on the left, on the very bottom. There’s a smiley face.
85 00:14:47.130 ⇒ 00:14:49.369 Amber Lin: It says stickers and emojis.
86 00:15:09.920 ⇒ 00:15:11.619 Amber Lin: Did everybody find that.
87 00:15:12.220 ⇒ 00:15:12.890 Emily Giant: Okay.
88 00:15:13.190 ⇒ 00:15:14.060 Amber Lin: Awesome.
89 00:17:37.140 ⇒ 00:17:48.500 Amber Lin: all right. Seems like everybody’s done. Let’s go section by section and just talk about the different stickies and what we feel about them, and we’ll see a theme emerge.
90 00:17:48.620 ⇒ 00:18:05.400 Amber Lin: So, looking at the green parts, so on what went well, that move so about morning meetings, shorter standups.
91 00:18:07.980 ⇒ 00:18:13.900 Amber Lin: checking, working sessions, working sessions was helpful.
92 00:18:18.250 ⇒ 00:18:24.790 Amber Lin: Better meeting efficiency, better grooming. Prep.
93 00:18:32.700 ⇒ 00:18:34.839 Amber Lin: Think on another part.
94 00:18:35.060 ⇒ 00:18:42.590 Amber Lin: Lot of us agree with good documentation.
95 00:18:44.930 ⇒ 00:18:49.390 Amber Lin: Oh, marking it for deprecation.
96 00:18:51.180 ⇒ 00:18:55.550 Amber Lin: Better clarity tickets.
97 00:19:03.570 ⇒ 00:19:05.850 Amber Lin: Oh, all right.
98 00:19:16.180 ⇒ 00:19:20.180 Amber Lin: so seems like a big theme. Here is
99 00:19:20.560 ⇒ 00:19:39.030 Amber Lin: one that we improved a lot on our meeting meeting time, so they were more efficient we had. We also booked other meetings where it was needed. So both Kyle got up to speed, and also we were able to use those working sessions to get a lot of things done.
100 00:19:39.150 ⇒ 00:19:42.949 Amber Lin: And another big theme I see here is
101 00:19:43.100 ⇒ 00:19:52.449 Amber Lin: for on the deprecation side and on data data platform. A lot of a lot of documentation was done so
102 00:19:52.580 ⇒ 00:19:54.960 Amber Lin: as well as a lot of auditing. So
103 00:19:55.410 ⇒ 00:20:05.499 Amber Lin: that’s a big area that we make great progress in. And then, lastly, it’s inventory refactor, and also starting on modeling
104 00:20:09.550 ⇒ 00:20:13.689 Amber Lin: anything else you guys want to chime in on on what we did. Well, this cycle.
105 00:20:17.950 ⇒ 00:20:21.487 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think we made a lot of great progress on the deprecation.
106 00:20:23.200 ⇒ 00:20:28.500 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think it’s it wasn’t easy to sort of go through that much stuff. So I think we
107 00:20:28.890 ⇒ 00:20:34.649 Uttam Kumaran: you know, we sort of bit the bullet and and and we have a lot of stuff that we’re ready to remove. So.
108 00:20:37.520 ⇒ 00:20:38.190 Amber Lin: Awesome.
109 00:20:39.180 ⇒ 00:20:43.149 Amber Lin: So on to the next part.
110 00:20:43.660 ⇒ 00:20:46.180 Amber Lin: So what needs improvements?
111 00:20:51.480 ⇒ 00:20:52.370 Amber Lin: sure.
112 00:20:52.520 ⇒ 00:21:01.680 Amber Lin: I guess, for that. Can can I get a quick round table from everybody to talk about what you feel after you’ve read everybody’s stickies.
113 00:21:03.370 ⇒ 00:21:06.199 Amber Lin: and or talk about the stickies that you put down.
114 00:21:07.125 ⇒ 00:21:08.659 Amber Lin: Kyle, do you want to start.
115 00:21:12.290 ⇒ 00:21:12.940 Caio Velasco: Sure.
116 00:21:16.130 ⇒ 00:21:35.850 Caio Velasco: So for me. Well, we definitely have more clarity on tickets. But sometimes I do need a bit more overview of a project and linear itself. So that I understand, like the end to end what is happening, where? What we wanna do. But I think that’s it’s something that’s normal. We just pushing for more clarity. I think so. It’s important.
117 00:21:37.960 ⇒ 00:21:41.940 Caio Velasco: Let me see what else? Well, I also see something about well.
118 00:21:42.420 ⇒ 00:21:52.739 Caio Velasco: Emily’s time and those things, but I mean from my side honestly, seeing how much things sometimes she has to do with with, you know, over and stand and ad hoc stuff.
119 00:21:52.880 ⇒ 00:21:56.579 Caio Velasco: She’s been quite helpful to be honest, especially with the working session. So
120 00:21:56.800 ⇒ 00:22:00.680 Caio Velasco: I agree that it’s great to have like more time and everything. But
121 00:22:00.800 ⇒ 00:22:08.220 Caio Velasco: in my view she’s been doing what she can, or even more than that. But yeah, that’s what I can see from from here.
122 00:22:10.060 ⇒ 00:22:20.479 Amber Lin: Totally, and that’s something I can do. I I will. I just started to flesh out the project for revenue. So, moving forward, I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll do that.
123 00:22:22.196 ⇒ 00:22:23.070 Caio Velasco: Perfect. Yeah.
124 00:22:23.070 ⇒ 00:22:25.399 Amber Lin: Emily, what about you?
125 00:22:26.622 ⇒ 00:22:32.069 Emily Giant: One of the things that I wish I would have put down that I didn’t. I feel like I
126 00:22:34.660 ⇒ 00:22:39.080 Emily Giant: I haven’t, and don’t know when to communicate. Like
127 00:22:40.360 ⇒ 00:22:54.259 Emily Giant: to not refractor certain models, because we’ll need to replace them with shopify models. So I and I don’t like, I think lack of clarity on Dbt modeling would be like one of my
128 00:22:54.520 ⇒ 00:23:07.429 Emily Giant: call outs for, like something that I wish I understood the plan or what the in progress stuff was a little bit better. So I guess that ties into my ticket with the
129 00:23:07.930 ⇒ 00:23:26.129 Emily Giant: for like ticket audits and in progress work, just knowing, like what branch someone is developing in, like, what their game plan is outside of like audit, this sometimes it becomes like unclear to me what the work is that’s being done, and I’m concerned that
130 00:23:26.660 ⇒ 00:23:30.079 Emily Giant: I won’t know what to communicate back to Zack and Alex. In the event that, like.
131 00:23:30.400 ⇒ 00:23:49.679 Emily Giant: they’re not able to attend meetings. So like just internally, it gets a little muddled like what we should expect to see. And also, I don’t wanna duplicate the work cause a lot of times my ad hoc things which would be something breaking will start trickling into those areas. And I don’t wanna
132 00:23:50.310 ⇒ 00:24:07.169 Emily Giant: duplicate work that someone’s doing. So I think I guess the more umbrella sentiment would be better clarity and like documentation of where in progress work is happening and more specific
133 00:24:09.560 ⇒ 00:24:11.350 Emily Giant: acceptance criteria.
134 00:24:12.045 ⇒ 00:24:12.740 Amber Lin: Okay.
135 00:24:14.720 ⇒ 00:24:26.769 Emily Giant: And then the other was like, a couple of times Kayo and I like we’d like get through this deprecation audit. But then it was unclear what to do from there. So just making that like, it’s.
136 00:24:27.340 ⇒ 00:24:30.959 Emily Giant: I guess that’s also part of the more specific acceptance criteria of like
137 00:24:31.580 ⇒ 00:24:41.730 Emily Giant: the audit versus the action of deprecating. And what steps that involves like? Are we meeting with stakeholders? How long do we think that will take, etc, etc?
138 00:24:43.700 ⇒ 00:24:45.230 Amber Lin: I see. So
139 00:24:45.510 ⇒ 00:25:12.339 Amber Lin: to to some of I think there’s a your comments are about clarity of what? Where is stuff going on and what’s going to happen? After that? So having a better sense of overall, it’s importance. It’s next next next steps, and also so that you can fulfill your job of communicating to your supervisors. And so
140 00:25:12.800 ⇒ 00:25:35.600 Amber Lin: I think what we can do from there is so for the tickets to clearly link them to what’s going to happen next? And in kickoff and in in planning to clearly talk about okay, this ticket. When it’s done, it’s going to lead to this, and for engineers when we do work to
141 00:25:36.093 ⇒ 00:25:43.120 Amber Lin: leave a comment in linear on what needs to what? What? Where work is getting done?
142 00:25:43.685 ⇒ 00:25:47.239 Emily Giant: Yeah, like. And then there’s that like underlying concern of.
143 00:25:47.690 ⇒ 00:26:02.740 Emily Giant: I know that this data at the source is broken, and I don’t want to spend time refractoring that thing, because I know that we have like untouched models that need to be. And whenever I know work is getting done, I’m like, Oh, gosh! I hope it’s
144 00:26:03.060 ⇒ 00:26:07.920 Emily Giant: the not in these tables that we need to like put to bed.
145 00:26:10.384 ⇒ 00:26:17.000 Amber Lin: I see, on that one. Any thoughts on the floor here.
146 00:26:19.282 ⇒ 00:26:24.039 Demilade Agboola: I mean to be fair, I think. This past week.
147 00:26:24.190 ⇒ 00:26:28.800 Demilade Agboola: I know, like I haven’t necessarily been in the like space.
148 00:26:29.100 ⇒ 00:26:42.940 Demilade Agboola: like I mean, I have not always had the same time to sync on calls. Like we’ve had to cancel a couple of stand ups or not. I know there’s a stand up be cancelled, I know, like some working session got canceled. So it’s been
149 00:26:43.120 ⇒ 00:26:48.180 Demilade Agboola: communicating on progress hasn’t been the smoothest, especially about the past like week.
150 00:26:48.350 ⇒ 00:27:06.580 Demilade Agboola: But yeah, it’s definitely something that we could, we, we should look at. And just trying to be more like this is what’s happening. This is what will happen. And this is how everything tied in together, because there’s progress being made. It’s just like keeping Emily in the loop of what’s going on in terms of that progress?
151 00:27:07.095 ⇒ 00:27:08.870 Demilade Agboola: And just ensuring that like.
152 00:27:09.268 ⇒ 00:27:17.599 Demilade Agboola: Anything that’s going on. Because also at the end of the Emily isn’t always going to like, go through every single ticket or whatever, but also like just having that like.
153 00:27:17.810 ⇒ 00:27:23.970 Demilade Agboola: This is what’s happening. This is how far we’re how far along we are, and these are the changes that are being made.
154 00:27:24.480 ⇒ 00:27:40.550 Emily Giant: Yeah, and you’re totally right. That the last week was difficult, like we had. We had sicknesses. We had days off. We had, like the last week I came into today like, Okay, I’m ready now. But it was a a bit of a all over the place week.
155 00:27:42.930 ⇒ 00:27:43.500 Zack Gibbs: Okay.
156 00:27:44.315 ⇒ 00:28:11.764 Zack Gibbs: From from my point of view, I’ve been. I’ve been gone. My point of view. I would. I would rather us less. I would rather us focus on less things, and like, have really clear understanding of what we’re driving forward and like chipping, start chipping away at that. Those smaller, fewer things. That’s why I kind of want to tie this back to, you know some of the P. 0 items that we had originally out, you know, outlined and you know that we we feel good about the plan.
157 00:28:12.150 ⇒ 00:28:15.879 Zack Gibbs: and we’re all like a hundred percent focused on
158 00:28:16.170 ⇒ 00:28:31.664 Zack Gibbs: X, which is in my mind is like, let’s build out the inventory data mark. That’s that is X in the short term. And then let’s move on to the revenue data mark like in like, what are the predecessors before that? And who’s taking that work? How can we move that forward? What needs to be done in parallel? Yada Yada. So
159 00:28:32.120 ⇒ 00:28:46.670 Zack Gibbs: That’s kind of what I want to get to, and you know this sprint has got a week left. I think it’s completely fine, like what’s in the sprint. But I think for next sprint we should tie back, you know, to a project or epics. However, we do it in linear whatever makes sense and
160 00:28:47.390 ⇒ 00:28:53.440 Zack Gibbs: feel good about going into this next sprint with a more targeted focus plan.
161 00:28:54.347 ⇒ 00:29:14.430 Amber Lin: Zach, we are. Sprint is our current sprint is finished. So this is the last day of our sprint, and our sprint is starting. New sprint is starting tomorrow. I think it could be. Let me take a take this feedback, go back, look at our backlog, and then, if you want, I can
162 00:29:14.520 ⇒ 00:29:25.930 Amber Lin: quickly sync with you tomorrow or or just send you Async updates on what we plan to do next spring, and let’s get aligned on that before we kick off the next sprint.
163 00:29:27.320 ⇒ 00:29:34.750 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And I, I just wanna make a point. I feel like we’re still pretty much aligned to what we put into the the.
164 00:29:35.430 ⇒ 00:29:39.640 Uttam Kumaran: Plan because we just spent the whole sprint. Basically, we did all of the
165 00:29:39.770 ⇒ 00:29:51.579 Uttam Kumaran: documentation and analysis of like, what dashboards, views, and explores can get deprecated, what Dvt models can get deprecated, what all the Etl related stuff can get deprecated. And that’s basically like
166 00:29:51.730 ⇒ 00:29:55.230 Uttam Kumaran: done or sort of at the at the end, so I don’t think we’re like.
167 00:29:55.230 ⇒ 00:30:02.470 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, and also in terms of like modeling for like inventory stuff. We have started the modeling for
168 00:30:03.010 ⇒ 00:30:17.910 Demilade Agboola: inventory and putting things together. And plans wrap that up today. Obviously, the the next phase of model will continue next sprint. But it’s definitely work in progress right now.
169 00:30:21.020 ⇒ 00:30:26.229 Zack Gibbs: Yeah, I don’t know why I was thinking that we were. It was off by a week. On the cycles.
170 00:30:28.020 ⇒ 00:30:33.040 Zack Gibbs: But yeah, that is ending today. Okay? So
171 00:30:35.420 ⇒ 00:30:38.730 Zack Gibbs: oh, I see. And there’s a sprint kickoff tomorrow. As well.
172 00:30:41.550 ⇒ 00:30:45.869 Zack Gibbs: Yeah, I’m totally not trying to derail this. I’ve been out last 2 weeks. I haven’t gotten the full context.
173 00:30:45.870 ⇒ 00:30:46.260 Amber Lin: I just want.
174 00:30:46.260 ⇒ 00:30:48.690 Zack Gibbs: Make sure that we we all feel good about, you know.
175 00:30:49.160 ⇒ 00:30:54.484 Zack Gibbs: The next the next the next sprint, which I thought was next King up next week. But
176 00:30:55.060 ⇒ 00:31:00.509 Zack Gibbs: yeah, whatever we need you to get aligned for this upcoming spring Kickoff. Happy to
177 00:31:01.440 ⇒ 00:31:02.809 Zack Gibbs: to coordinate if we need to.
178 00:31:02.810 ⇒ 00:31:03.270 Amber Lin: Okay.
179 00:31:03.270 ⇒ 00:31:03.790 Zack Gibbs: Ad hoc.
180 00:31:03.790 ⇒ 00:31:04.790 Amber Lin: Sounds good.
181 00:31:04.790 ⇒ 00:31:16.829 Emily Giant: Yes, sorry, Zack. I’ve been like haggard trying to get this deployment out there. So my communication about like where we’re at has not been the best. I think my perception is a little off, too, because I’ve been like
182 00:31:16.930 ⇒ 00:31:22.410 Emily Giant: working so much on trying to get this fixed deployed. But.
183 00:31:22.410 ⇒ 00:31:22.750 Zack Gibbs: Right.
184 00:31:22.750 ⇒ 00:31:23.400 Emily Giant: Yeah.
185 00:31:23.980 ⇒ 00:31:24.679 Zack Gibbs: All good.
186 00:31:27.390 ⇒ 00:31:34.270 Amber Lin: Yeah, Zach, once I’m I’m done finishing up the groomings, and I’ll record a video on
187 00:31:34.640 ⇒ 00:31:42.650 Amber Lin: how we’re aligned for the next cycle. I do think, as people have said, we are pretty aligned, but I’ll make sure to get that to you before we kick off tomorrow.
188 00:31:43.280 ⇒ 00:31:43.860 Zack Gibbs: Okay.
189 00:31:44.100 ⇒ 00:32:09.019 Amber Lin: Yeah. One last thing I know, we’re running out of time. One last thing on the tickets. I do think it’s quite inevitable in this cycle, because we’re doing so much auditing and finding out things to add. But what we’ve seen is that as we continue to find out more requirements and figure out ways how we do things. Our our initial due dates and estimates
190 00:32:09.170 ⇒ 00:32:15.200 Amber Lin: are not aligned anymore. And then we’ve seen that the tickets
191 00:32:15.440 ⇒ 00:32:26.979 Amber Lin: get they grow bigger, and then the due dates are not. We’re not completing it on the due dates that we initially estimated, and then that causes us to
192 00:32:29.000 ⇒ 00:32:30.900 Amber Lin: having to push things back.
193 00:32:37.690 ⇒ 00:32:42.590 Amber Lin: So that’s something that I’ve noticed on my end that I would like to improve on
194 00:32:45.490 ⇒ 00:32:53.640 Emily Giant: I’ve definitely had to push that model ticket, and I’m wondering, like in the future. Some of these audit tasks are so massive.
195 00:32:54.680 ⇒ 00:32:57.580 Emily Giant: I feel like breaking them down would allow us.
196 00:32:57.580 ⇒ 00:32:57.990 Amber Lin: Hmm.
197 00:32:57.990 ⇒ 00:33:01.250 Emily Giant: Like, okay, I’m just doing the revenue specific models.
198 00:33:02.250 ⇒ 00:33:08.549 Emily Giant: And then pushing that on, instead of doing like the entire looker, dashboard audit, or the entire Dbt audit.
199 00:33:09.150 ⇒ 00:33:17.480 Emily Giant: In the time to get 800 models reviewed is hard. I could definitely break it down into chunks that would unblock the team.
200 00:33:17.480 ⇒ 00:33:34.040 Amber Lin: Yeah, I see. I totally understand. I think it was because I didn’t have a good enough knowledge of how they were. But I think that’s a great feedback. And moving forward. We’ve broken down the revenue model audits into the separate chunks, so that would be better.
201 00:33:34.040 ⇒ 00:33:34.740 Emily Giant: Yeah.
202 00:33:35.870 ⇒ 00:33:36.950 Emily Giant: Totally.
203 00:33:37.750 ⇒ 00:33:43.310 Amber Lin: Awesome any other points. Anyone want to bring up here in the retro?
204 00:33:55.120 ⇒ 00:34:12.689 Amber Lin: Okay. Sounds good so for next we’ll kick off the next sprint tomorrow, and I moved our stand up a little bit earlier, so that we can close off this sprint. But let me know if that times work, so it doesn’t work for you.
205 00:34:12.870 ⇒ 00:34:16.574 Emily Giant: I cannot join at that time. That’s our daily stand up for the.
206 00:34:16.860 ⇒ 00:34:23.490 Amber Lin: I see. Okay. So maybe if Emily can just Async update and then I’ll make it really short for our team as well.
207 00:34:24.080 ⇒ 00:34:25.160 Emily Giant: That sounds great.
208 00:34:25.340 ⇒ 00:34:26.860 Amber Lin: Okay. Thanks. Everyone.
209 00:34:27.409 ⇒ 00:34:28.499 Emily Giant: Bye. Thank you.
210 00:34:28.500 ⇒ 00:34:29.709 Caio Velasco: Thank you. Bye-bye.
211 00:34:29.710 ⇒ 00:34:30.670 Amber Lin: I.