Meeting Title: Delivery Excellence Weekly Date: 2025-08-25 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Samuel Roberts, Shreya Chowdhury, Rico Rejoso, Amber Lin, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:03:18.860 ⇒ 00:03:26.220 Amber Lin: Hello, … Hi. Welcome, Treya.
2 00:03:26.540 ⇒ 00:03:33.109 Amber Lin: This is our Monday meeting to talk about what’s going on for different projects and what we want to do.
3 00:03:34.640 ⇒ 00:03:37.340 Shreya Chowdhury: Hey, thanks, and nice to meet everyone.
4 00:03:38.090 ⇒ 00:03:38.580 Samuel Roberts: as well.
5 00:03:38.580 ⇒ 00:03:39.290 Amber Lin: That’s all.
6 00:03:43.940 ⇒ 00:03:44.709 Amber Lin: Oh, I’m thinking…
7 00:03:45.800 ⇒ 00:03:55.589 Amber Lin: Okay, let me go grab our meeting notes. I did not have time to prepare it because I was in non-stop meetings.
8 00:03:55.890 ⇒ 00:04:00.469 Amber Lin: But, delivery, meeting, running notes… okay.
9 00:04:02.700 ⇒ 00:04:03.820 Amber Lin: Cool.
10 00:04:03.820 ⇒ 00:04:13.210 Uttam Kumaran: And yeah, I wanted to include, sort of, some of the leads, from, you know, clients, so they’re just sort of aware. I think
11 00:04:13.210 ⇒ 00:04:27.080 Uttam Kumaran: kind of the point of this meeting is just, like, how are we going to level up our delivery overall? So I wanted to include, sort of, all kind of, like, functional leads from clients here, but I feel like this can continue to be, like, PM-driven for the most part.
12 00:04:28.580 ⇒ 00:04:32.649 Amber Lin: Okay, let me share this link.
13 00:04:33.810 ⇒ 00:04:38.330 Uttam Kumaran: And Shreya’s here as well. I don’t know if anyone saw, but, hey, Shreya.
14 00:04:39.380 ⇒ 00:04:40.270 Shreya Chowdhury: Hi.
15 00:04:42.370 ⇒ 00:04:50.699 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, you’re just gonna get thrown into a bunch of stuff, but don’t feel any pressure to give any answers, but just thought you’d get us a chance to see everything today.
16 00:04:51.020 ⇒ 00:04:53.550 Shreya Chowdhury: Cool, sounds good.
17 00:04:55.130 ⇒ 00:05:05.790 Amber Lin: So… I’ll share screen. So, this is an overview over clients… So, we have…
18 00:05:07.180 ⇒ 00:05:12.200 Amber Lin: I think it’s good that we can start from a health check.
19 00:05:14.060 ⇒ 00:05:19.110 Amber Lin: for these… So… I guess, Utsam…
20 00:05:19.430 ⇒ 00:05:26.669 Amber Lin: I want to check with you if these are up-to-date, so… Ellie is started, right?
21 00:05:27.180 ⇒ 00:05:28.270 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, that’s correct.
22 00:05:28.270 ⇒ 00:05:33.099 Amber Lin: Active. Is README still in Renew negotiations?
23 00:05:33.100 ⇒ 00:05:35.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, still in renew negotiations.
24 00:05:35.190 ⇒ 00:05:39.380 Amber Lin: Okay, so interlude is active.
25 00:05:39.380 ⇒ 00:05:43.750 Uttam Kumaran: is… Insomnia’s active….
26 00:05:43.940 ⇒ 00:05:46.270 Amber Lin: Bye!
27 00:05:47.080 ⇒ 00:05:57.380 Amber Lin: Conflict status… … I thought it was just, like, balancing pubs for… I mean, people are famous.
28 00:06:00.150 ⇒ 00:06:06.559 Uttam Kumaran: Glimpse, not yet. Knit, not yet. And the same thing, yeah, for those three.
29 00:06:06.560 ⇒ 00:06:08.739 Amber Lin: Spark plugs still in renewal?
30 00:06:09.100 ⇒ 00:06:11.489 Uttam Kumaran: It’s at… Sparkly is active now.
31 00:06:11.640 ⇒ 00:06:12.380 Amber Lin: Oh, okay.
32 00:06:12.830 ⇒ 00:06:24.329 Amber Lin: Awesome. So that brings us to these active clients. I don’t know, I think they’re sorted by MRR. Eden’s 30K, right?
33 00:06:25.720 ⇒ 00:06:26.960 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
34 00:06:27.650 ⇒ 00:06:34.510 Amber Lin: So that gives us a brief overview of how important each of these accounts are.
35 00:06:34.670 ⇒ 00:06:41.720 Amber Lin: … Default is hourly, so I’m looking as hourly.
36 00:06:42.370 ⇒ 00:06:45.649 Amber Lin: Interlude… I guess?
37 00:06:46.050 ⇒ 00:06:47.700 Amber Lin: They’re all hourly.
38 00:06:48.800 ⇒ 00:06:50.710 Uttam Kumaran: Interlude is monthly….
39 00:06:50.710 ⇒ 00:06:51.360 Amber Lin: Okay.
40 00:06:52.140 ⇒ 00:06:53.820 Uttam Kumaran: And….
41 00:06:53.820 ⇒ 00:06:54.540 Amber Lin: Smartphone.
42 00:06:54.540 ⇒ 00:06:58.049 Uttam Kumaran: parts is monthly, also. It’s monthly minimum.
43 00:06:58.460 ⇒ 00:07:01.140 Uttam Kumaran: So I think put… let’s just put monthly, it’s fine.
44 00:07:01.140 ⇒ 00:07:01.730 Amber Lin: Hmm.
45 00:07:03.010 ⇒ 00:07:06.010 Amber Lin: Okay, so how much is Interlude monthly?
46 00:07:06.620 ⇒ 00:07:11.119 Uttam Kumaran: 5… So this one, …
47 00:07:11.340 ⇒ 00:07:27.539 Uttam Kumaran: we’re… so for Interlude, we’re coming up on their last week, so I’ll be doing demos, and then potentially pitching them, ideally on, like, a rolling retainer. This isn’t… I guess we can… let me know when, if you want to go into updates, or if we want to just kind of walk through this DB first for now.
48 00:07:27.540 ⇒ 00:07:32.550 Amber Lin: Yeah, we can, I think we’re almost done here. I put it as upcoming renewal.
49 00:07:32.750 ⇒ 00:07:36.259 Amber Lin: So that we’re just aware of what we need to do there.
50 00:07:36.460 ⇒ 00:07:44.770 Uttam Kumaran: I think for Ellie, for Insomnia and Default, I think Ricoh may have the latest, but for default, it’s 250…
51 00:07:45.470 ⇒ 00:07:48.580 Uttam Kumaran: Insomnia? I mean, I forget.
52 00:07:48.870 ⇒ 00:07:49.800 Amber Lin: How about….
53 00:07:50.230 ⇒ 00:07:54.140 Uttam Kumaran: And spark plug, I also don’t know, maybe 200 or 250.
54 00:07:54.290 ⇒ 00:07:54.860 Uttam Kumaran: Not sure.
55 00:07:54.860 ⇒ 00:08:00.399 Amber Lin: I think Robert said either Remi was 150, or Sparkplug was $150.
56 00:08:01.010 ⇒ 00:08:05.199 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Rico has the latest, or this is… yeah, he can probably fill this out, but….
57 00:08:06.510 ⇒ 00:08:10.470 Amber Lin: Awesome, so I’m gonna say Rico here.
58 00:08:14.430 ⇒ 00:08:20.620 Uttam Kumaran: Hopefully another PM this week. It can enter their name on some of these, so… Yeah, that’ll be awesome.
59 00:08:20.910 ⇒ 00:08:21.340 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
60 00:08:22.130 ⇒ 00:08:23.810 Amber Lin: That’s Robert.
61 00:08:24.290 ⇒ 00:08:25.320 Amber Lin: Okay.
62 00:08:26.110 ⇒ 00:08:27.620 Amber Lin: And I think…
63 00:08:27.800 ⇒ 00:08:34.940 Amber Lin: Yeah, once we do the quick status updates, we can update the health status here. I think Ian is….
64 00:08:35.080 ⇒ 00:08:36.419 Uttam Kumaran: doing….
65 00:08:37.320 ⇒ 00:08:39.699 Amber Lin: Actually, I’ll just run through mine. I think Urban.
66 00:08:39.700 ⇒ 00:08:40.419 Uttam Kumaran: Sure, sure.
67 00:08:40.429 ⇒ 00:08:44.629 Amber Lin: We’re doing… Okay, ….
68 00:08:44.630 ⇒ 00:08:45.250 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
69 00:08:45.250 ⇒ 00:08:49.399 Amber Lin: heard from Don Lady, but Utram, you’re on the project, so I’m not worried about.
70 00:08:49.400 ⇒ 00:09:00.850 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so let me give you… yeah, let me give you my perspective. So, for everybody’s context, on this project before, it was Cayo and Demolade, and I was sort of
71 00:09:00.930 ⇒ 00:09:09.110 Uttam Kumaran: somewhat playing, like, solutions architect, but generally pretty hands-off. We ended up rolling Kayo off this project, and I’m more involved now.
72 00:09:09.160 ⇒ 00:09:27.239 Uttam Kumaran: I actually feel pretty good, although I don’t think the tickets show great progress. I have crushed through, like, a bunch of stuff that, like, a lot of just lingering issues that have caused a lot of pain for that team, like job failures I’ve fixed in the last, week or so.
73 00:09:27.240 ⇒ 00:09:33.149 Uttam Kumaran: I’m also using Cursor, like, super, super heavily, so my, like.
74 00:09:33.220 ⇒ 00:09:35.539 Uttam Kumaran: I’m, like, way more productive, probably, like.
75 00:09:36.070 ⇒ 00:09:48.359 Uttam Kumaran: two times more productive than before, so I actually feel really comfortable with the ticket load here. I just have to catch up a little bit. So the bigger thing here is I just want to give the client confidence that
76 00:09:48.930 ⇒ 00:10:08.390 Uttam Kumaran: the switch we made in people isn’t gonna impact, but kind of a couple ways I’m tackling this. One, I’m meeting with Emily tomorrow, and so I’ll continue to meet with her more regularly. Second, like, I originally thought that maybe we had to bring on another person, but I think I can also… I can handle this for a bit myself.
77 00:10:08.570 ⇒ 00:10:13.629 Uttam Kumaran: At least because it’s a lot of core data modeling work, especially for subscriptions.
78 00:10:14.190 ⇒ 00:10:16.130 Uttam Kumaran: And for existing models.
79 00:10:16.250 ⇒ 00:10:22.720 Uttam Kumaran: But yeah, like, I don’t know, I’ve just been using Cursor a lot, and it’s been helpful, so I don’t… I’m not as worried as I was
80 00:10:22.820 ⇒ 00:10:28.789 Uttam Kumaran: Before, I’m just catching up on a bunch of stuff that didn’t happen before, so…
81 00:10:28.970 ⇒ 00:10:32.830 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. I still feel… I still feel pretty good. Yeah, go ahead.
82 00:10:32.950 ⇒ 00:10:45.929 Amber Lin: Today instead, Emily asked if we can also… I think the CEO wants a very high-level update. I forgot her name. A very high-level update sent out after the…
83 00:10:45.950 ⇒ 00:10:56.780 Amber Lin: So, post-Mother’s Day, so what we have done since then, and just a high-level update, so, Zach can share with her, and then I guess she can share with, others in the company.
84 00:10:57.360 ⇒ 00:10:58.500 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
85 00:10:58.780 ⇒ 00:10:59.360 Amber Lin: Yeah.
86 00:11:07.860 ⇒ 00:11:15.930 Amber Lin: Oh, and Loop is… I don’t know if you saw the message, Loop is, available. Polytometer sent a message at 6 AM this morning.
87 00:11:16.780 ⇒ 00:11:17.689 Uttam Kumaran: I did see that.
88 00:11:18.050 ⇒ 00:11:27.139 Amber Lin: Awesome. So, I think Urban Stem’s doing decently well. I think Eden has come…
89 00:11:27.290 ⇒ 00:11:31.119 Amber Lin: to be a lot better now, I think.
90 00:11:31.570 ⇒ 00:11:37.470 Amber Lin: The team works together… a lot better, I think.
91 00:11:37.980 ⇒ 00:11:43.919 Amber Lin: … it has improved, since I’ve taken it on, and I think.
92 00:11:44.290 ⇒ 00:11:51.040 Amber Lin: … seems more proactive. Sometimes I still don’t see updates. When I was gone for the last…
93 00:11:51.140 ⇒ 00:11:56.929 Amber Lin: two days, Henry was really helpful, Wage was really helpful. They… they sent a…
94 00:11:57.170 ⇒ 00:12:14.349 Amber Lin: They filled out the weekly update template and sent it to the clients, and that’s awesome. Great. A few tickets from Vaschev and Demolade didn’t get updated, so I don’t… and I think they’re out today, so I don’t know updates on that end.
95 00:12:15.020 ⇒ 00:12:23.010 Amber Lin: Other than that, I think our weekly planning and the mid-week check-in with Oasia Prep Pros are going really well, so I…
96 00:12:23.320 ⇒ 00:12:29.320 Amber Lin: I wouldn’t say it needs help, it’s just ups and downs of… client work.
97 00:12:30.230 ⇒ 00:12:35.720 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think on there, I think still we’re having… It’s on the communication side.
98 00:12:35.960 ⇒ 00:12:42.769 Uttam Kumaran: So I think probably biggest thing for me is, like, I mean, one, I think…
99 00:12:43.010 ⇒ 00:12:45.940 Uttam Kumaran: For Vashdev, he’s only part-time with us.
100 00:12:46.000 ⇒ 00:12:47.010 Amber Lin: Side.
101 00:12:47.450 ⇒ 00:12:52.119 Uttam Kumaran: So I think I’ll… we’re… we’re gonna have to make a decision, like, if he’s not productive and…
102 00:12:53.900 ⇒ 00:13:02.469 Uttam Kumaran: if he’s not actually able to take on work and communicate effectively, then we might as well just hand some of that stuff off back to Awash until we get another person.
103 00:13:02.810 ⇒ 00:13:07.679 Uttam Kumaran: But I’ll kind of let… I would rather you both make a decision there.
104 00:13:07.870 ⇒ 00:13:12.259 Uttam Kumaran: like, there is sort of, like… I don’t wanna… I don’t think we should think about it as, like.
105 00:13:12.460 ⇒ 00:13:21.189 Uttam Kumaran: sunk costs, like, I think you should just consider, like, hey, can you get the work done on time, and is he able to communicate about it? I haven’t seen
106 00:13:21.710 ⇒ 00:13:27.729 Uttam Kumaran: great communication from him in the last few weeks, and I know it makes it really hard to do this work.
107 00:13:27.850 ⇒ 00:13:30.730 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s up to Awash to consider
108 00:13:30.920 ⇒ 00:13:40.229 Uttam Kumaran: whether it’s worth rolling him off, and I have… we have a couple other candidates in pipeline for… for DataEng, or keeping him on with the kind of communication
109 00:13:40.420 ⇒ 00:13:41.730 Uttam Kumaran: lapse and…
110 00:13:42.840 ⇒ 00:13:47.809 Uttam Kumaran: You guys deal with it for a bit more until I can get you, some more folks.
111 00:13:54.520 ⇒ 00:14:03.469 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, I’m saying the same in the… actually, I have pushed a lot on him to communicate more in the Slack, and …
112 00:14:04.200 ⇒ 00:14:08.529 Awaish Kumar: And, like, like, and then, like, finish the task.
113 00:14:08.830 ⇒ 00:14:17.519 Awaish Kumar: But, yeah, like, as I said, like, he spent a lot more time on AE work, and then he delayed DE work, so… Yeah.
114 00:14:17.770 ⇒ 00:14:21.649 Awaish Kumar: It’s kind of a… At the end, I’m doing the workshop, yeah.
115 00:14:21.780 ⇒ 00:14:24.839 Awaish Kumar: Not very… Productive for me.
116 00:14:28.020 ⇒ 00:14:30.219 Uttam Kumaran: What do you think, what do you think?
117 00:14:30.520 ⇒ 00:14:32.730 Uttam Kumaran: Like, what’s their gut instinct? Like…
118 00:14:33.310 ⇒ 00:14:37.259 Uttam Kumaran: Should I… should I send the message? Like, should we…
119 00:14:37.720 ⇒ 00:14:42.739 Uttam Kumaran: put some… put him on pause, or limit scope? Like, what do you think we should do at this point?
120 00:14:44.720 ⇒ 00:14:48.700 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, right now, we already have a limited scope, so we can… either we can…
121 00:14:49.360 ⇒ 00:14:51.990 Awaish Kumar: keep or pause, I think we can pause them.
122 00:14:52.260 ⇒ 00:14:55.020 Uttam Kumaran: Is there… is it… is there anything I can do? Like…
123 00:14:55.490 ⇒ 00:14:59.509 Uttam Kumaran: Should I just… should I take on one of those two things? If it’s, like, basic DE work, like….
124 00:15:00.550 ⇒ 00:15:14.780 Amber Lin: Yeah, I think, from my perspective, the work left is connecting the affiliate sources, which Oasis is looking at one of them today, and I think we have, like, two left, and then we need to get the product expense from those APIs. I think that’s what I.
125 00:15:14.780 ⇒ 00:15:19.279 Uttam Kumaran: What’s the connecting… what is connecting affiliate sources? Like, what does that mean?
126 00:15:19.280 ⇒ 00:15:20.280 Amber Lin: So….
127 00:15:20.280 ⇒ 00:15:21.770 Awaish Kumar: writing APIs.
128 00:15:22.240 ⇒ 00:15:26.019 Awaish Kumar: So we have some sort of platforms from where we have to get the
129 00:15:26.230 ⇒ 00:15:29.420 Awaish Kumar: spend data and put it in BigQuery.
130 00:15:30.100 ⇒ 00:15:32.079 Awaish Kumar: And has there been any progress on that?
131 00:15:32.080 ⇒ 00:15:32.710 Uttam Kumaran: bar?
132 00:15:34.480 ⇒ 00:15:38.340 Amber Lin: Was assigned last week on Wednesday, I didn’t see an update.
133 00:15:38.740 ⇒ 00:15:39.110 Awaish Kumar: I don’t know.
134 00:15:39.110 ⇒ 00:15:40.579 Amber Lin: No progress, I would say.
135 00:15:42.620 ⇒ 00:15:44.130 Uttam Kumaran: And I, like….
136 00:15:44.130 ⇒ 00:15:44.540 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
137 00:15:44.540 ⇒ 00:15:44.900 Uttam Kumaran: we should do.
138 00:15:44.900 ⇒ 00:15:46.539 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that… I, I escalated.
139 00:15:46.540 ⇒ 00:15:50.250 Uttam Kumaran: Easy to do it, you know? Or, like… Yeah, I’ve….
140 00:15:50.250 ⇒ 00:15:50.750 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, sometimes….
141 00:15:50.750 ⇒ 00:15:51.520 Uttam Kumaran: basic.
142 00:15:52.820 ⇒ 00:15:55.970 Awaish Kumar: I spent some time, like, on a grooming part.
143 00:15:56.260 ⇒ 00:15:59.550 Awaish Kumar: like, giving the context and all, I think….
144 00:15:59.580 ⇒ 00:16:02.540 Uttam Kumaran: I… in that time, I should have done myself.
145 00:16:03.640 ⇒ 00:16:06.400 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.
146 00:16:07.970 ⇒ 00:16:09.870 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, …
147 00:16:11.030 ⇒ 00:16:15.789 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, like, I think we have a… I think we probably have a couple options, like.
148 00:16:16.190 ⇒ 00:16:18.980 Uttam Kumaran: if you put me as plan B, like.
149 00:16:19.490 ⇒ 00:16:21.879 Uttam Kumaran: Casey can probably do this pretty easily.
150 00:16:22.450 ⇒ 00:16:22.930 Uttam Kumaran: massage.
151 00:16:22.930 ⇒ 00:16:23.300 Awaish Kumar: Catholic.
152 00:16:23.300 ⇒ 00:16:24.609 Uttam Kumaran: Also, probably do this.
153 00:16:25.290 ⇒ 00:16:27.729 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, Sam, if you have any experience, sort of, like, with
154 00:16:28.070 ⇒ 00:16:30.219 Uttam Kumaran: These would just be simple REST API.
155 00:16:30.880 ⇒ 00:16:33.029 Uttam Kumaran: Probably Python scripts to run, I think.
156 00:16:33.370 ⇒ 00:16:39.970 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I mean, I think pretty much anyone, me or those other two, could handle that, if it’s not a ton of, you know, I don’t want to take away too much.
157 00:16:39.970 ⇒ 00:16:45.080 Uttam Kumaran: Why don’t we just ask… yeah, why don’t we just see if we can hand this to the AI team and see if they can handle it?
158 00:16:45.560 ⇒ 00:16:46.200 Amber Lin: Okay.
159 00:16:46.980 ⇒ 00:16:53.380 Amber Lin: Okay. So, what are we going to send Vosha? We’re asking him to put his work on pause?
160 00:16:54.830 ⇒ 00:16:56.449 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I would just, …
161 00:16:56.620 ⇒ 00:17:04.369 Uttam Kumaran: list the tickets out in the Client Eden channel that need to get transitioned, and then, yeah, I would just ask them to pause, or to…
162 00:17:04.890 ⇒ 00:17:13.670 Uttam Kumaran: I can… I can, I can send him an email, but I’ll just say, can we just pause? Maybe over the next day or two, he can transition work over.
163 00:17:13.800 ⇒ 00:17:17.090 Uttam Kumaran: … to Sam or whoever on the AI team’s gonna take it.
164 00:17:17.099 ⇒ 00:17:17.709 Amber Lin: Okay.
165 00:17:18.300 ⇒ 00:17:21.050 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, but there’s nothing much, for, like.
166 00:17:21.410 ⇒ 00:17:24.070 Awaish Kumar: transitioning, I have all the contacts.
167 00:17:24.520 ⇒ 00:17:28.610 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool, then no transition, I’m just gonna say, kind of, pause. I may ask him…
168 00:17:28.950 ⇒ 00:17:35.429 Uttam Kumaran: So just help me out with a little bit, a couple things on the internal stuff, because that’s… there’s no, like, time constraint there, really.
169 00:17:36.130 ⇒ 00:17:37.630 Amber Lin: Okay, sounds good.
170 00:17:37.750 ⇒ 00:17:41.100 Amber Lin: So, a few actions here that we can do.
171 00:17:43.280 ⇒ 00:17:48.979 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, it seems like the AI team, everybody’s becoming data engineers, so it’s fine, like, I’m not happy with that.
172 00:17:51.230 ⇒ 00:17:52.020 Amber Lin: Yeah.
173 00:17:52.140 ⇒ 00:18:01.980 Amber Lin: That’s Eden, Urban Stems, and then on ABC, I talked to, … Oh, Yvette, earlier this morning.
174 00:18:02.270 ⇒ 00:18:03.580 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, great, okay.
175 00:18:03.740 ⇒ 00:18:09.250 Amber Lin: Yeah, so I think last Thursday, her agenda schedule was too full.
176 00:18:09.250 ⇒ 00:18:10.089 Uttam Kumaran: That’s what I thought, yeah.
177 00:18:10.090 ⇒ 00:18:15.720 Amber Lin: there’s the… database… Zip code database.
178 00:18:15.840 ⇒ 00:18:19.180 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, the zip code stuff, and then I… So, yeah, go ahead.
179 00:18:19.180 ⇒ 00:18:22.579 Amber Lin: The transcripts, the central doc.
180 00:18:22.970 ⇒ 00:18:26.059 Amber Lin: Which we’ll do this week.
181 00:18:26.320 ⇒ 00:18:30.090 Amber Lin: And then the other one is the AI…
182 00:18:30.380 ⇒ 00:18:34.550 Amber Lin: chat UI that I’m probably gonna demo Thursday.
183 00:18:36.100 ⇒ 00:18:40.220 Amber Lin: I think one… on the transcript side.
184 00:18:40.450 ⇒ 00:18:53.739 Amber Lin: Here’s another one that I think Casey asked Vaschev to help look at. We originally set it up with Daxter, I think it was a week ago, Casey asked Vashav… I should have followed up on this, but it’s….
185 00:18:53.740 ⇒ 00:18:59.490 Uttam Kumaran: It’s fine. I just think it’s clear that everything that’s assigned to Vashtav is just getting blocked, so… just move all that off.
186 00:18:59.490 ⇒ 00:19:00.350 Awaish Kumar: She’s stuck.
187 00:19:00.880 ⇒ 00:19:04.979 Awaish Kumar: I think that this script is done and deployed, right? So….
188 00:19:04.980 ⇒ 00:19:05.949 Amber Lin: Yeah, I think….
189 00:19:05.950 ⇒ 00:19:08.230 Uttam Kumaran: There was an issue with the data. There were some errors.
190 00:19:08.230 ⇒ 00:19:08.920 Awaish Kumar: I work.
191 00:19:08.920 ⇒ 00:19:09.360 Amber Lin: Okay.
192 00:19:09.360 ⇒ 00:19:12.129 Awaish Kumar: It just needs to be, I think, QA’d and see if….
193 00:19:12.130 ⇒ 00:19:12.780 Amber Lin: We’d have you.
194 00:19:14.490 ⇒ 00:19:15.120 Amber Lin: Yeah.
195 00:19:15.670 ⇒ 00:19:22.580 Amber Lin: … Okay, it’s failing. Okay, sounds good. So, who should I assign it to?
196 00:19:23.020 ⇒ 00:19:27.539 Uttam Kumaran: I would probably put… I would probably put me, because we don’t have another person, and then…
197 00:19:27.750 ⇒ 00:19:31.560 Uttam Kumaran: We interviewed someone today for a DE position, I may ask him to…
198 00:19:32.600 ⇒ 00:19:37.319 Uttam Kumaran: See how fast I can talk to him and see if maybe we can have him also come in this week.
199 00:19:38.270 ⇒ 00:19:45.030 Amber Lin: Okay, on the database side, did you review the design talk? Are we ready to set it up? Who’s gonna set it up?
200 00:19:46.840 ⇒ 00:19:50.979 Uttam Kumaran: … Let me just do that today, after this meeting.
201 00:19:51.180 ⇒ 00:19:51.830 Amber Lin: Okay.
202 00:19:53.280 ⇒ 00:19:57.450 Amber Lin: … Sounds good.
203 00:19:57.620 ⇒ 00:20:02.040 Amber Lin: … Alright.
204 00:20:02.750 ⇒ 00:20:08.320 Amber Lin: Actions… time to review, and we see…
205 00:20:12.130 ⇒ 00:20:17.520 Amber Lin: trash… Dangster Field.
206 00:20:19.260 ⇒ 00:20:38.399 Amber Lin: On the Insomnia Cookie side, I think Casey’s doing a great job on automations. I’m helping make a deck for Robert, within the gaps of my meetings, so I think we’re at the one-month check-in with them. We’ve pretty much done all the automations that we have access to.
207 00:20:39.130 ⇒ 00:20:42.169 Amber Lin: There’s still some access pending, which is not our fault.
208 00:20:42.450 ⇒ 00:20:52.249 Amber Lin: And I think with all that we have access to, the only thing left is, Uber Ads, which is in progress. So I think Isamara could be doing good.
209 00:20:53.860 ⇒ 00:20:54.470 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
210 00:20:56.840 ⇒ 00:21:00.370 Amber Lin: Alright, the other ones are…
211 00:21:01.340 ⇒ 00:21:05.309 Amber Lin: Not mine, so I’ll let you guys do the updates.
212 00:21:05.870 ⇒ 00:21:09.279 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, on pool parts, it’s going pretty smoothly, I think.
213 00:21:09.670 ⇒ 00:21:10.770 Amber Lin: ….
214 00:21:11.940 ⇒ 00:21:17.819 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, there hasn’t been much work. There’s been one or two things maybe last month, so we’re able to run
215 00:21:17.930 ⇒ 00:21:21.599 Uttam Kumaran: Because we have them on a 5K retainer, the margin is pretty good on this one.
216 00:21:21.750 ⇒ 00:21:24.700 Amber Lin: And I’m able to just kind of handle this as needed.
217 00:21:25.340 ⇒ 00:21:26.440 Uttam Kumaran: on…
218 00:21:26.920 ⇒ 00:21:33.469 Uttam Kumaran: interlude… yeah, we’re coming up on renewal for them, so… I think our work has been good. I think…
219 00:21:34.290 ⇒ 00:21:39.810 Uttam Kumaran: We continue to have this when we work with startups, is that their time is very limited to meet with us.
220 00:21:40.070 ⇒ 00:21:44.380 Uttam Kumaran: So now this is another case of… Of that, so…
221 00:21:44.850 ⇒ 00:21:53.110 Uttam Kumaran: we’re gonna see, I mean, I think, like, our work is great, I just think they haven’t spent enough time, like, using it, using the automation we built.
222 00:21:53.380 ⇒ 00:22:04.630 Uttam Kumaran: So, I’m gonna kind of give them… I’m gonna… I’m honestly gonna give them that feedback as well, as a client, like, hey, we’ve been giving these updates, but we haven’t had a chance to meet with you and share.
223 00:22:04.780 ⇒ 00:22:06.750 Uttam Kumaran: Ideally, my goal is to…
224 00:22:07.260 ⇒ 00:22:14.140 Uttam Kumaran: have them renew, or keep us on on an hourly basis. I’m gonna see what Matthew’s appetite for this is.
225 00:22:14.410 ⇒ 00:22:17.109 Uttam Kumaran: Either way is a really, really great case study.
226 00:22:17.520 ⇒ 00:22:21.569 Uttam Kumaran: But I’m gonna kinda see, so this week we’ll have a decision on this.
227 00:22:22.650 ⇒ 00:22:23.470 Amber Lin: …
228 00:22:23.970 ⇒ 00:22:29.540 Amber Lin: Should we line this case study up for the marketing team this cycle, or is this after the renewal?
229 00:22:31.780 ⇒ 00:22:36.980 Uttam Kumaran: … I’ll wait till after the renewal, because Hannah just got back today.
230 00:22:37.200 ⇒ 00:22:40.439 Uttam Kumaran: She has a ton of stuff they’re working on, so….
231 00:22:43.930 ⇒ 00:22:52.060 Amber Lin: Yeah, okay. … Alright, so for next meeting…
232 00:23:00.280 ⇒ 00:23:01.190 Amber Lin: Sure.
233 00:23:05.260 ⇒ 00:23:06.200 Amber Lin: Oops.
234 00:23:07.530 ⇒ 00:23:09.280 Amber Lin: What about default?
235 00:23:10.850 ⇒ 00:23:12.930 Uttam Kumaran: Deep ball is going well, …
236 00:23:13.470 ⇒ 00:23:23.079 Uttam Kumaran: Team was in person in New York last week, so Robert and Henry met with them. I’m chatting directly with,
237 00:23:30.290 ⇒ 00:23:43.329 Uttam Kumaran: I’m having, … I’m chatting directly with Caitlin and directly with Ryan on stuff, so I feel like it’s going well. I mean, we’re gonna come up on renewal with them next month, so I would like to move them to something more monthly.
238 00:23:43.610 ⇒ 00:23:44.760 Uttam Kumaran: …
239 00:23:44.970 ⇒ 00:23:59.379 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s gonna be my goal there. I mean, I just really want to keep up momentum on the product analytics side. There’s a lot of stuff there that we can share, so I’m just trying to push as fast as possible, so that’s a lot of, like, Henry.
240 00:23:59.700 ⇒ 00:24:05.280 Uttam Kumaran: And then I’m also trying to push Mustafa to get out some of our go-to-market automations.
241 00:24:05.680 ⇒ 00:24:10.169 Uttam Kumaran: I think… You know, one of the things overall is that sometimes we just get…
242 00:24:10.330 ⇒ 00:24:15.930 Uttam Kumaran: the feedback I gave to the AI team last week, and Sam was there, was just a…
243 00:24:16.290 ⇒ 00:24:26.419 Uttam Kumaran: just to push to ship things versus wait for, like, review by me or by others, like, I think our instincts on a lot of the work are pretty accurate, so…
244 00:24:26.760 ⇒ 00:24:39.920 Uttam Kumaran: I’ve just kind of gave them feedback that, for Mustafa especially, just to push things, not to wait for me, because sometimes it may take me two days to review things, I’m just very low on time. So I think that’s going to be a theme overall, is like.
245 00:24:40.320 ⇒ 00:24:44.290 Uttam Kumaran: Just to get things out quicker, ….
246 00:24:44.290 ⇒ 00:24:49.569 Amber Lin: Are these for these POC projects, or do they apply to our more mature clients?
247 00:24:50.760 ⇒ 00:24:56.030 Uttam Kumaran: Both. I mean, I mainly said I want you to push things out and communicate directly with the client.
248 00:24:56.350 ⇒ 00:25:00.440 Uttam Kumaran: Like, there’s no need to necessarily go through project management for everything.
249 00:25:02.240 ⇒ 00:25:09.119 Uttam Kumaran: you know, for the… for the hard stuff, I want project management involved, and for, like, the issues, but it’s… we’re not going to be able to scale towards
250 00:25:09.320 ⇒ 00:25:11.820 Uttam Kumaran: Being the gatekeepers for all tasks.
251 00:25:18.000 ⇒ 00:25:19.090 Amber Lin: …
252 00:25:19.550 ⇒ 00:25:26.120 Amber Lin: I guess, Rico, this is something that you and I can raise up for our retros for our different teams.
253 00:25:27.150 ⇒ 00:25:27.950 Amber Lin: ….
254 00:25:27.950 ⇒ 00:25:28.570 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
255 00:25:29.130 ⇒ 00:25:37.720 Amber Lin: Yeah, so I’ll say… Amber and Rico to bring up during Retro.
256 00:25:43.480 ⇒ 00:25:46.500 Amber Lin: And then… how’s Ellie?
257 00:25:46.690 ⇒ 00:25:48.070 Amber Lin: Let’s just start it, right.
258 00:25:51.380 ⇒ 00:25:56.939 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, it’s just started. Things are going well. … Yeah, Zoran is on that.
259 00:25:57.120 ⇒ 00:26:00.109 Uttam Kumaran: I think probably after…
260 00:26:00.440 ⇒ 00:26:11.449 Uttam Kumaran: this week and next week, I think Shreya will probably have a good understanding of, like, the scope there, so we can probably get a little bit more up… update, but Zoran is doing well. I think Robert has been…
261 00:26:11.840 ⇒ 00:26:19.530 Uttam Kumaran: pretty happy with what he’s seeing there, so I don’t know the specific implementation, but I just heard the feedback was positive.
262 00:26:19.530 ⇒ 00:26:25.079 Amber Lin: Sounds good. Okay, last 5 minutes. Who’s the account owner on Ellie? Robert?
263 00:26:25.380 ⇒ 00:26:26.419 Uttam Kumaran: Robert, yeah.
264 00:26:26.570 ⇒ 00:26:27.400 Amber Lin: Albert.
265 00:26:27.520 ⇒ 00:26:29.619 Amber Lin: Oh, there’s so many different robbers.
266 00:26:29.820 ⇒ 00:26:35.000 Amber Lin: And then… Tech lead is also Robert? Or Zoran?
267 00:26:35.000 ⇒ 00:26:41.070 Uttam Kumaran: … I would probably put Shreya on this, if she’s on the list.
268 00:26:41.400 ⇒ 00:26:43.459 Amber Lin: Okay, so I’ll put it here.
269 00:26:44.050 ⇒ 00:26:44.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
270 00:26:44.910 ⇒ 00:26:52.969 Amber Lin: Okay. Rico, do we have the PM ritual set up for Ellie? Do you need my help there? I can work with you today on that.
271 00:26:53.510 ⇒ 00:26:54.500 Rico Rejoso: Yes, please.
272 00:26:55.330 ⇒ 00:26:59.710 Amber Lin: Okay, … Alright, so…
273 00:26:59.860 ⇒ 00:27:06.010 Amber Lin: We… do we have a charter for Ellie that I can help look at? Is this also a POC?
274 00:27:09.120 ⇒ 00:27:15.450 Uttam Kumaran: There is a… There is not a charter, but there can be pretty easily.
275 00:27:15.450 ⇒ 00:27:16.220 Amber Lin: Okay.
276 00:27:16.520 ⇒ 00:27:20.320 Uttam Kumaran: We have Notion docs already, so I think Rico can probably go create that one.
277 00:27:20.480 ⇒ 00:27:23.340 Amber Lin: Gotcha. Great project.
278 00:27:25.700 ⇒ 00:27:33.200 Amber Lin: Cybert… … Is this client, will the rituals be similar to default?
279 00:27:33.450 ⇒ 00:27:34.279 Amber Lin: I think it’s a similar.
280 00:27:34.280 ⇒ 00:27:35.310 Uttam Kumaran: ….
281 00:27:35.310 ⇒ 00:27:35.830 Amber Lin: for daily.
282 00:27:35.830 ⇒ 00:27:43.850 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Probably… it’s probably, like, insomnia. I think this is where I kind of want… ….
283 00:27:43.850 ⇒ 00:27:46.480 Amber Lin: For Insomnia and for Ellie.
284 00:27:47.170 ⇒ 00:27:51.000 Uttam Kumaran: We… we kind of need to decide, like, what the rituals are.
285 00:27:51.370 ⇒ 00:28:04.559 Uttam Kumaran: Again, the reason why they haven’t been is because it’s Robert, so, like, for me and Robert, we have, like, no time, so it’s gonna be messed up, but now that we have a couple… we have some redundancy, and Treya’s gonna be looped in, I think there can be some…
286 00:28:04.900 ⇒ 00:28:12.159 Uttam Kumaran: some, daily, or at least, like, every other day sort of stand-up, so I think the PM rituals have to get decided for these two.
287 00:28:14.540 ⇒ 00:28:15.790 Amber Lin: Well, for….
288 00:28:15.790 ⇒ 00:28:18.479 Uttam Kumaran: So the one thing… yeah, I guess one question I also had….
289 00:28:18.480 ⇒ 00:28:20.150 Amber Lin: One question I also had is, like.
290 00:28:20.220 ⇒ 00:28:25.779 Uttam Kumaran: If there are… like, PJM rituals for, like, light and heavy.
291 00:28:25.860 ⇒ 00:28:30.769 Amber Lin: And then we can kind of, like, just decide which clients are getting light, which clients are getting heavy.
292 00:28:30.850 ⇒ 00:28:33.529 Uttam Kumaran: Like, default is light, interlude is light.
293 00:28:33.920 ⇒ 00:28:34.490 Amber Lin: Yeah.
294 00:28:34.620 ⇒ 00:28:35.870 Uttam Kumaran: Right. ….
295 00:28:36.520 ⇒ 00:28:37.340 Amber Lin: there’s…
296 00:28:38.350 ⇒ 00:28:48.540 Amber Lin: Yeah, I agree. And Sana doesn’t have grooming, because there’s not much grooming to do, but I combine it with my ABC ritual, so it does happen every day.
297 00:28:48.680 ⇒ 00:28:52.310 Amber Lin: … So for….
298 00:28:52.960 ⇒ 00:28:58.670 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I think, like, for example, if we get the new PM, it’s probably gonna happen in its own stand-up, right?
299 00:28:58.670 ⇒ 00:28:59.880 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, totally.
300 00:29:00.290 ⇒ 00:29:11.780 Uttam Kumaran: So, I would just assume, like, right now, I think we’re in a little bit of a compromised spot, because we’re lumping it together, but, like, what is the ideal light and heavy? You can decide. I don’t think we need a medium.
301 00:29:11.930 ⇒ 00:29:21.289 Uttam Kumaran: light is probably, like… I still think that even for the lightest clients, there should be a stand-up. Like, pool parts not having a stand-up is just a factor of us
302 00:29:21.450 ⇒ 00:29:28.269 Uttam Kumaran: not having enough PM support, but I do think that every client should at least have
303 00:29:29.160 ⇒ 00:29:33.619 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know if it’s two stand-ups a week, or I don’t know what it is.
304 00:29:33.800 ⇒ 00:29:36.740 Uttam Kumaran: And then we can just decide which clients have which.
305 00:29:37.480 ⇒ 00:29:44.349 Amber Lin: Yeah, for the light ones, currently they run on one-week sprints, because it’s easier, and then we have, like.
306 00:29:44.750 ⇒ 00:29:58.160 Amber Lin: Meeting at the start of the week to plan, like, 30 minutes, and then one or two stand-ups throughout the week, and then every two weeks, we have a grooming session to make sure that things are going well, and then weekly, depending on the client, we might have a demo session.
307 00:29:58.630 ⇒ 00:29:59.210 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
308 00:29:59.810 ⇒ 00:30:02.929 Amber Lin: Yeah, I’ll finalize that.
309 00:30:03.200 ⇒ 00:30:06.470 Amber Lin: Ellie is gonna be light or heavy?
310 00:30:07.920 ⇒ 00:30:11.560 Uttam Kumaran: Ellie is probably going to be…
311 00:30:11.690 ⇒ 00:30:15.590 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, actually, yeah. I will let… I’ll let that team figure it out.
312 00:30:15.590 ⇒ 00:30:18.280 Amber Lin: Okay, I’ll ask Robert.
313 00:30:19.590 ⇒ 00:30:22.160 Amber Lin: Sounds good. …
314 00:30:25.180 ⇒ 00:30:28.100 Amber Lin: On internal teams, how is that?
315 00:30:28.850 ⇒ 00:30:31.990 Amber Lin: Marketing, data, AI, sales.
316 00:30:31.990 ⇒ 00:30:35.109 Uttam Kumaran: I think marketing’s fine. I mean, Rico, what do you think?
317 00:30:36.530 ⇒ 00:30:38.979 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, on the marketing side.
318 00:30:39.360 ⇒ 00:30:48.690 Rico Rejoso: I just need to confirm a few things with Anna, since I wasn’t able to get any updates from Anna. Once I do confirm some of the things, we also arrange some of the tickets, and…
319 00:30:49.020 ⇒ 00:30:52.810 Rico Rejoso: We’re good. Content, everything’s updated.
320 00:30:53.030 ⇒ 00:30:54.600 Rico Rejoso: With Ryan and Ray.
321 00:30:58.500 ⇒ 00:31:00.170 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like we’re pretty good there.
322 00:31:01.120 ⇒ 00:31:07.150 Uttam Kumaran: On the AI team, I would honestly probably mark Sam on here instead of me.
323 00:31:07.360 ⇒ 00:31:10.669 Uttam Kumaran: Cause Sam’s running most of the stand-ups now.
324 00:31:10.840 ⇒ 00:31:15.540 Uttam Kumaran: … And then floating across clients. I don’t know, Sam, if you had any notes?
325 00:31:15.960 ⇒ 00:31:16.910 Uttam Kumaran: ….
326 00:31:18.230 ⇒ 00:31:25.410 Samuel Roberts: I don’t have any particular notes for this right now. I mean, we did a lot of client work last week, more than anything internal, but yeah.
327 00:31:25.410 ⇒ 00:31:26.000 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
328 00:31:26.460 ⇒ 00:31:30.920 Amber Lin: Oh, Yeah, sales from Robert.
329 00:31:31.060 ⇒ 00:31:33.529 Amber Lin: On a data platform.
330 00:31:33.650 ⇒ 00:31:38.609 Amber Lin: side, haven’t got a chance to meet today. I know, Utam, you were handling some of the.
331 00:31:38.610 ⇒ 00:31:43.229 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, like, how do you… what do you want to do with this? I mean, like, I can…
332 00:31:44.540 ⇒ 00:31:49.730 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like I’m the only… like, it’s kind of, like, all waiting on me, so maybe we just… maybe.
333 00:31:49.730 ⇒ 00:31:56.280 Amber Lin: I think Casey can do it. I think he’s capable. You already spelled out clear requirements.
334 00:31:58.070 ⇒ 00:31:58.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
335 00:31:59.300 ⇒ 00:32:12.140 Amber Lin: I think on the financial model side, because we’re lacking two last sources. One is a calendar, and one is the financial data of, monthly revenue and cost.
336 00:32:12.140 ⇒ 00:32:21.720 Uttam Kumaran: I guess, would it be better to run this, like, so you’re not talking about it every day, but instead, like, we just do, like, once-a-week data platform chat?
337 00:32:23.290 ⇒ 00:32:30.419 Amber Lin: We can, it’s just sometimes I… I’m scared people will forget. That’s my problem.
338 00:32:31.850 ⇒ 00:32:36.460 Uttam Kumaran: Because I just can’t meet… I just can’t chat about this every day.
339 00:32:36.460 ⇒ 00:32:37.220 Amber Lin: I know.
340 00:32:37.220 ⇒ 00:32:39.079 Uttam Kumaran: But… but, ….
341 00:32:39.830 ⇒ 00:32:43.190 Amber Lin: I can chat with Casey every day, like, you don’t have to be there.
342 00:32:43.190 ⇒ 00:32:48.710 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I mean, the next steps are kind of there, but if there’s anything blocked on me, let me know.
343 00:32:50.780 ⇒ 00:32:55.840 Uttam Kumaran: I have, like, a lot… I literally cleared out so much of my schedule this week to do development work, so….
344 00:32:55.840 ⇒ 00:32:59.040 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, totally. I guess on that….
345 00:32:59.040 ⇒ 00:33:03.079 Uttam Kumaran: Send some improvements. Yeah, but it’s the lowest priority thing, like…
346 00:33:03.310 ⇒ 00:33:06.990 Uttam Kumaran: Because he has client work, I’m sure that’s taking up more of his time.
347 00:33:07.360 ⇒ 00:33:08.130 Amber Lin: Yeah.
348 00:33:08.480 ⇒ 00:33:22.020 Amber Lin: So, I’ll just spell those tickets out, I’ll ask Casey on his workload, and then, I trust if he has time, he will do it, so I… I don’t worry about that. On the connecting the finance…
349 00:33:22.990 ⇒ 00:33:23.980 Amber Lin: And Cal….
350 00:33:23.980 ⇒ 00:33:32.500 Uttam Kumaran: So that… so, yeah, so finance will bring QuickBooks in through Polytomic. Calendar needs to be something that we have to, …
351 00:33:33.030 ⇒ 00:33:36.540 Uttam Kumaran: That I’m gonna… we have to write, like, a new data engineering pipeline for.
352 00:33:38.610 ⇒ 00:33:40.739 Amber Lin: A wish, who can do the.
353 00:33:40.740 ⇒ 00:33:48.590 Uttam Kumaran: It was… it was supposed to be… it’s gonna be whoever, it’s not gonna be Vashdev, it’s either gonna be me or whoever else I find. Yeah.
354 00:33:48.590 ⇒ 00:33:49.710 Awaish Kumar: No.
355 00:33:50.840 ⇒ 00:33:54.540 Awaish Kumar: Is calendar high priority? I….
356 00:33:54.540 ⇒ 00:33:57.620 Amber Lin: From my perspective, the finance one is taking higher pressure.
357 00:33:57.620 ⇒ 00:33:59.679 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, finance is the highest one.
358 00:34:01.660 ⇒ 00:34:07.179 Amber Lin: The QuickBooks stuff, does it have the cost, or does it only have revenue?
359 00:34:07.790 ⇒ 00:34:09.150 Uttam Kumaran: It’ll have both.
360 00:34:09.440 ⇒ 00:34:10.730 Amber Lin: Okay, awesome.
361 00:34:10.730 ⇒ 00:34:12.020 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’ll have both.
362 00:34:12.290 ⇒ 00:34:15.009 Uttam Kumaran: But this is probably the most complicated to model.
363 00:34:15.800 ⇒ 00:34:16.780 Amber Lin: Yeah, I see.
364 00:34:16.780 ⇒ 00:34:19.740 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, we’ll bring it in, and we’ll see what modeling we need to do.
365 00:34:20.960 ⇒ 00:34:22.950 Amber Lin: I think that’s everything.
366 00:34:23.989 ⇒ 00:34:26.060 Amber Lin: Any last comments?
367 00:34:31.099 ⇒ 00:34:34.649 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess, like, how do we feel about this meeting overall? ….
368 00:34:36.170 ⇒ 00:34:36.600 Amber Lin: ….
369 00:34:36.600 ⇒ 00:34:38.890 Uttam Kumaran: I’m curious to, like, what everyone thinks.
370 00:34:39.150 ⇒ 00:34:41.379 Amber Lin: Yeah, for me, it’s just good to get
371 00:34:41.530 ⇒ 00:34:49.289 Amber Lin: your notes on some things I’m waiting on, but other things, like, otherwise, this is… this is good to me. What about other folks?
372 00:34:51.290 ⇒ 00:34:55.340 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, it’s… it’s good to see the overview on all the clients.
373 00:34:55.780 ⇒ 00:34:57.540 Awaish Kumar: And how you’re doing?
374 00:34:59.420 ⇒ 00:35:04.600 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I was gonna say kind of the more thing, it’s just that high-level view is helpful to get a little perspective on where things lie.
375 00:35:06.930 ⇒ 00:35:13.580 Uttam Kumaran: What would be helpful, Awash, Sam, Rico, for you guys, like, outputs from this meeting, like.
376 00:35:14.060 ⇒ 00:35:15.940 Uttam Kumaran: you know, I… for me.
377 00:35:16.200 ⇒ 00:35:21.800 Uttam Kumaran: I think we’re gonna assign some… for every one of these meetings that happen on Monday, they’re gonna be tied to OKRs.
378 00:35:21.910 ⇒ 00:35:23.729 Uttam Kumaran: But I’m curious, like.
379 00:35:23.960 ⇒ 00:35:28.199 Uttam Kumaran: what’s helpful for you in your day-to-day as an output of this meeting? Is it just, like.
380 00:35:28.560 ⇒ 00:35:31.390 Uttam Kumaran: Is it just seeing, sort of, everything?
381 00:35:31.510 ⇒ 00:35:34.809 Uttam Kumaran: that we’re working on? Is it, like, having the accountability?
382 00:35:35.010 ⇒ 00:35:41.230 Uttam Kumaran: Is it, like, having just a venue where we can… talk to the PM team.
383 00:35:42.680 ⇒ 00:35:45.030 Uttam Kumaran: Like, curious what’s… what’s helpful.
384 00:35:47.580 ⇒ 00:35:48.500 Awaish Kumar: Hey, ….
385 00:35:53.750 ⇒ 00:35:54.959 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I think it’s probably the most helpful.
386 00:35:54.960 ⇒ 00:35:56.779 Awaish Kumar: For me, it’s like the communi….
387 00:35:57.530 ⇒ 00:35:58.170 Amber Lin: -Oh.
388 00:35:58.880 ⇒ 00:35:59.500 Samuel Roberts: Go ahead.
389 00:36:00.160 ⇒ 00:36:00.740 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
390 00:36:00.950 ⇒ 00:36:05.279 Awaish Kumar: So for me, it’s, like, having the communication between PM and the
391 00:36:05.640 ⇒ 00:36:13.789 Awaish Kumar: And the leads, and, like, talk about any blockers, and… And, and have accountability, like.
392 00:36:15.370 ⇒ 00:36:16.120 Uttam Kumaran: Great.
393 00:36:16.610 ⇒ 00:36:25.259 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, which will… which is going to, like, remove any kind of, block or miscommunication between PM and the client teams.
394 00:36:26.650 ⇒ 00:36:27.280 Uttam Kumaran: Great.
395 00:36:30.460 ⇒ 00:36:33.410 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, it was fairly similar. I mean, I think…
396 00:36:33.820 ⇒ 00:36:39.290 Samuel Roberts: just even, like, seeing you guys being able to talk about, like, Bosch Dev and how everything’s going, like, on a few different things overall, you know.
397 00:36:39.610 ⇒ 00:36:52.839 Samuel Roberts: as a place to, like, kind of have that chat between, like, the tech and PMs, for everything is good. I mean, there definitely can be things that come out of that. I don’t necessarily have specific OKRs I can think of for this, but….
398 00:36:55.550 ⇒ 00:36:56.120 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
399 00:36:57.240 ⇒ 00:37:00.220 Amber Lin: Yeah, and I think similar to Utomo, you brought up about
400 00:37:00.350 ⇒ 00:37:15.670 Amber Lin: how teammates can communicate directly to clients. I think that those type of retro items or overall improvements of ways of work is also an output of this type of meetings, because we have all the leads here, and then you guys see what’s going on and what’s not going on.
401 00:37:17.430 ⇒ 00:37:20.070 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I want there to be just a great line between
402 00:37:20.510 ⇒ 00:37:23.730 Uttam Kumaran: the leads and the PM team, I’m gonna float
403 00:37:24.020 ⇒ 00:37:31.209 Uttam Kumaran: around, like, maximum, but as you can tell, there’s already clients where I’m not… I don’t know exactly, so…
404 00:37:31.320 ⇒ 00:37:46.789 Uttam Kumaran: It’ll be… it’ll be… it’ll be interesting to see how this meeting evolves. I also think, like, as an engineering squad, you know, we have our engineering leads later. That meeting is where I… I think I want to talk about, sort of, like, engineering excellence, talk about, like, the quality of the work.
405 00:37:46.850 ⇒ 00:37:52.119 Uttam Kumaran: ways we can level up, ways we can use AI. We could have a much more technical conversation there.
406 00:37:52.230 ⇒ 00:37:55.660 Uttam Kumaran: I think here is, like, how do we set up the PM team for success?
407 00:37:55.830 ⇒ 00:38:03.539 Uttam Kumaran: what do they need to continue to deliver? Because when I do think about delivery, I think about project management probably as, like, the first.
408 00:38:03.930 ⇒ 00:38:05.560 Awaish Kumar: Like, owner.
409 00:38:05.560 ⇒ 00:38:11.300 Uttam Kumaran: And then I think about our engineering team supplying the solutions, …
410 00:38:12.110 ⇒ 00:38:20.329 Uttam Kumaran: So I do think that this meeting can continue to evolve, but yeah, I do like this. I think we spent a little bit of time in the beginning just, like, getting this DB up to date. Next time.
411 00:38:20.550 ⇒ 00:38:25.440 Uttam Kumaran: You know, hopefully we can spend the first 5-10 minutes setting updates, and then
412 00:38:25.630 ⇒ 00:38:29.889 Uttam Kumaran: Have a… have a good, healthy discussion about things that need to change, so….
413 00:38:30.590 ⇒ 00:38:40.219 Amber Lin: Okay. I would also like to think about what type… what OKRs would this be tied to? Doesn’t have to be today, just a thought that we can start on.
414 00:38:41.500 ⇒ 00:38:49.789 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, perfect. Yeah, that’s on… that’s completely on me, so I can… I can make sure that this meeting has OKRs, and we start off the meeting talking about them.
415 00:38:50.010 ⇒ 00:38:53.620 Uttam Kumaran: And any, any changes to them, so, perfect.
416 00:38:54.190 ⇒ 00:38:57.999 Amber Lin: … Orange related to that.
417 00:38:58.870 ⇒ 00:39:02.080 Amber Lin: Okay.
418 00:39:04.200 ⇒ 00:39:08.469 Amber Lin: … Also, update…
419 00:39:12.640 ⇒ 00:39:15.759 Amber Lin: Alright, anything else? That’s all from me.
420 00:39:16.560 ⇒ 00:39:24.859 Samuel Roberts: The only thing I’d add is that I was actually looking for this document before the meeting, just to, like, get ready, and I wasn’t sure where it was. Could you possibly just add it to the, like, calendar?
421 00:39:24.860 ⇒ 00:39:27.040 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, totally, that’s a good point.
422 00:39:27.040 ⇒ 00:39:31.989 Samuel Roberts: Thank you, because now that I know where it is, I’ll probably be able to find it better, but next time, I might not realize, so….
423 00:39:31.990 ⇒ 00:39:32.390 Amber Lin: well.
424 00:39:32.390 ⇒ 00:39:37.500 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we can also create a channel. I don’t… we have a delivery strategy channel, Amber.
425 00:39:37.720 ⇒ 00:39:38.140 Amber Lin: Yeah.
426 00:39:38.140 ⇒ 00:39:41.590 Uttam Kumaran: Like… just use that, I can…
427 00:39:42.360 ⇒ 00:39:44.790 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, then we could just use that for this.
428 00:39:46.080 ⇒ 00:39:47.260 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Yeah.
429 00:39:47.260 ⇒ 00:39:47.800 Samuel Roberts: Cool.
430 00:39:48.780 ⇒ 00:39:49.350 Samuel Roberts: Thanks.
431 00:39:49.790 ⇒ 00:39:50.930 Amber Lin: Awesome.
432 00:39:50.930 ⇒ 00:39:51.590 Uttam Kumaran: Good point.
433 00:39:53.490 ⇒ 00:39:55.129 Amber Lin: Alright, thanks everyone!
434 00:39:55.830 ⇒ 00:39:57.889 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Thank you guys, appreciate it.
435 00:39:58.000 ⇒ 00:39:58.590 Samuel Roberts: Thanks, everyone.
436 00:39:59.050 ⇒ 00:40:00.000 Rico Rejoso: Bye!