Meeting Title: US x BF | Sprint Retro Date: 2025-09-29 Meeting participants: Amber Lin, Demilade Agboola, Uttam Kumaran


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1 00:00:06.290 00:00:07.320 Amber Lin: Hello.

2 00:00:09.290 00:00:16.390 Amber Lin: Just checking here on tickets before we get started, I know these…

3 00:00:16.630 00:00:22.790 Amber Lin: were ad hocs, and this was also from last week. Were these? Were these done?

4 00:00:23.960 00:00:26.509 Amber Lin: Especially the two ad hocs right here.

5 00:00:26.960 00:00:36.389 Demilade Agboola: So the 368, I probably knew Utam’s in better position, because they already gave in some of the briefs to Utam.

6 00:00:37.540 00:00:45.590 Demilade Agboola: Sam’s gonna handle that instead. But 362… basically is…

7 00:00:46.250 00:00:51.730 Demilade Agboola: I’ll say it’s sort of done, because I responded to her, and she hasn’t responded.

8 00:00:52.190 00:00:55.859 Demilade Agboola: Because I was trying to get her the appropriate numbers.

9 00:00:56.270 00:00:59.419 Demilade Agboola: But she hasn’t responded as well, so I don’t know.

10 00:01:00.070 00:01:03.130 Amber Lin: Okay, and then for suborders?

11 00:01:03.810 00:01:11.680 Demilade Agboola: So that, because of all the was going on last week, was pushed back. Gotcha. Okay. I’ll finish that today.

12 00:01:11.830 00:01:13.220 Amber Lin: Gotcha, okay.

13 00:01:22.510 00:01:28.030 Amber Lin: And then suborders… Okay, duh.

14 00:01:30.210 00:01:38.130 Amber Lin: Subscription Revenue Summary, is that blocked, or is that something you can… 2…

15 00:01:39.340 00:01:48.030 Demilade Agboola: So I’m not exactly sure what the subscription revenue summary is supposed to represent, but right now, we still block everything. Subscription is still blocked by…

16 00:01:49.180 00:01:49.790 Amber Lin: Okay.

17 00:01:53.940 00:01:54.500 Amber Lin: Alright.

18 00:01:55.170 00:01:59.720 Amber Lin: So, we have… And then I might pull something in…

19 00:02:05.390 00:02:08.740 Amber Lin: Anything here on Udemy’s plate you can help with?

20 00:02:09.949 00:02:12.529 Amber Lin: Let’s ridiculously, we have suborders.

21 00:02:13.380 00:02:17.550 Amber Lin: That’s it, because we can’t run the validation session yet.

22 00:02:20.190 00:02:21.230 Demilade Agboola: Did I…

23 00:02:21.230 00:02:22.400 Uttam Kumaran: I end up getting booked.

24 00:02:24.080 00:02:36.779 Amber Lin: No, I need to book with Perry first. None of our models are… or numbers are ready for the final review, right? Because Perry hasn’t responded to me, I’ve pinged her twice, and I’ve also pinged PK.

25 00:02:39.240 00:02:44.139 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, and also, I… part of the call, I wondered how the parry was…

26 00:02:44.550 00:02:47.780 Demilade Agboola: So we can have conversations about the…

27 00:02:48.120 00:02:52.140 Demilade Agboola: Revenue calculations and how they calculate these things.

28 00:02:52.460 00:03:00.370 Demilade Agboola: So at least we are on the same page when I’m taking the first stab at the revenue models, revenue summary models.

29 00:03:00.950 00:03:06.860 Demilade Agboola: But, yeah, that’s another, like, reason why…

30 00:03:07.110 00:03:10.620 Demilade Agboola: That’s why the 260 and 261 are blocked.

31 00:03:14.730 00:03:17.780 Amber Lin: Yeah. I’m…

32 00:03:18.030 00:03:34.239 Amber Lin: You know, I’m gonna ping Zach and Dean, and then I’ll grab Dean if Perry doesn’t respond. PK also… PK responded, he said he can book for later this week, but it… it doesn’t help unblock, but it helps get him involved.

33 00:03:34.390 00:03:38.460 Amber Lin: So, I will… I will respond to him in a bit.

34 00:03:38.840 00:03:45.119 Amber Lin: Udram, do you need to be there when we meet with PK, or is it just me and

35 00:03:45.620 00:03:46.000 Amber Lin: be enough.

36 00:03:46.000 00:03:46.899 Uttam Kumaran: I can be there.

37 00:03:46.900 00:03:48.959 Amber Lin: Okay, okay, I’ll see if you have time.

38 00:03:50.980 00:03:58.359 Amber Lin: So, realistically, I think, Demola, you can help with some of Utam’s tasks if Perry doesn’t help us review.

39 00:03:59.290 00:04:03.820 Amber Lin: But let’s see… I don’t know how much we can move forward without the review.

40 00:04:03.820 00:04:07.170 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I’m gonna hand some of these off to Awash this week.

41 00:04:07.170 00:04:07.880 Amber Lin: Yeah.

42 00:04:08.400 00:04:08.720 Uttam Kumaran: Which…

43 00:04:08.720 00:04:10.980 Amber Lin: Which ones will you be handing off first?

44 00:04:10.980 00:04:14.340 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna hand him the, the revenue work.

45 00:04:14.810 00:04:18.749 Uttam Kumaran: So, dbt test for fact transactions…

46 00:04:19.430 00:04:20.919 Amber Lin: Subscriptions?

47 00:04:20.920 00:04:24.689 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna still handle subscriptions today, should that should be out.

48 00:04:24.690 00:04:25.300 Amber Lin: Okay.

49 00:04:25.800 00:04:30.069 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, and then, like, there’s, like, this error I’m working on.

50 00:04:30.300 00:04:34.579 Uttam Kumaran: Like, first, some of the… something for Michael that I have to fix today.

51 00:04:34.580 00:04:38.700 Amber Lin: So is that the… These…

52 00:04:38.700 00:04:40.910 Demilade Agboola: I was going to ask a 3-2-5.

53 00:04:43.230 00:04:44.149 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, what is that one?

54 00:04:44.280 00:04:49.220 Amber Lin: This is from Wallow for a long time ago, I think we can cancel this.

55 00:04:49.980 00:04:52.690 Uttam Kumaran: Can you ask Emily? Emily created this…

56 00:04:53.240 00:04:55.609 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I would ask her if we’re canceling.

57 00:04:55.800 00:04:57.799 Amber Lin: Okay, I’m gonna move this to her.

58 00:04:58.190 00:05:01.700 Amber Lin: Subscriptions and field indicated.

59 00:05:04.380 00:05:07.360 Amber Lin: We don’t have subscriptions, though.

60 00:05:08.490 00:05:09.230 Amber Lin: Okay.

61 00:05:19.050 00:05:21.240 Amber Lin: She will be back next week.

62 00:05:21.660 00:05:23.529 Amber Lin: So that will help us.

63 00:05:24.190 00:05:27.699 Amber Lin: Subscriptions that you’re focusing on.

64 00:05:28.730 00:05:29.170 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

65 00:05:29.170 00:05:34.789 Amber Lin: I need the North Beam thread, is there someone that can help you with that?

66 00:05:36.010 00:05:37.870 Uttam Kumaran: It’s just me.

67 00:05:38.160 00:05:38.970 Amber Lin: Okay.

68 00:05:39.360 00:05:41.350 Demilade Agboola: So, is there a way you could loop me in this?

69 00:05:42.240 00:05:47.589 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, like, I can… I mean, I feel like everybody here should be on this email, right, with…

70 00:05:48.000 00:05:48.860 Uttam Kumaran: North Beam.

71 00:05:48.860 00:06:00.409 Demilade Agboola: Because, even when Amber asked for, like, a review of stuff, like, it looked good, but, like, I don’t have all the full context, so I can’t really, like, give a proper feedback.

72 00:06:01.110 00:06:05.099 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so let me… here, let me just send you guys both this thread right now, and then… Okay.

73 00:06:05.380 00:06:07.810 Uttam Kumaran: That’s just, we can even talk about it in this meeting.

74 00:06:10.320 00:06:17.500 Uttam Kumaran: So I just emailed it to you. Basically, we’re trying to get order attribution data from Northbeam.

75 00:06:18.080 00:06:24.560 Uttam Kumaran: And what’s going on is… There’s no… apparently, there’s no way for us to get

76 00:06:25.180 00:06:28.549 Uttam Kumaran: the order attribution data directly from North Beam.

77 00:06:28.710 00:06:33.969 Uttam Kumaran: Because… Apparently, it’s, like, not using the Northbeams API or something.

78 00:06:34.170 00:06:42.029 Uttam Kumaran: So, my… my sort of question here is, is there a way for us to get this from the Shopify data?

79 00:06:42.360 00:06:50.550 Uttam Kumaran: like, in Shopify, Is there… in the Shopify data, is there a marketing attribution column somewhere?

80 00:06:50.700 00:06:58.550 Uttam Kumaran: So that would be my first suggestion. Second suggestion, if this can’t be done through the API, can it be done through a manual export?

81 00:07:01.400 00:07:03.010 Demilade Agboola: Okay. R.

82 00:07:03.330 00:07:06.390 Demilade Agboola: So, this sounds like a spike, basically.

83 00:07:07.610 00:07:20.070 Amber Lin: When we’re forwarding this to Zach and Kristen, are we asking them to try and resolve the API issue? Are we… or are we trying to get them to agree? Zach and Kristen are… Zach and Kristen are just…

84 00:07:20.490 00:07:23.129 Uttam Kumaran: Business users, so there’s nothing they can do.

85 00:07:23.130 00:07:23.670 Amber Lin: Okay.

86 00:07:23.670 00:07:24.590 Uttam Kumaran: Technically.

87 00:07:24.780 00:07:26.830 Uttam Kumaran: So we have to propose a solution.

88 00:07:27.080 00:07:28.170 Amber Lin: Gotcha, okay.

89 00:07:29.660 00:07:32.549 Uttam Kumaran: So, we have to answer the first one.

90 00:07:32.760 00:07:33.270 Demilade Agboola: Yeah.

91 00:07:33.270 00:07:34.900 Uttam Kumaran: We have to answer the second one.

92 00:07:35.090 00:07:38.459 Demilade Agboola: So can you… can you assign a spike to me so I can look at this?

93 00:07:43.080 00:07:45.290 Amber Lin: Let me…

94 00:08:08.200 00:08:09.090 Amber Lin: Okay.

95 00:08:09.360 00:08:13.220 Amber Lin: Let’s do this… Oh.

96 00:08:14.030 00:08:22.180 Amber Lin: I would say this is higher priority than suborders. I would like this to be done today so we can send it to Zach.

97 00:08:22.440 00:08:23.160 Amber Lin: Do you agree?

98 00:08:23.160 00:08:23.520 Demilade Agboola: dear.

99 00:08:23.880 00:08:24.390 Amber Lin: Okay.

100 00:08:24.390 00:08:25.020 Demilade Agboola: Yeah.

101 00:08:25.360 00:08:26.380 Amber Lin: Okay, so…

102 00:08:26.380 00:08:33.109 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so… Demolati, there’s… in Shopify, in the tables, there should be something around order attribution.

103 00:08:33.299 00:08:34.539 Uttam Kumaran: You can check.

104 00:08:35.220 00:08:45.620 Uttam Kumaran: I just don’t know what the mechanism is, like, I don’t know if Northbeam is writing to that table, or Northbeam is just, like, visualizing the data from that table.

105 00:08:45.740 00:08:50.129 Uttam Kumaran: But the common use case for Northbeam is to, like, put pixels everywhere and then track

106 00:08:50.750 00:08:54.079 Uttam Kumaran: where did this order gets attributed to, you know, so…

107 00:08:54.590 00:09:00.839 Uttam Kumaran: We just need to basically tell them that, or again, like, you can try to log into Northbeam and get a manual export out.

108 00:09:03.470 00:09:06.909 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, so, yeah, basically trying to see if there’s a way to, like.

109 00:09:08.520 00:09:14.030 Demilade Agboola: put pieces together from either Shopify or through a minor export. Well, we’ll see, we’ll see.

110 00:09:15.790 00:09:19.739 Demilade Agboola: Also, based on your task, are there any other things that we can take off?

111 00:09:20.770 00:09:31.039 Amber Lin: I was looking at this, this is from our meeting with Zach to share the pricing options for the… for the observability tools, and I was thinking that a Wish could help with this.

112 00:09:31.540 00:09:36.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, this is also one we should turn into a, like a marketing asset.

113 00:09:37.550 00:09:40.569 Uttam Kumaran: Which is, like, a comparison document between these.

114 00:09:40.690 00:09:44.080 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Awish can definitely take this.

115 00:09:49.400 00:09:52.450 Amber Lin: That’s blocked.

116 00:09:52.820 00:09:57.870 Amber Lin: Subscriptions… so these two were ad hocs from last week. Were they.

117 00:09:57.870 00:09:58.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so…

118 00:09:58.550 00:09:59.749 Amber Lin: This one’s quite old.

119 00:10:00.920 00:10:03.610 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, this one I don’t think has been done yet.

120 00:10:04.110 00:10:05.160 Uttam Kumaran: But.

121 00:10:05.800 00:10:08.929 Demilade Agboola: You can think this to me, like, you can send this to me, it says…

122 00:10:08.930 00:10:09.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

123 00:10:11.020 00:10:11.650 Amber Lin: Okay.

124 00:10:13.050 00:10:15.519 Amber Lin: So, the two ad hocs here.

125 00:10:21.150 00:10:23.469 Amber Lin: Is this the same item from Michael?

126 00:10:25.340 00:10:28.269 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, this one I’m working on, this one I’ll just take.

127 00:10:28.550 00:10:29.220 Amber Lin: Okay.

128 00:10:29.400 00:10:37.320 Amber Lin: And then, from Tazik… I believe this is the original one, like this… assume this is…

129 00:10:37.960 00:10:40.130 Amber Lin: Closed, or are you still working on it?

130 00:10:40.130 00:10:42.690 Uttam Kumaran: But I think there’s only one issue, both of these are the same issue.

131 00:10:42.690 00:10:47.159 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, I think the other one was an add-on from this, so I’ll just close this.

132 00:10:47.160 00:10:47.800 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

133 00:10:48.070 00:10:50.650 Amber Lin: Yeah, okay, preview cycle…

134 00:10:50.650 00:10:57.690 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’ll, I’ll just basically work… I’m gonna be working on this the rest of the day.

135 00:10:58.730 00:11:13.619 Amber Lin: And then once we get Perry to review, I might pull these snapshots and summary tables in. Since Abuisha’s joining, I will assign these that I pushed out for your capacity. I’ll assign them to him.

136 00:11:16.000 00:11:18.139 Amber Lin: And then… let’s see…

137 00:11:24.910 00:11:28.019 Amber Lin: Is there still any models? Oh, I see.

138 00:11:28.400 00:11:31.999 Amber Lin: Has this been done yet to unschedule these models?

139 00:11:35.410 00:11:38.240 Uttam Kumaran: No, this is a… this is just a low priority.

140 00:11:38.240 00:11:38.970 Amber Lin: Okay.

141 00:11:38.970 00:11:41.420 Uttam Kumaran: So, like, this one, Awash can do.

142 00:11:42.140 00:11:45.980 Demilade Agboola: But also, I’m currently working on jobs, so if that’s something…

143 00:11:46.510 00:11:48.539 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, if you want to take this, that’s fine too.

144 00:11:48.770 00:11:49.610 Demilade Agboola: That’s fine.

145 00:11:54.770 00:12:05.389 Amber Lin: Oms refunds… DIM products, adding some categories, and the two that we assigned.

146 00:12:06.400 00:12:07.040 Amber Lin: Okay.

147 00:12:07.180 00:12:10.880 Amber Lin: Check just… checking on what’s left, and for everything to work.

148 00:12:11.370 00:12:25.510 Amber Lin: I think mostly after that’s done, and subscription’s done, we can move on to the summary tables. And then Emily’s back next week, so we can start the Looker stuff, so we should be back on track. I booked a sync tomorrow.

149 00:12:25.860 00:12:27.870 Amber Lin: with a wish, I think.

150 00:12:28.440 00:12:30.509 Amber Lin: A similar time?

151 00:12:30.700 00:12:40.769 Amber Lin: From at now, so that would be, yeah, same time as today, so 11, or you’re 1 in PM CST, 1 hour with a wish.

152 00:12:41.370 00:12:43.380 Amber Lin: Alright.

153 00:12:43.660 00:12:49.609 Amber Lin: That should be all. I’m gonna add some due dates, and then confirm estimates.

154 00:12:52.160 00:12:53.050 Demilade Agboola: Sounds great.

155 00:12:53.050 00:12:58.369 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect. Yeah, Demolat, I assume you know, like, we’re gonna start to loop in a ways on some stuff here.

156 00:12:58.550 00:13:02.040 Uttam Kumaran: And then, I think overall, I’m gonna… I think we’re gonna…

157 00:13:02.310 00:13:09.499 Uttam Kumaran: see if I have to go on the hunt, I think, for one more AIE to sort of join our group.

158 00:13:09.770 00:13:18.619 Uttam Kumaran: Finally, which is gonna be great, so I’m gonna start to look through that, but I think for now, I think we’re pretty good across clients, so you let me know.

159 00:13:19.300 00:13:25.580 Demilade Agboola: Alright, sounds good. Also, just a quick question. On the incoming projects, just slightly, are there any, like, AA…

160 00:13:26.210 00:13:27.120 Demilade Agboola: Proscope.

161 00:13:27.120 00:13:27.910 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.

162 00:13:27.910 00:13:28.800 Demilade Agboola: So, okay.

163 00:13:28.970 00:13:33.399 Uttam Kumaran: Not all of them are. Some are AI, some are data.

164 00:13:33.600 00:13:36.150 Uttam Kumaran: The only problem is, like, I can’t…

165 00:13:36.800 00:13:40.119 Uttam Kumaran: The trouble we’re in right now is, like, I can’t…

166 00:13:40.290 00:13:43.410 Uttam Kumaran: We can’t do allocations for those until they sign.

167 00:13:44.160 00:13:44.979 Demilade Agboola: Fair, fair enough.

168 00:13:44.980 00:13:51.690 Uttam Kumaran: So until… until they’re signed, I then… Justin and Amber sort of start to work on who’s going to be allocated.

169 00:13:53.630 00:13:59.159 Uttam Kumaran: So, I’m just trying to not jump the gun and, like, go bring on more people, or, like, start to…

170 00:13:59.500 00:14:03.099 Uttam Kumaran: look at that until those are, like, completely signed. Once they’re signed.

171 00:14:03.730 00:14:06.160 Uttam Kumaran: We have a little bit of time to figure that out.

172 00:14:07.340 00:14:10.840 Uttam Kumaran: I have one good candidate for DE,

173 00:14:11.110 00:14:13.270 Uttam Kumaran: And then I need to,

174 00:14:14.500 00:14:20.280 Uttam Kumaran: no one really stands out for AE work, actually, so…

175 00:14:20.500 00:14:22.480 Uttam Kumaran: I know we talked to,

176 00:14:23.420 00:14:30.430 Uttam Kumaran: forgot his name from DataCulture. I know we… or who was at Data Culture? I know we talked to him a bit, but I know he was busy, and so I’m trying to think about

177 00:14:30.580 00:14:32.730 Uttam Kumaran: If there’s anyone else in my network to consider.

178 00:14:33.450 00:14:35.760 Demilade Agboola: Okay. Yeah, fair enough, fair enough.

179 00:14:36.040 00:14:40.809 Demilade Agboola: I was just, I was just curious, cause, just wanted to know what the future looked like.

180 00:14:41.680 00:14:49.189 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we do have… I mean, I think we do have, for example, we have Insomnia and Ellie, like, some of those will become…

181 00:14:50.030 00:14:52.019 Uttam Kumaran: data modeling, soon.

182 00:14:52.310 00:14:54.140 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe by the next month or two.

183 00:14:54.440 00:14:58.150 Uttam Kumaran: So, those ones, when they expand, will have a bit more.

184 00:15:00.280 00:15:06.139 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, I think… I think one thing to consider is, like, for your work across Eden and for this, like.

185 00:15:06.330 00:15:10.510 Uttam Kumaran: Start thinking about if there’s anything that you think is, like, more junior, or, like…

186 00:15:11.010 00:15:12.629 Uttam Kumaran: hey, I think I can…

187 00:15:12.900 00:15:18.570 Uttam Kumaran: pass this off to someone more junior, we can start to hand those off, and that way I can kind of keep you more in, like.

188 00:15:19.050 00:15:22.500 Uttam Kumaran: the stuff that’s net new, but I don’t know, something we can talk about this week.

189 00:15:22.990 00:15:25.230 Demilade Agboola: Okay, sounds good. Look forward to that.

190 00:15:25.580 00:15:26.899 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, perfect.

191 00:15:27.330 00:15:28.360 Demilade Agboola: Alright, sounds good.

192 00:15:28.620 00:15:29.960 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, thank you guys.

193 00:15:30.130 00:15:31.140 Amber Lin: Alright, thanks.

194 00:15:31.620 00:15:32.150 Demilade Agboola: Base.

195 00:15:32.150 00:15:32.820 Amber Lin: Right.