Meeting Title: Forging the Future Project Sync Date: 2026-01-20 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Greg Stoutenburg
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1 00:00:11.840 ⇒ 00:00:12.770 Greg Stoutenburg: Hey, Mustafa.
2 00:00:16.820 ⇒ 00:00:17.809 Mustafa Raja: Hey, how are you?
3 00:00:18.430 ⇒ 00:00:19.700 Greg Stoutenburg: Doing alright, how are you?
4 00:00:20.070 ⇒ 00:00:21.100 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, doing good.
5 00:00:24.390 ⇒ 00:00:27.710 Greg Stoutenburg: I saw UTOM’s loom of the Gantt chart,
6 00:00:28.160 ⇒ 00:00:29.350 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I guess…
7 00:00:29.980 ⇒ 00:00:30.810 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, go ahead.
8 00:00:31.060 ⇒ 00:00:34.519 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I guess we just need to break it down a little bit more, right?
9 00:00:35.100 ⇒ 00:00:35.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
10 00:00:36.130 ⇒ 00:00:50.590 Greg Stoutenburg: I mean, there were some things that he thought were too fast, some that he thought were too slow, so, that was a piece of it, splitting out the dashboards, renaming a couple things, and, condensing the, the implementation plan. So,
11 00:00:51.080 ⇒ 00:01:04.020 Greg Stoutenburg: One thing that I’ll be doing today is I just need to look at some old notes for how we’ve done tracking plan setups in the past, and get a call scheduled with stakeholders for this project.
12 00:01:04.019 ⇒ 00:01:11.500 Greg Stoutenburg: And do that exercise to nail down those initial workflows and figure out what events we’re gonna have fire.
13 00:01:11.500 ⇒ 00:01:17.250 Greg Stoutenburg: I would, you know, dream come true, that call happens, like, tomorrow or Thursday.
14 00:01:18.880 ⇒ 00:01:25.770 Greg Stoutenburg: So, yeah. That’s my thought there. But we’ll revise the Gantt before that, and just show it to them.
15 00:01:26.380 ⇒ 00:01:27.269 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, okay.
16 00:01:27.530 ⇒ 00:01:32.109 Mustafa Raja: Let me know if you would want to set up a meeting, so we could do it together or something.
17 00:01:32.560 ⇒ 00:01:34.989 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, that sounds good. Let me just,
18 00:01:35.240 ⇒ 00:01:38.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Let me just get some more insights on… well, actually, I don’t know, let me see what…
19 00:01:39.810 ⇒ 00:01:41.420 Greg Stoutenburg: See what your calendar looks like today.
20 00:01:43.010 ⇒ 00:01:45.429 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’m pretty open, today also.
21 00:01:46.810 ⇒ 00:01:50.050 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ll put it at 4 and see how it looks.
22 00:01:55.460 ⇒ 00:01:56.310 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
23 00:01:57.370 ⇒ 00:02:00.030 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, I just sent you an invite for this afternoon.
24 00:02:06.440 ⇒ 00:02:07.260 Greg Stoutenburg: Mmm.
25 00:02:20.410 ⇒ 00:02:21.640 Greg Stoutenburg: No.
26 00:02:48.410 ⇒ 00:02:49.540 Mustafa Raja: I like your bedroom.
27 00:02:50.900 ⇒ 00:02:51.710 Greg Stoutenburg: What’s up?
28 00:02:52.040 ⇒ 00:02:53.579 Mustafa Raja: I like your background.
29 00:02:53.580 ⇒ 00:02:58.149 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, thank you. Yeah, this is a… this is a house I’ve been renting for the last couple of years.
30 00:03:00.130 ⇒ 00:03:05.240 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, because I like how, how it brings a lot of color together.
31 00:03:05.910 ⇒ 00:03:09.610 Mustafa Raja: It’s unique. I haven’t seen this before, and it’s beautiful.
32 00:03:10.220 ⇒ 00:03:13.440 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, thanks, yeah, I’ll, I’ll pass it along to the homeowners.
33 00:03:14.510 ⇒ 00:03:16.109 Mustafa Raja: Oh, sorry, you cut off.
34 00:03:16.690 ⇒ 00:03:25.320 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, I said, I was just making a joke. I said, I’ll pass that along to the homeowners. In other words, I deserve no credit for this being a nice color.
35 00:03:25.490 ⇒ 00:03:31.339 Greg Stoutenburg: it’s kind of a neat room, actually, so I’ll just… There, while we’re waiting.
36 00:03:31.470 ⇒ 00:03:33.839 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ll just lift this up. Can you still see?
37 00:03:35.110 ⇒ 00:03:39.159 Mustafa Raja: Sorry, I realized I was on my mobile network, and I just shifted it.
38 00:03:39.160 ⇒ 00:03:39.940 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, okay.
39 00:03:39.940 ⇒ 00:03:41.800 Mustafa Raja: Wi-Fi. Yeah. Yeah, I can hear you now.
40 00:03:42.610 ⇒ 00:03:46.190 Greg Stoutenburg: So here’s, like, a very… a small backyard, nice for, like, a little fireplace and things like that.
41 00:03:46.610 ⇒ 00:04:06.140 Greg Stoutenburg: some patio space. Here’s a small deck, and then this room that we’re in right now, that’s a bathroom, but, like, the heat isn’t wired up to anything, it’s just an electrical heater, so probably that was just, like, a storage closet, and, like, this whole thing was a shed. This is the view that I see when I’m looking at the desk.
42 00:04:06.400 ⇒ 00:04:18.700 Greg Stoutenburg: And then, I think probably the exit to the house a long time ago would have been this large doorway here. So, it’s kind of nice. I’m in a room, then, that gets a lot of light, because I think it.
43 00:04:18.709 ⇒ 00:04:19.139 Mustafa Raja: to me.
44 00:04:19.480 ⇒ 00:04:23.029 Greg Stoutenburg: You know, basically outside, practically speaking.
45 00:04:23.160 ⇒ 00:04:23.740 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
46 00:04:23.870 ⇒ 00:04:27.049 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, and then, and then that’s your dog sitting there.
47 00:04:28.610 ⇒ 00:04:30.939 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, my dog? Yeah, yeah, this is our comedian.
48 00:04:31.470 ⇒ 00:04:33.939 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, this is Arca. He’s a good boy.
49 00:04:34.490 ⇒ 00:04:35.860 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, he’s a big boy.
50 00:04:36.190 ⇒ 00:04:39.679 Greg Stoutenburg: He is a big boy. He’s 120 pounds.
51 00:04:40.010 ⇒ 00:04:45.689 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, anytime, just for perspective, I’m 5’10”. If I stand up…
52 00:04:45.910 ⇒ 00:04:49.929 Greg Stoutenburg: I can just stand up and touch him. So, he’s pretty big.
53 00:04:53.190 ⇒ 00:05:07.429 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, he’s a big guy, and he’s a good guy, and anytime I get on a call and he hears my voice, he’ll just come from the other room and just, like, insist on attention or wanting to go outside, so… Yeah, he could be a little disruptive, too.
54 00:05:08.350 ⇒ 00:05:09.140 Greg Stoutenburg: Huh.
55 00:05:10.090 ⇒ 00:05:11.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Do you have any pets?
56 00:05:11.010 ⇒ 00:05:24.830 Mustafa Raja: That’s nice. So, I live with my parents, and, they don’t allow pets in the house, but I have a few cats that stay in my lawn.
57 00:05:25.450 ⇒ 00:05:26.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay. Okay.
58 00:05:26.450 ⇒ 00:05:26.840 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, cool.
59 00:05:28.210 ⇒ 00:05:33.669 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, my girlfriend’s got two cats, she got them when they were kittens, like…
60 00:05:34.150 ⇒ 00:05:34.480 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
61 00:05:34.480 ⇒ 00:05:36.280 Greg Stoutenburg: Just over a year ago, like, 13 months.
62 00:05:36.280 ⇒ 00:05:37.200 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
63 00:05:37.200 ⇒ 00:05:41.429 Greg Stoutenburg: And it’s two brothers from the same litter, and they don’t look at all alike, which is funny, like…
64 00:05:41.430 ⇒ 00:05:52.620 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I can understand that. I can, I can understand that. So, so, the gases I have, I like really,
65 00:05:52.620 ⇒ 00:06:09.589 Mustafa Raja: I like, children. So, so initially, it’s been 5 years since I’ve moved into this house, and the, the day I moved in here, I had these cats, right? So, they’ve, like, had a lot of, babies over and over.
66 00:06:09.610 ⇒ 00:06:17.449 Mustafa Raja: So it’s like, I don’t even know who’s the granddad, who’s the dad now. It’s all mixed up.
67 00:06:17.790 ⇒ 00:06:19.070 Greg Stoutenburg: Go outside.
68 00:06:19.070 ⇒ 00:06:25.330 Mustafa Raja: It’s like, it’s like 10.15 now, 10-15 cats. Oh, wow. Yeah. A lot of cats. Yeah.
69 00:06:26.000 ⇒ 00:06:26.870 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
70 00:06:27.800 ⇒ 00:06:29.440 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah,
71 00:06:29.590 ⇒ 00:06:35.240 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, she just has the two, but the fact that they’re from the same litter, I think, makes them… they just play together so well, which is.
72 00:06:35.240 ⇒ 00:06:35.730 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
73 00:06:35.730 ⇒ 00:06:38.530 Greg Stoutenburg: Scats are usually pretty, you know, they can…
74 00:06:38.530 ⇒ 00:06:39.059 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah.
75 00:06:39.060 ⇒ 00:06:44.240 Greg Stoutenburg: Hide under things that you never even… So they’re pretty playful.
76 00:06:44.760 ⇒ 00:06:52.780 Greg Stoutenburg: Unfortunately, they are terrified of my dog, so… he’ll just… if he sees one, he’ll just stare at him.
77 00:06:53.040 ⇒ 00:06:53.760 Mustafa Raja: And everything’s.
78 00:06:53.760 ⇒ 00:06:57.559 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s fine, but if they turn around to run, The chase is on.
79 00:06:57.560 ⇒ 00:06:58.980 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah.
80 00:06:58.980 ⇒ 00:07:03.229 Greg Stoutenburg: So we’re always, like, trying to tell the cats, like, just don’t turn around, just don’t turn around.
81 00:07:04.310 ⇒ 00:07:07.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Puff up, do the thing where you turn sideways and puff up.
82 00:07:09.730 ⇒ 00:07:15.050 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, I’m gonna check on Robert. We’re gonna end up just having a… 10-minute call about pets.
83 00:07:24.390 ⇒ 00:07:27.829 Greg Stoutenburg: Let me also just check his calendar, make sure something else didn’t go over it.
84 00:07:28.040 ⇒ 00:07:28.610 Mustafa Raja: Yep.
85 00:07:34.800 ⇒ 00:07:40.490 Mustafa Raja: Also, it would be nice if I could get your insights on…
86 00:07:40.660 ⇒ 00:07:44.530 Mustafa Raja: This loom that I recorded, I’m sending you in DM.
87 00:07:44.760 ⇒ 00:07:46.399 Greg Stoutenburg: Sure, yeah, I’ll take a look.
88 00:07:50.370 ⇒ 00:07:53.760 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, it’s not super urgent, but whenever you get some time.
89 00:07:54.270 ⇒ 00:07:56.409 Mustafa Raja: Okay, thanks. I’d love your thoughts on this.
90 00:07:56.760 ⇒ 00:07:58.100 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep, sure.
91 00:07:58.360 ⇒ 00:08:11.380 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, my goal for the meeting today was just that, following the Forging the Future company playbook, to align on these regularly scheduled meetings we have, where the three project leads,
92 00:08:11.590 ⇒ 00:08:16.339 Greg Stoutenburg: connect, and just look at the project. So, this was me just attempting to kick that off.
93 00:08:16.340 ⇒ 00:08:18.850 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah. One, one, one…
94 00:08:18.850 ⇒ 00:08:19.330 Greg Stoutenburg: Perfect.
95 00:08:19.330 ⇒ 00:08:22.559 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, one question I would have is,
96 00:08:23.690 ⇒ 00:08:28.520 Mustafa Raja: Which stand-up do we talk about this, is it the strategy stand-up?
97 00:08:29.650 ⇒ 00:08:39.749 Mustafa Raja: That’s a good question. Since… since service lead is Robert, because I’m not in that stand-up right now, if you’re going to talk about this project over there, I’ll… I’d like to be there, you know.
98 00:08:40.559 ⇒ 00:08:44.389 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I think some of this is gonna change, so…
99 00:08:45.989 ⇒ 00:08:49.159 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that’s actually… we’ll ask Robert that question. That’s a good question.
100 00:08:49.160 ⇒ 00:08:49.760 Mustafa Raja: focus…
101 00:08:51.200 ⇒ 00:08:57.150 Greg Stoutenburg: Because, yeah, I don’t know. Since we’re also doing stand-ups per client.
102 00:08:57.770 ⇒ 00:09:06.929 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know what the future of having stand-ups be based on engagement type. I don’t know. I don’t know how much value there is in that. Might be kind of repetitive.
103 00:09:07.780 ⇒ 00:09:10.040 Mustafa Raja: For a client within the same meeting, or…
104 00:09:10.610 ⇒ 00:09:11.670 Mustafa Raja: Something else.
105 00:09:11.850 ⇒ 00:09:16.960 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, I mean, like… If we’re gonna have a default weekly sync.
106 00:09:17.120 ⇒ 00:09:27.860 Greg Stoutenburg: or daily sync, or something like that. We probably don’t also need a daily service strategy… strategy service stand-up where we’re talking about default as well. You know what I mean?
107 00:09:28.250 ⇒ 00:09:29.239 Mustafa Raja: It’s all that’s good.
108 00:09:29.240 ⇒ 00:09:30.159 Greg Stoutenburg: Questions, good question.
109 00:09:30.160 ⇒ 00:09:38.390 Mustafa Raja: So, for the other project, the data engineering and BI project that we have with, Demilade and I,
110 00:09:38.490 ⇒ 00:09:50.969 Mustafa Raja: We talk about this daily in the, in the data, data service stand-up, you know? So, we do not have, a default specific stand-up every day.
111 00:09:54.120 ⇒ 00:09:54.910 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
112 00:09:55.380 ⇒ 00:09:56.160 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
113 00:09:56.550 ⇒ 00:09:58.230 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, we might need one, we’ll see.
114 00:09:58.540 ⇒ 00:09:59.210 Mustafa Raja: Yep.
115 00:10:00.070 ⇒ 00:10:02.420 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, we’re 10 minutes in,
116 00:10:02.860 ⇒ 00:10:10.710 Greg Stoutenburg: I think… I think I’m gonna pull the plug on this one, and and we’ll just… we’ll just hear from Robert, and we’ll reschedule some other time.
117 00:10:11.230 ⇒ 00:10:11.700 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
118 00:10:11.700 ⇒ 00:10:14.379 Greg Stoutenburg: Or maybe, or maybe he’ll open up in 5 minutes, and we’ll check them.
119 00:10:14.850 ⇒ 00:10:18.220 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, okay, thank you. Alright, talk to you later. Thank you, bye.