Meeting Title: Element Project Sync and Planning Date: 2026-04-22 Meeting participants: Garrett Gibson, Greg Stoutenburg
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1 00:02:08.850 ⇒ 00:02:10.030 Greg Stoutenburg: Hey, Garrett!
2 00:02:10.770 ⇒ 00:02:12.869 Garrett Gibson: Hey, Greg. Morning, how’s it going?
3 00:02:13.430 ⇒ 00:02:15.179 Greg Stoutenburg: Doing alright. How are you?
4 00:02:15.440 ⇒ 00:02:16.030 Garrett Gibson: Good.
5 00:02:17.250 ⇒ 00:02:23.359 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool. Yeah, how are things going on Element?
6 00:02:25.850 ⇒ 00:02:34.309 Garrett Gibson: Good. I, started, kind of coordinating more closely with, Jasmine, you know, like, on a daily basis.
7 00:02:34.580 ⇒ 00:02:35.130 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
8 00:02:35.670 ⇒ 00:02:38.450 Garrett Gibson: So I think that’s helped a lot,
9 00:02:38.580 ⇒ 00:02:40.290 Garrett Gibson: So she and I can kinda…
10 00:02:40.750 ⇒ 00:02:43.750 Garrett Gibson: Tag team, like, if we’re in separate meetings, you know?
11 00:02:47.160 ⇒ 00:02:56.979 Garrett Gibson: and then, starting to do, like, more, daily comms also, like, to Shivani.
12 00:02:57.760 ⇒ 00:03:02.919 Garrett Gibson: And so, you probably saw, like, I start… I sent out, like, one end of day yesterday.
13 00:03:02.920 ⇒ 00:03:03.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.
14 00:03:03.940 ⇒ 00:03:07.920 Garrett Gibson: Just like, you know, what’s the status on the work streams?
15 00:03:08.650 ⇒ 00:03:13.460 Garrett Gibson: You know, things like that, and then…
16 00:03:13.860 ⇒ 00:03:20.780 Garrett Gibson: I’m… I just prepped the deck, you know, for tomorrow. I also added, two new slides.
17 00:03:21.300 ⇒ 00:03:26.669 Garrett Gibson: At the front of the deck, based on, actually, I can just share my screen, should I? Yep.
18 00:03:29.640 ⇒ 00:03:43.020 Garrett Gibson: Based on her documentation, so I, the first slide here is around, function area, so I kind of, like, transformed it a little bit, so we got, like, e-commerce, retail, and wholesale, right, which are, like, kind of the three…
19 00:03:43.190 ⇒ 00:03:46.159 Garrett Gibson: Key areas that map to the,
20 00:03:46.450 ⇒ 00:03:49.560 Garrett Gibson: You know, dashboard suites, and also the,
21 00:03:50.860 ⇒ 00:03:58.810 Garrett Gibson: the, the visa dashboard notes, right? So we got wholesale, retail, e-commerce, and then we got some other ones, like upcoming, right? Supply chain…
22 00:03:59.790 ⇒ 00:04:02.599 Garrett Gibson: Marketing, you know, etc.
23 00:04:03.070 ⇒ 00:04:04.610 Garrett Gibson: And then…
24 00:04:04.780 ⇒ 00:04:17.349 Garrett Gibson: See, I did that, and then I just put in, like, the current, element linear tickets, like, which ones were in progress. I saw this one actually just recently completed, right, the geography and regional POS.
25 00:04:17.540 ⇒ 00:04:22.650 Garrett Gibson: So just kind of, like, you know, high-level call-outs, like, for Shivani.
26 00:04:23.240 ⇒ 00:04:23.600 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
27 00:04:23.600 ⇒ 00:04:30.429 Garrett Gibson: And then just kind of, like, also highlight a risk, like this one. I think she has a 5-22, right, request date for e-commerce.
28 00:04:30.900 ⇒ 00:04:39.369 Garrett Gibson: And then, like, some hasn’t designed… hasn’t started, like, the… was it net new sales dashboard scope and design?
29 00:04:40.870 ⇒ 00:04:45.760 Garrett Gibson: So this might just be something, like, for us to go over, you know, with her.
30 00:04:45.760 ⇒ 00:04:52.620 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool. Yeah, okay, so that… that meeting is always Thursdays. I think we’re doing a sync…
31 00:04:53.970 ⇒ 00:05:00.520 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, Jasmine called for a stand-up, this afternoon, my time, to go through that. Okay, so we can go through that.
32 00:05:00.520 ⇒ 00:05:15.090 Garrett Gibson: The next slide is just kind of, like, a four box based on the key tabs that she updates, so it’s, like, one is, like, a milestone tracker tab, right? Like, kind of outlining the key milestones. Then we have, like, our data sources tab, like Utam and Awash, like, are kind of updating.
33 00:05:15.470 ⇒ 00:05:23.360 Garrett Gibson: For call-outs, and then we have, like, our V1 dashboard sign-off tab, right, which is important, like, what has been signed off by Shivani.
34 00:05:23.400 ⇒ 00:05:37.300 Garrett Gibson: And then we have, like, the VZR Dashboards tab. So I basically ask Todd, like, which tabs in the spreadsheet are most updated, you know, most frequently, and then let’s kind of create, like, a crafted slide, you know, based on, like, her documentation. Like, that’s kind of the thought.
35 00:05:37.560 ⇒ 00:05:49.389 Garrett Gibson: And then I just updated, like, the other slides we had based on, like, linear ticket, you know, completion. So, like, pilots complete, post-GA, QA active, rider rollout, right?
36 00:05:49.510 ⇒ 00:05:53.389 Garrett Gibson: Yep. And then, like, modeling updates…
37 00:05:53.960 ⇒ 00:05:59.789 Garrett Gibson: like, the three key risks that we have, like Amazon, Walmart, advertising ingestion blocked.
38 00:05:59.940 ⇒ 00:06:04.979 Garrett Gibson: Yep. Dashboard spec sign-off, a respect dog not clear,
39 00:06:05.740 ⇒ 00:06:14.450 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, ongoing transition, and then I just updated the, like, the Gantt chart view, like, you know, what’s been completed, things like that.
40 00:06:15.700 ⇒ 00:06:19.670 Garrett Gibson: So, yeah, it’s ready to review for today.
41 00:06:20.090 ⇒ 00:06:26.220 Garrett Gibson: And then… yeah, so that’s kind of the main stuff that I’m doing, and I’m also helping out on the Eden side, so…
42 00:06:26.610 ⇒ 00:06:38.200 Garrett Gibson: I’ve started doing, like, some backlog cleanup, you know, in linear. So this is down to 1.11 now, like, for the current cycle, so, just started, like, reaching out to team members, like, getting this kind of, you know, cleaned up more.
43 00:06:38.730 ⇒ 00:06:53.710 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. I, I wanna show you something, because I’m working on this for default as well. There is a cursor skill that, that I believe Bea made called EP Audit. So, if you do this backslash EP Audit.
44 00:06:53.710 ⇒ 00:06:59.759 Greg Stoutenburg: and point… point it at the right place, you can run commands here. So,
45 00:07:00.140 ⇒ 00:07:03.060 Greg Stoutenburg: And I think you’ve seen, because you’re in,
46 00:07:03.920 ⇒ 00:07:06.109 Greg Stoutenburg: Where do I run these to?
47 00:07:06.640 ⇒ 00:07:11.940 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, yeah, you’re in default, or yeah, you’re in the default channel, so you’ve seen that I run that stale ticket thing to…
48 00:07:12.500 ⇒ 00:07:17.680 Greg Stoutenburg: call people to update their tickets. I don’t think it’s really helped, I don’t think anyone pays attention to it, so I’m trying a new.
49 00:07:17.680 ⇒ 00:07:18.050 Garrett Gibson: approach.
50 00:07:18.050 ⇒ 00:07:33.530 Greg Stoutenburg: as of today. I’m gonna create a cursor automation that is gonna run this every single day, and then drop a note into Slack to get approval from ticket owners on if it’s done… if it got it right.
51 00:07:33.530 ⇒ 00:07:53.309 Garrett Gibson: that’s kind of what I did, like, actually, Claude just, like, auto-sent out, like, crafted messages with the linear tickets to, like, people in Slack, like, directly, and then I’m just, like, kind of following up, like, updating the plan, and then… but I’m also just focusing on, like, the current cycle, like, I’m not really looking at… like, there’s… because there’s so many tickets, like, in Eden, like, I think the current cycle has, like.
52 00:07:53.460 ⇒ 00:08:00.099 Garrett Gibson: 94. Yeah. So I’m trying to, like, just kind of focus on, like, kind of cycle by cycle, you know?
53 00:08:00.100 ⇒ 00:08:03.929 Greg Stoutenburg: I guess I should update my Aiden tickets, too, now that we’re talking about it and it’s Wednesday.
54 00:08:03.930 ⇒ 00:08:04.780 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
55 00:08:04.780 ⇒ 00:08:07.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, Eden ticks for me.
56 00:08:08.140 ⇒ 00:08:12.990 Greg Stoutenburg: I may have done it Monday, but, you know, I mean, everyone hates this kind of work. I don’t think anyone actually likes it.
57 00:08:12.990 ⇒ 00:08:13.320 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
58 00:08:13.320 ⇒ 00:08:14.620 Greg Stoutenburg: They do, there’s…
59 00:08:14.940 ⇒ 00:08:17.410 Garrett Gibson: I don’t see your name on… in the signs here.
60 00:08:17.590 ⇒ 00:08:18.230 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, okay.
61 00:08:18.290 ⇒ 00:08:19.230 Garrett Gibson: So…
62 00:08:19.230 ⇒ 00:08:19.630 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, good.
63 00:08:19.630 ⇒ 00:08:22.109 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, there’s two tickets. Okay.
64 00:08:22.540 ⇒ 00:08:24.700 Garrett Gibson: Actually, let me just share my screen, I’ll show you.
65 00:08:26.590 ⇒ 00:08:36.370 Garrett Gibson: One is… Excellent. Complete Eden OS tracking plan? I think that’s done, right?
66 00:08:36.370 ⇒ 00:08:39.680 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, yeah! No, that’s in progress. Okay, cool. I did update it.
67 00:08:39.789 ⇒ 00:08:40.440 Greg Stoutenburg: Sweet.
68 00:08:40.440 ⇒ 00:08:42.449 Garrett Gibson: Is it, like, in review, or is it… is it in.
69 00:08:42.450 ⇒ 00:08:47.219 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s just in progress, yeah, so it’s not… it’s not done. A piece of it is done, but…
70 00:08:47.220 ⇒ 00:08:50.229 Garrett Gibson: This one’s Resolve Identity Stitching in MixPanel.
71 00:08:50.230 ⇒ 00:08:54.769 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, also ongoing, yeah. Okay, cool. That’s accurate then.
72 00:08:54.770 ⇒ 00:09:00.289 Garrett Gibson: And then, I need to check with Jasmine on a couple of these. I’ll cancel. Yeah, no problem.
73 00:09:01.410 ⇒ 00:09:04.970 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, how… so just sticking with Element.
74 00:09:04.970 ⇒ 00:09:05.590 Garrett Gibson: Yep.
75 00:09:05.890 ⇒ 00:09:16.060 Greg Stoutenburg: how do you feel about, two… so two more things. How do you feel about the division of responsibilities between you… so, you know, I’m responding to Robert’s comment,
76 00:09:16.060 ⇒ 00:09:16.700 Garrett Gibson: Pierre.
77 00:09:16.880 ⇒ 00:09:26.620 Greg Stoutenburg: From yesterday. How do you feel about the division of responsibilities between you and Jasmine? And then, how do you feel about… well, let’s just start there. How do you feel about the division of responsibilities between you and Jasmine?
78 00:09:27.000 ⇒ 00:09:35.779 Garrett Gibson: No, yeah, I think it’s good. I think, kind of like I mentioned, Jasmine’s getting more involved in some more, like, the client meetings, like, with Shivani, and maybe, like, you know, a couple other stakeholders, so…
79 00:09:35.950 ⇒ 00:09:43.979 Garrett Gibson: It’s kind of good for us to, like, tag team, like, you know, if she finds out information about, like, updates on work streams, you know, things like that.
80 00:09:44.110 ⇒ 00:09:52.350 Garrett Gibson: So I think that’s… that’s pretty clear, and then I’m kind of owning, like, the overall, like, communication, you know, like, to Shivani, so…
81 00:09:52.350 ⇒ 00:09:52.740 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
82 00:09:52.740 ⇒ 00:10:05.340 Garrett Gibson: Ensuring we have, like, you know, the daily check-ins, ensuring prep for, like, the Thursday meeting, you know, kind of all those things. So, I feel like it’s kind of more clear than it was, like, a week or two ago.
83 00:10:05.340 ⇒ 00:10:09.220 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, alright, that’s good. How about,
84 00:10:09.480 ⇒ 00:10:18.520 Greg Stoutenburg: how about your relationship with the client? Like, do you feel like that’s coming along well? Like, do you feel like you understand the way Shivani thinks, and what her concerns are, and what her.
85 00:10:18.520 ⇒ 00:10:33.249 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. I think she’s very, she seems very, like, documentation-focused, you know, she likes to check things, like, she really seems, like, really, like, kind of heavy Excel-focused. Yeah. But she also kind of seems to prefer, like, you know, very,
86 00:10:34.100 ⇒ 00:10:45.020 Garrett Gibson: what do I say, like, targeted, you know, meetings and things like that, and more kind of async, you know, feedback. Yeah. Which is fine, I mean, it just seems like her kind of way of working.
87 00:10:45.360 ⇒ 00:10:48.660 Garrett Gibson: But yeah, just making sure that I’m,
88 00:10:48.820 ⇒ 00:11:01.839 Garrett Gibson: like, just keeping in line of, like, you know, especially her documentation, like, the priorities, you know, the sign-offs, right, on the dashboards, ensuring, you know, that I’m following along with, like, you know, various data sources, right, that we’re capturing.
89 00:11:02.320 ⇒ 00:11:11.529 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. You know, as it relates to building the dashboards, you know, things like that. So, I feel, you know, now that I’ve gotten more into the details, you know, of the project, I’m more…
90 00:11:11.710 ⇒ 00:11:19.050 Garrett Gibson: kind of familiar, you know, with the dashboarding, you know, getting onboarded to, to Omni as well, so I started poking around.
91 00:11:19.050 ⇒ 00:11:19.610 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
92 00:11:19.610 ⇒ 00:11:22.459 Garrett Gibson: Logged in here.
93 00:11:34.310 ⇒ 00:11:34.930 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
94 00:11:34.930 ⇒ 00:11:37.750 Garrett Gibson: the ones that, yeah, like, Abbott’s worked on? Yep.
95 00:11:37.750 ⇒ 00:11:45.060 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, okay, that’s good. Do you feel like you have your finger on the pulse of, the work that the team is doing for Element right now?
96 00:11:45.640 ⇒ 00:12:04.199 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, definitely, and I think especially, like, being able to kind of see it, like, that’s why I’ve been focusing on the deck, too, because, you know, being able to lay it out, like, e-commerce, retail, wholesale, kind of, like, by that, like, function area, and, you know, breaking it down at that higher level, that’s kind of how I’ve been, trying to, you know, tackle the kind of overall big picture, you know, the project.
97 00:12:04.490 ⇒ 00:12:08.739 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, cool, yeah. So I think, I think something that’s,
98 00:12:09.000 ⇒ 00:12:12.730 Greg Stoutenburg: I think something that’s really critical is… and that’s,
99 00:12:12.880 ⇒ 00:12:26.200 Greg Stoutenburg: You know, and it’s… it’s tough when… when onboarding something. It’s just really… just, like, really having a mental grasp of, like, what the project is and what statuses are of things, even broadly speaking, right? Not at, like, a ticket level, but at, like, a…
100 00:12:26.200 ⇒ 00:12:26.600 Garrett Gibson: Right.
101 00:12:26.600 ⇒ 00:12:33.349 Greg Stoutenburg: You know, at a level above that. And so, like, so… so, like, looking at, looking at,
102 00:12:34.420 ⇒ 00:12:36.460 Greg Stoutenburg: Let’s see which one it is, like…
103 00:12:36.780 ⇒ 00:12:45.199 Greg Stoutenburg: Like, looking at just this slide, for example, right? Wholesale in progress, like, in the topic area, the topic’s actually done.
104 00:12:45.220 ⇒ 00:13:01.840 Greg Stoutenburg: And… I mean, we might be polishing it or something like that, but, like, you know, we did… the wholesale and resale… retail requirements are actually already met, so I think, like, there will be places where we run, you know, we run cursor or whatever, and it’ll pull up old stuff, and…
105 00:13:02.210 ⇒ 00:13:08.529 Greg Stoutenburg: Having that context sort of, you know, just in mind, is needed to, like, polish things up before they go.
106 00:13:09.030 ⇒ 00:13:11.369 Greg Stoutenburg: In front of the client.
107 00:13:11.370 ⇒ 00:13:23.140 Garrett Gibson: And it’s also kind of, like, just reviewing with the team, too, because I think I’m also going to have to do the same thing for, like, Element, right? Like, kind of, clean up, like, each cycle, right? Like, what are we in, 21?
108 00:13:23.340 ⇒ 00:13:28.649 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep. Yeah, so some of this, of course, yeah, and as time goes on, like, we wanna… we wanna get…
109 00:13:28.650 ⇒ 00:13:44.580 Greg Stoutenburg: AI one… as close to one-shotting these things as possible. Exactly. But in the meantime, like, when you prepare these decks, do make sure that after you do the AI run, like, you actually go through… go through it and polish it before showing it to the team, even when the team is collaborating on it.
110 00:13:44.580 ⇒ 00:13:46.180 Greg Stoutenburg: Right, yeah.
111 00:13:46.180 ⇒ 00:13:48.829 Garrett Gibson: Hard to do, yeah, in the interest of time, so…
112 00:13:48.830 ⇒ 00:13:59.260 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and good, you know, and I… and good, yeah, just, you know, because ideally we wouldn’t go to, like, a review meeting, and then, like, I have to say that about the wholesale topic, right? It would just already be covered.
113 00:13:59.260 ⇒ 00:14:01.950 Garrett Gibson: To be fair, though, it is, like, a lot to put together, like.
114 00:14:01.950 ⇒ 00:14:02.680 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, I know what.
115 00:14:02.680 ⇒ 00:14:03.849 Garrett Gibson: Some great swirl.
116 00:14:03.850 ⇒ 00:14:05.330 Greg Stoutenburg: No, no worries.
117 00:14:06.030 ⇒ 00:14:20.889 Greg Stoutenburg: Absolutely, and I totally know that it is, and it’s, you know, as CSO on… on default, I, you know, I have to do this all the time. Like, I put it together, and I’m like, like, is this accurate? Like, is this accurate? So, you know, I’ll go, I’ll go and pull the deck, and then…
118 00:14:20.890 ⇒ 00:14:24.009 Garrett Gibson: I, like, poke holes in it until it gets right, kind of.
119 00:14:24.010 ⇒ 00:14:42.069 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, because here’s the thing, right? And this is why… and I’m trying to offer this sort of as, like, a, you know, Brainforge buddy, but also, like, CSO coach kind of thing, like, and this is where it comes back to knowing your client as well, right? Because if we get to this slide, if you showed Shivani this slide, she’d skin us, right? She’d be like, we did that, you know?
120 00:14:42.070 ⇒ 00:14:42.670 Garrett Gibson: That’s true.
121 00:14:42.670 ⇒ 00:14:45.690 Greg Stoutenburg: We did that, you know, what’s.
122 00:14:45.690 ⇒ 00:14:53.420 Garrett Gibson: It’s also good for us, like, as a team, to have, like, these two slides, because these two slides are really catered to, like, her kind of spreadsheet, you know, so if we…
123 00:14:53.420 ⇒ 00:14:54.829 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I agree with that.
124 00:14:54.830 ⇒ 00:14:59.790 Garrett Gibson: these two slides, like, and have them 100%, we’re pretty much, I think, good, like, for the meeting.
125 00:14:59.790 ⇒ 00:15:10.680 Greg Stoutenburg: No, and I do… and to clarify, I do agree that this is a good slide. Like, to have a slide like this is a good thing. What I’m saying is, for the details that are actually being surfaced.
126 00:15:10.680 ⇒ 00:15:11.750 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, absolutely.
127 00:15:11.750 ⇒ 00:15:21.719 Greg Stoutenburg: we need to be right, right? When we show this, like, we need to be right about this, because she’ll be like, I didn’t say… like, she’s like, I haven’t had issues with the wholesale topic, I just said this one question about, you know, or whatever.
128 00:15:21.720 ⇒ 00:15:28.670 Garrett Gibson: I do like how I am for eating, like, I’ll follow up with, like, you know, signees, like, of these tickets, and, like, just double-check statuses, yeah, things like that.
129 00:15:28.670 ⇒ 00:15:33.879 Greg Stoutenburg: Good, good, good, yeah, yeah. And that’s, you know, as we know, that’s just, that’s one of those areas.
130 00:15:33.880 ⇒ 00:15:35.140 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I kind of…
131 00:15:35.140 ⇒ 00:15:38.309 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s hygiene, and it’s, yeah, it’s having linear up-to-date, and then.
132 00:15:38.310 ⇒ 00:15:38.680 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
133 00:15:38.900 ⇒ 00:15:42.099 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, very good. And then, as far as, like, comms, like.
134 00:15:42.570 ⇒ 00:15:49.319 Greg Stoutenburg: when comms come through from Shivani or other members of the team, we want to see you, you know, jump in
135 00:15:49.460 ⇒ 00:16:00.760 Greg Stoutenburg: you know, pretty quickly, and just sort of be, sort of just be, you know, taking on more of that role of, like, the face of the team, so… so they’re used to it.
136 00:16:00.760 ⇒ 00:16:14.110 Garrett Gibson: Getting more involved in the, like, external channel and things like that, so, yeah, if I see Shivani, like, you know, ask questions or something, I’ll try to, you know, get answers more quickly, and, you know, in addition to, like, our daily, kind of, you know, calm send-out.
137 00:16:14.110 ⇒ 00:16:21.200 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and even if you, you know, even if you don’t know the answer, you can say, let me check on it. Actually, Shivani loves it when you say you don’t know things.
138 00:16:21.330 ⇒ 00:16:44.709 Greg Stoutenburg: She’s like, when I figured that out, I was like, alright, well, good, I know very little, and I will highlight that. Yeah, exactly. And tell you, and tell you, you know, that I’m gonna ask someone who does know. So, yeah, you know, and you can… something that Utam likes to use, and I think this is a pretty good rule, I don’t always clear… hit this bar, but it’s just, like, one interaction a day. You know, post in the channel at least once a day.
139 00:16:45.040 ⇒ 00:16:53.840 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, and that’s why I have that, I have a reminder now, it’s, like, I think 4PM, just to, like, kind of sync with Jasmine and, just craft, like, some kind of message, you know, to Siobhan, I think, so…
140 00:16:53.840 ⇒ 00:16:57.200 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we also have,
141 00:16:57.480 ⇒ 00:17:03.960 Greg Stoutenburg: We have a skill that’ll run, that’ll, like, create an update for you,
142 00:17:04.380 ⇒ 00:17:11.680 Greg Stoutenburg: I… we do one… I always do one once a week, usually. I have been doing Monday and Friday, but it’s, like, not… that’s, like, too much, so… so I’ve been doing it.
143 00:17:11.680 ⇒ 00:17:12.060 Garrett Gibson: Friday.
144 00:17:12.069 ⇒ 00:17:17.269 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s usually just like, here’s, you know, here’s what we did this week, here’s what we’re looking forward to next week, and then…
145 00:17:17.270 ⇒ 00:17:31.829 Garrett Gibson: created a template I can show you. I think our plan was just to do, like, Monday, Friday, just, like, for now, you know, as we’re kind of ramping up, Jasmine and I, and then, you know, just, yeah, so we just kind of laid out, like, some kind of templates, daily, stuff like that.
146 00:17:32.080 ⇒ 00:17:37.530 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, perfect. And now, you can make this into a cursor skill, and then just have it run for you, and then.
147 00:17:37.530 ⇒ 00:17:38.930 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I could do that, too.
148 00:17:38.930 ⇒ 00:17:56.950 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and they just pull your stuff and, you know, curate and pull. And that’s another one where you can do the AI draft, and then ask the team, you know, hey, you know, can you correct this? When I do that, I like to just make it a doc, because then people can edit it directly, and then I go, okay, everybody good? Good, good? Okay, send it. Very cool.
149 00:17:56.950 ⇒ 00:17:57.410 Garrett Gibson: That’s so…
150 00:17:57.410 ⇒ 00:18:06.359 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. Alright, that all sounds good. Cool. So, in Robert’s comment, I just want to make sure that we’re both looking at this thing. Oh yeah, can I, can I take your screen share?
151 00:18:06.360 ⇒ 00:18:07.349 Garrett Gibson: So yeah, go ahead.
152 00:18:08.050 ⇒ 00:18:09.270 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah,
153 00:18:10.650 ⇒ 00:18:22.939 Greg Stoutenburg: So, in Robert’s comment, he said, goal will be that, like, I sign off that we’re on track for this by the end of the week. And so… I mean, I’m sure, yeah, I’m sure you…
154 00:18:23.530 ⇒ 00:18:24.770 Greg Stoutenburg: Look at this.
155 00:18:24.770 ⇒ 00:18:25.900 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I’ve seen this.
156 00:18:26.410 ⇒ 00:18:27.360 Garrett Gibson: confusing.
157 00:18:27.360 ⇒ 00:18:32.060 Greg Stoutenburg: So, okay, so we’ve just talked about this…
158 00:18:32.310 ⇒ 00:18:34.749 Greg Stoutenburg: You just showed me what you’re working on for this.
159 00:18:35.070 ⇒ 00:18:47.790 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, so one of the things I’m gonna do right now is, like, just fine-tune the deck, linear backlog, cycle, all that stuff before the… I think we have the stand-up meeting later at 12 or something like that, so I’m gonna try to do all that, before then.
160 00:18:48.040 ⇒ 00:18:48.720 Greg Stoutenburg: Yes, good.
161 00:18:48.720 ⇒ 00:19:02.419 Garrett Gibson: That’s, like, my biggest priority. And then, yeah, end of day, like I mentioned, I’m gonna send out, like, updated comms to Shivani, you know, just, like, where we’re at, and then probably just give her a preview of the new, like, deck, you know, layout.
162 00:19:02.680 ⇒ 00:19:03.230 Garrett Gibson: So…
163 00:19:03.230 ⇒ 00:19:07.429 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, very good, very good, and I think, yeah, that all sounds good.
164 00:19:07.640 ⇒ 00:19:12.790 Greg Stoutenburg: 3 months horizon for SOW dependencies, milestones… You’re working on this right now.
165 00:19:13.430 ⇒ 00:19:16.290 Greg Stoutenburg: Distance to play invisible where the team looks.
166 00:19:16.850 ⇒ 00:19:21.379 Greg Stoutenburg: Risks and distance to plan. I don’t know what this… I don’t know what this means.
167 00:19:22.460 ⇒ 00:19:24.620 Garrett Gibson: Well, we have risks on our, like, weekly…
168 00:19:25.510 ⇒ 00:19:27.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, what’s Distance Plan?
169 00:19:28.680 ⇒ 00:19:30.550 Garrett Gibson: Well, that’s our, like, Gantt chart.
170 00:19:30.650 ⇒ 00:19:32.389 Garrett Gibson: That I’m updating, isn’t it?
171 00:19:32.390 ⇒ 00:19:34.349 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s what distance to plan means? I don’t know.
172 00:19:34.520 ⇒ 00:19:34.930 Garrett Gibson: But…
173 00:19:34.930 ⇒ 00:19:35.829 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ve never seen this.
174 00:19:35.830 ⇒ 00:19:36.360 Garrett Gibson: assume.
175 00:19:36.360 ⇒ 00:19:37.740 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ve never seen this phrase.
176 00:19:40.900 ⇒ 00:19:45.230 Garrett Gibson: That just sounds like a, like, roadmap timeline, in my mind, kind of.
177 00:19:48.400 ⇒ 00:19:56.440 Greg Stoutenburg: How far something deviates from a predetermined design route, or… oh, like, how far you off are you from a roadmap? Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Alright.
178 00:19:56.440 ⇒ 00:19:59.810 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, so that’s, like, I think I already did that slide, right? It’s kind of like a.
179 00:19:59.810 ⇒ 00:20:03.389 Greg Stoutenburg: No, you’re right, that’s risks and timelines and stuff.
180 00:20:03.820 ⇒ 00:20:08.310 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, you’re working on that. First portfolio snapshot to leadership.
181 00:20:09.330 ⇒ 00:20:19.980 Greg Stoutenburg: This will be something, I think… this is something we could collaborate on, or… yeah, this is something we could collaborate on. I think this is something to start thinking about, looking over the next…
182 00:20:20.500 ⇒ 00:20:23.589 Greg Stoutenburg: few months with Element. Okay.
183 00:20:23.790 ⇒ 00:20:27.070 Greg Stoutenburg: Something I… something I, I’d, push for…
184 00:20:27.070 ⇒ 00:20:30.909 Garrett Gibson: that function area, functional area slide, kind of like I was doing?
185 00:20:31.340 ⇒ 00:20:44.950 Greg Stoutenburg: I would look at… I would look at functional area, I would look at… it would be helpful for you to know in pretty solid detail the newest contract that we signed with Element. I haven’t read it, but I’m not CSO.
186 00:20:45.220 ⇒ 00:20:45.650 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
187 00:20:45.650 ⇒ 00:20:57.710 Greg Stoutenburg: just to know what exactly Shivani has agreed to, and what we’ve said we’d deliver. Okay. And I think with that in mind, you can use that as, like, you know, the benchmark for, alright, where…
188 00:20:57.900 ⇒ 00:21:00.889 Greg Stoutenburg: Where might we fall short in, say.
189 00:21:01.210 ⇒ 00:21:06.959 Greg Stoutenburg: July. You know, it’s that sort of thing, so that’s something to put together.
190 00:21:07.620 ⇒ 00:21:10.590 Garrett Gibson: And maybe we can, like, tag team, like, kind of on a draft or something like that.
191 00:21:10.590 ⇒ 00:21:17.080 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yep, be happy to do that, yeah. I mean, it’ll be… it’ll be your thing, but I’m happy to help on it however I can.
192 00:21:17.080 ⇒ 00:21:17.430 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
193 00:21:20.230 ⇒ 00:21:21.289 Greg Stoutenburg: You’re on this.
194 00:21:23.260 ⇒ 00:21:29.229 Garrett Gibson: I think, right now I’m just mostly focused on, like, pleasing Shivani, right? Yeah. What we’re doing, so…
195 00:21:29.230 ⇒ 00:21:45.050 Greg Stoutenburg: Perfect. Yeah, that’s exactly… so that’s exactly the sort of thing that the team wants to see from the CSO role, right? Like, because when it comes right down to it, like, of course we want to be proud of the work that we do. Yeah, absolutely. But what gets us money isn’t… isn’t,
196 00:21:45.340 ⇒ 00:21:48.600 Greg Stoutenburg: isn’t good work, it’s customer satisfaction, right?
197 00:21:48.600 ⇒ 00:21:49.190 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, exactly.
198 00:21:49.190 ⇒ 00:21:54.460 Greg Stoutenburg: Like, we need to do good work to obtain customer satisfaction most of the time. Sometimes you can also do…
199 00:21:54.640 ⇒ 00:22:13.900 Greg Stoutenburg: bad work, but get them to, you know, you know, persuade them that actually, like, you know, this is something that we’re working on, or we fumbled something. I just fumbled something with default and had to patch it up over the last two days. Like, and you get that goodwill back. So, I think your, you know, your insight, like, hey, I’m just working on pleasing Shivani, like, great.
200 00:22:13.900 ⇒ 00:22:19.910 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s, that’s the CSO’s job, and then the way we do that is, you know, is all these ways, so… Exactly.
201 00:22:19.990 ⇒ 00:22:23.130 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, that sounds good. For the deck itself.
202 00:22:23.130 ⇒ 00:22:23.740 Garrett Gibson: Yep.
203 00:22:23.740 ⇒ 00:22:24.359 Greg Stoutenburg: I just have to follow up.
204 00:22:24.360 ⇒ 00:22:31.990 Garrett Gibson: actually right here, like, especially on the slide, like, 4 and 5, I’m just, yeah, I’m gonna reach out to some team members right now.
205 00:22:32.330 ⇒ 00:22:37.590 Garrett Gibson: Like, on those tickets, and just, like, say, you know, do we mark it in progress, you know?
206 00:22:37.590 ⇒ 00:22:52.700 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, yeah, cool. Yeah, so I think I’d like to ask, before… before the call this afternoon with the team, like, just try to bring… just try to bring what you think is the most presentation-ready version of that deck that you can, before we all.
207 00:22:52.700 ⇒ 00:22:58.319 Garrett Gibson: Well, I already sent it out, yeah, that’s the link that I sent out this morning, but I’m just gonna do some, like, fine tweaks.
208 00:22:58.320 ⇒ 00:22:59.050 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, okay.
209 00:22:59.050 ⇒ 00:22:59.879 Garrett Gibson: for the meeting?
210 00:22:59.880 ⇒ 00:23:02.999 Greg Stoutenburg: Got it. I have 35 activity alerts, so…
211 00:23:03.200 ⇒ 00:23:03.590 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
212 00:23:03.590 ⇒ 00:23:05.550 Greg Stoutenburg: I have not seen it.
213 00:23:05.550 ⇒ 00:23:06.499 Garrett Gibson: Okay, no worries.
214 00:23:06.500 ⇒ 00:23:10.820 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so, so something, something I’d shoot for, and I tried making this stream.
215 00:23:10.820 ⇒ 00:23:15.799 Garrett Gibson: the tickets are… I wish Amber, like, admits, I’ll just probably reach out to the three of them.
216 00:23:15.800 ⇒ 00:23:23.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and you’ll have to lean on them for updates, and you know, while you’re at it, you can also say, like, hey, and also, if this had been updated in linear, the deck could have been up to date. Exactly.
217 00:23:23.450 ⇒ 00:23:30.640 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I can just say, like, if they… if, like, some of those tickets aren’t updated, I can just, like, update the tickets and, like, update the deck, kind of, like, simultaneously, so…
218 00:23:30.640 ⇒ 00:23:49.110 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, and just… and, you know, again, like, you know, your eye is on, you know, make sure Shivani’s satisfied. Just try to put yourself in her eyes, looking at the deck, and imagine what you’d want to see different. Like, one thing I think right away is, like, she’s not going to want to see those names of the tickets, you know what I mean? She’s not going to want.
219 00:23:49.110 ⇒ 00:23:49.460 Garrett Gibson: Honestly.
220 00:23:49.490 ⇒ 00:23:53.240 Greg Stoutenburg: LMNT dash whatever, so I’d just, like, delete all of those. Yeah.
221 00:23:53.240 ⇒ 00:23:56.630 Garrett Gibson: I’ll probably do that once I follow up folks, yeah, just remove the names.
222 00:23:56.990 ⇒ 00:24:09.740 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and you can even say… you can even say on the call this afternoon, like, hey, here’s what we’re gonna do here. Here’s something I already planned to change, but I want to make sure that we’re all aligned on all this stuff first, and then, you know, I’ll brush it up before we show Shivani. You can say that, too.
223 00:24:09.740 ⇒ 00:24:12.449 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I can pull, like, another version tomorrow morning, or something like that.
224 00:24:12.640 ⇒ 00:24:24.200 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool. Okay, cool. Do you feel, you know, I mean, do you feel good about, like, the direction with Element, and really, you know, fully, fully owning the CSO responsibilities for this client?
225 00:24:24.420 ⇒ 00:24:31.469 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, definitely, I feel, kind of more geared, more on track, kind of more organized, you know, compared to a couple weeks ago, so…
226 00:24:31.470 ⇒ 00:24:33.720 Greg Stoutenburg: Sweet. Good. Alright, cool. Another thing…
227 00:24:33.720 ⇒ 00:24:44.889 Garrett Gibson: I wanted to touch on with the team, too, is the 4 box, because I don’t think, we got ahead of it last week, so that’s probably, like, after the deck, we probably want to, just touch on the 4 box from?
228 00:24:44.890 ⇒ 00:24:47.650 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, I don’t know,
229 00:24:48.360 ⇒ 00:24:56.710 Greg Stoutenburg: I mean, Utum had been CSO on Element, and really, I mean, I was never CSO on Element. I… I was just CSO for the,
230 00:24:56.940 ⇒ 00:24:59.910 Greg Stoutenburg: the Omni stuff, but… I don’t just think.
231 00:24:59.910 ⇒ 00:25:06.059 Garrett Gibson: It would be good to have that, like, 4 bucks drafted before, you know, with Shivani tomorrow, is just what I’m thinking. Cool.
232 00:25:06.060 ⇒ 00:25:11.069 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s a great idea, and I think that might be the sort of thing that impresses her, and so I think that’s a good idea.
233 00:25:11.070 ⇒ 00:25:12.479 Garrett Gibson: Getting ahead of it there.
234 00:25:12.480 ⇒ 00:25:17.249 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I’d say go for it, yeah. Cool. Yeah. In general, we want to show ourselves as the ones who are driving.
235 00:25:17.250 ⇒ 00:25:20.019 Garrett Gibson: Exactly, yeah, that’s the goal, so…
236 00:25:20.020 ⇒ 00:25:20.590 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.
237 00:25:20.940 ⇒ 00:25:23.690 Garrett Gibson: Alright, well, I’ll touch base with you there. Appreciate it.
238 00:25:23.690 ⇒ 00:25:24.920 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, talk to you, man.
239 00:25:24.920 ⇒ 00:25:25.490 Garrett Gibson: Bye.