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  • Nov 10 Solidroad Cycle

  • Nov 10 - Patrick Alex & Tony did a call - Takeaways were broadly under 3 headings

    • Engineering velocity isn't where we'd like it to be. Jason isn't at the races. Joey seems oddly slow too. Jen is doing well.

    • Engineering staffing - We'd like to take Jason off and also find someone at the level of Jen or Joey to come in, potentially more than one.

    • Product Acceleration - we'd like to explore how Tonic can help to take one or more product streams and organize it, primarily to increase throughput but also to give more visibility on timelines and to be able to have high level planning conversations understanding where everything is.

  • Updates since then

  • Fixing Engineering Velocity

    • I know that Joey's a superstar & had a hunch the metrics were off in some way. I had a chat with her, told her about the metrics, and asked Jen to get more deeply involved in distributing tickets. I think Joey had just been undertaking what was fed to her, which was potentially not high impact work, and weave grades on impact. As of Dec 1 these measures seem to have worked and the problem seems solved, but we should keep an eye on it too.

  • Accelerating the PM track

    • We explored a few options - I had 3 sessions with an external consultant (Ahuva) before deciding to just draft Megan in as she had some capacity. I had thought this would be reasonably lightweight but after our sessions today & yesterday I'm not so sure. We'll need to monitor Megan's capacity closely here to make sure it remains viable.

  • Staffing

    • I let Jason go & he finished up on Nov 28.

    • Karlo (superstar I worked with back in First Circle days) coincidentally reached out and the timing was right for him to join. As of right now it's looking like he will start next Wednesday Dec 10, which will be exactly a month from our initial conversation in line with our 30 day replacement period.

    • Separately, Earle fired up the recruiting machine and began interviewing, and has gone through several candidates, a few of whom are promising. We'll keep interviewing but for now it seems surplus to requirements given that Karlo is in.