What metrics do I need? User stories.

28 June 2024 Go-getter. GTD Ninja. The super focused.

Plan of action

Making actual choices and decisions. Will generate hypothesis and will commit to them.

Agenda

Emotional state. Great relationship of how we feel and the actual result of our actions.

If I feel grumpy and go to the gym. The only impact is the mood whether you take an action. But it doesn't impact the results of the actions much. More in women.

SO MANY BLOGPOSTS that I wish I would've published. When I look back: I am so happy to have pushed it back then… I look in my life and I wish I got up to more women… are there any cases where I got so humiliated?

Stopped by shame. I was so ashamed and was such a disaster.

Our product is not failing because it's not good enough. It's because we aren't sharing about it.

Who cares? For me it's really a safe place.

27 June 2024 Game the time today

26 June 2024 Game with time today

Playfully on time. Wrap up the meetings playfully early today.

25 June 2024 Executive Coaching

I will explore the OKRs Discover which ones are most important Identify tasks or initiatives I want to take towards them

Copying your OKRs into a spreadsheet

20 June 2024 Executive Coaching

How to create space for leading

For Datahub Cloud,

For client projects, they are clear in terms of what needs to be done. Leadership stuff and Datahub Cloud are more complex and require more thinking.

What happens. Situation:

I tend to overthink everything
I tend to get lost in my brain
Then I tend to make myself wrong about all of that
And then I get back to doing things that are clear and I can easily execute and get the short-term pleasure from that

Problem

More complex projects that require clarity get procrastinated because of me getting overwhelmed just by thinking about how unclear they are and how much time they need and that I don't have this time and if I pick it up, I won't get it done and I also won't get the other projects done. => I will end up sitting between two chairs (on the floor)

Solution

I need to get it off my head and put it down in writing
I need to answer this question for myself "What do you need to get that project off my mind?" There will be some thinking required. From top to bottom.
Block full Fridays just for Datahub Cloud
Block full Tuesdays just for leadership work

Week of journaling:

GETTING stuff on paper. You're on a walk and you don't have paper. Outflow it. Be strict. Outflow it and get it out. No necessary action.
Deeper work dedicated time. What's next and where do you go?
2 days for deep work. be realistic.

What kills me sometimes is even coming to deep work. Linger friction. What makes a huge difference, I am not spending it in the planning phase but I have a list of the next actions. Could be small or big. DO a project plan for the next 6 months.

By having those prepped at some other time. Have this list created OUTSide of the deep work so that I don't spend a lot of time planning. Rabbit in the headlights.
The best time is the first 2-3 hours. Half of it I spend getting stressed over how I want to spend my time. Just spend it out of the list. Your work time - what's next, I do it. Very zen.

What's missing all this time is discipline.

I am creating the possibility of being

Horizontal inventory is fine but vertical inventory is lacking (going from top to bottom and not necessarily across)

19 June 2024 Executive Coaching

How to create space for leading Clearing yourself Datahub Cloud Create space Get out of reactive mode Different possibilities that I create

The possibility I am inventing for myself and my life is

inauthenticity I am pretending … behind being reactive. If I don't deal with the things bad things will happen…

What is missing all the time is a sense of confidence or willingness What are we pre

We don't deliver on time, the client ends up unhappy… either I need to jump back in and spend even more time or the client will go…

I remain a project manager…

What's missing all this time. Structure. Trust. Clarity.

There is a missing being. Left field. How can I be trusting? Being creative about it. think for tomorrow.

Making myself wrong.

What's missing all this time?

Mohamed / Daniela

Overall you aren't performing at the expected level
We have some people sitting on the bench and we need to make some hard decisions
Can we move to 0 hour contract basis (without the part of working on an average basis of 30+ hours per week) and you work only if we come and request work from you?
For now, we seem to be over-resourced but if any projects start soon we may reach out

Feedback…

We talked about this button on the landing page yesterday and I check today and it's still the same thing https://datahub.io/
Overall, working with you is often difficult for people and it takes a lot of energy or mental resource, I can't just assign you to something and you go execute..
I understand you're rather junior but there doesn't seem to be an improvement from what I am hearing (problems we have today seem to have been there from the start)
Communication is lacking - proactively giving an update if you won't be able to complete X and Y and keeping us posted.
Technical competence: unfortunately, I am relying on feedback from Ola and Rufus here, and doesn't seem positive
Overall motivation seems to be gone and you know that

Mohamed:

Rate was 3-4 less than what he can get Culture is not a good fit He already decided to move on He even told his friends … He could've given more to the company but the culture is very different from what we get. Yes, he is a junior but he can provide more value than just some code. He needs more freedom. He didn't like that he's not getting along with Rufus. He had particular frameworks that he had to follow. He wasn't included in a lot of meetings so he felt he was working independently. Didn't get a sense of the big picture. He didn't like the codebase of Datahub Cloud. He thinks it needs a lot of refactoring. He didn't feel like he had any ownership of the project. Felt like we are trying to cut down the hours to the bare minimum. Maybe there are some people who agree to these conditions.

WTF 22 Mar 2024

I wanted to take a moment to address the points raised by Victoire around the significant delay in our project and extend my sincerest apologies for all the frustration or inconvenience this has caused you.

Your concerns are valid, and I fully understand the pressing nature of the situation we find ourselves in.

Our word was that this will be finished 10 weeks ago.

10 weeks later, this isn't finished yet.

Restore integrity

First and foremost, I want to acknowledge the considerable impact that our delay has had on your plans and the external pressures you are facing as a result. We recognize the seriousness of the situation and the importance of delivering on our commitments in a timely manner.

I can sense that you lost your trust in the team. I am also aware that there are legal implications tied to this and real risks

I do not want to go into a justification mode and we can have a proper retrospective after all this ends but I just want to acknowledge a few things.

Yes, this project is not so similar to the work we've done previously and hence, some aspects that part of the team is dealing with for the first time
It seems that the scope and its size was not very clear at the beginning. If we knew what the actual scope is and how complicated this whole work will be, we wouldn't have committed to this timeline, this delivery dates, to this budget even (because it's clear we are running at a loss at this stage)
It seems that all this scope and the work were massively underestimated. Despite this, I know that the team is working super hard and on weekends.
Qe have been working during whole this time and the team is working super hard. We are going above and beyond..
From what I see there are some issues with the data at its source itself …

Our commitment is to drive this to an end and our commitment is for you and for the stakeholders to end up satisfied with the work delivered. Moving forward, we are implementing several measures that we already discussed on the call to rectify the situation and ensure that we regain lost ground as efficiently as possible. Among these steps:

Increased Resources and Visibility: We are dedicating additional resources to the project to expedite progress and mitigate any further delays. Plus, this is also on our radar now so it will be very closely monitored.
Regular Updates. Be on our channels/be in the loop: To keep you informed of our progress and any potential challenges along the way, we will provide regular updates on the status of the project. Transparency is crucial, and we want to ensure that you have full visibility into our efforts to address the delay.
Open Communication: Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we encourage open communication throughout this process. Please feel free to share any concerns or suggestions you may have as we work together to overcome this setback.
Auditing the script Someone other than Yedige going through the scripts and the raw data. Correcting the raw data.
Documentation 1. Document all the issues that came from Facebook that we documented 2. Go through every step again and understand where the mistakes occurred
1. These are all the issues that we had. This is what we did to resolve them. You mentioned some master document.
2. What is the list of all the outstanding issues. We can have this on the board.
Revised Timeline: We have thoroughly reviewed our project timeline and have implemented a revised schedule that accounts for the delay while still prioritizing quality and accuracy.
Blocking time for focused collaboration ideally some point next week to wrap up the 3 main pages etc.. half or full day. We get it to the finished line.

Outstanding: The 3 main pages –> FINALISE NEXT WEEK // Publisher archive page, the Individual record page and the Platform page

A bunch of static pages - subdomain as per her suggested approach// make sure header and footer align Homepage - let's park this page until we have the other 3 pages - we can't fully design it atm anyhow because of dependencies

We can fix the data issues and the data pages and get them to users to test which will win an additional

Self-made mistakes around the data Data was supposed to be finalised by November. 20-week mark of delay.

On Monday, visibility on frontend and on data points

Correcting things we have done wrongly on the data. Debug the data.

Taking the script one by one. Full integrity of the data.

15th of April is the next critical date. There are technical commitments.]

She has 5pm meeting gmt + 1

If Anuar can share the list of issues ahead of Monday, she is happy to review before that.

We promised this. How is this going to be fulfilled:

clarity and finalized timeline on Monday
today, schedule the sprint on Monday