retro-notes-jan-12.txt

What Well This Week?
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- Robust point total
- Talkbox lessons were learned
- Celery. Man, how good is celery? *Celery.*
- Beginning of a long and beautiful relationship with Docker
- Beginning of a long and beautiful relationship with Juypter notebooks
- We made great strides learning about uTu's workflow (Nitro -> uTu API -> BigTable -> Jupyter)
  - Understanding this workflow is part of our mandate when dealing w/ uTu
  - Our goal is to learn to fish, not simply obtain fish... we'd like to be our own machine learning experts eventually
- John understood an old meme better
- Good pairing!

What Didn't Go So Well This Week?
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- Confusion over Talkbox deployment procedures - is a manual restart needed? Probably yes.
- Infrequent Talkbox love leads to a lack of familiarity even w/ Talkbox experts
- Upstream shortcuts lead to downstream frustrations (and loss of productivity)
- We had to scramble and spend time turning uTu things off because of uTu outages
- Unable to ship story because of demo environment failure (data issues) (several people days)

Last Week's Kaizen - How'd We Do?
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"Ask Tim questions"

We did well! We got questions to Ben, who got them to Tim. Tim did not murder us and questions got answered.

Kaizen
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Pairing time with David, the MACHINE LEARNING MASTA! Who can teach us about Jupyter, etc.


Garett
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Team: 5
Company: 5

David
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Team: 4.9
Company: 4.9

Ben
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Team: 3 (would like more time with team, has a lot on his plate)
Company: 4.5

John 
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Team: 2.3
Company: 5