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Traffic light: 🟡
This week's headline:
- Shifted from tracking execution to actively managing project commitments and accountability.
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Things that moved the company forward.
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- Successfully prepared and delivered the VP project portfolio presentation.
- Established clearer expectations around project ownership, commitments, and operational coverage.
- Continued building my long-term management system in Obsidian to centralize decisions, employee follow-ups, meetings, and projects.
- Wrote a lot about solutions for a better Mogador and a Sync v2 which I'll call content publication engine (CPE)
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What keeps me awake?
| Risk | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
|------|--------|------------|-------|
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| Risk | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----- |
| PBI Algolia delivery continues to slip after validation findings | High | Re-establish remaining work, validate against approved scope | Binta |
| QA capacity reduced during Habiba's vacation | Medium | Reduce non-urgent requests and prioritize operational work | Me |
| Operational coverage during Habiba, Valery and Joel vacation | Medium | Reduce non-urgent requests and prioritize operations | Me |
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## Team health
Overall morale:
🟢 High
🟡 Normal
🔴 Low
### Coaching / Recognition
Who deserves recognition?
**Who deserves recognition?**
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- Habiba for identifying critical issues during validation instead of approving questionable results.
- Slimane for continuing to move BetterStack monitoring forward despite shifting priorities.
Who needs coaching?
**Who needs coaching?**
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- Binta on estimation, ownership, testing strategy, communication, and balancing project work with operational responsibilities.
- Slimane More autonomy in prioritization and technical decision-making.
Any conflicts?
**Any conflicts?**
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- Ongoing concerns regarding Algolia execution and expectations around project ownership for Binta. Hasn't done the "formation" from Ai Rei's jira ticket
Any hiring concerns?
**Any hiring concerns?**
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- None this week.
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# Projects 📁
| Project | Status | Next Milestone | Blocker |
|----------|--------|----------------|----------|
| | 🟢 | | |
| | 🟡 | | |
| | 🔴 | | |
| Project | Status | Next Milestone | Blocker |
| ---------------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| VP Portfolio | 🟢 | September follow up | None |
| BetterStack Heartbeats | 🟡 | Selection and implementation | Operation takeover with tickets |
| Umami | 🟡 | Establish new timeline | Operation then vacations |
| FMC | 🟢<br> | First draft as to what is available | None |
Projects slipping:
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- Algolia
- Umami
- Monitor Mogador
Projects completed:
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- VP portfolio presentation
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# Vendors 🤝
Any issue?
- Important discussion regarding advertisement placement requiring follow-up Mediatonik
- Trings is asking $3500 for tags which I'll approve
Renewals coming?
- None
Invoices pending?
- None handled the ones from Affranchis and Libeo
Contract risks?
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- None
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Important numbers this week.
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- No formal KPI review.
- Main focus remained project execution and delivery.
- Executive visibility into project portfolio improved.
Anything unusual?
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# Decisions Made
Decision | Why
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| Decision | Why |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Prioritize Board of Directors work over Algolia validation | Executive priority |
| Will pay $3500 extra to trings for tags | Keeping the OTT in french |
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What decisions must be made next week?
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- Do we need a 2nd streams for the live on the OTT
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Which meetings created value?
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- Sprint review
- Meeting with JC about the live POC and streamin
Which meetings should disappear?
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What did I unnecessarily do myself?
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- Anything mogador
What should be delegated next week?
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- Anything Idello
- Continue delegating technical execution while focusing on commitments, priorities, and outcomes.
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Lessons learned
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- Validation should confirm quality, not discover fundamental defects.
- Approved project documents should not be modified without communication.
- A manager's role is to manage commitments and decisions rather than solve technical problems.
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Something that annoyed me this week.
- Important project documentation was modified after approval without notification.
How can I make sure it never happens again?
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- Require communication whenever approved project documentation changes.
- Continue formalizing project governance and documentation practices.
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If the CEO walked in Monday morning, what questions might they ask?
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- When will Algolia actually be completed?
- What projects are currently at risk?
- Are we properly staffed for upcoming priorities?
Do I already know the answers?
Yes
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# Top Priorities Next Week
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1. Review Binta's tickets and delivery of the FMC project
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2. See if Affranchis has a solution for the sync issues
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3. Start talking about CPE.
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# Personal Reflection
Energy (1-10):
Energy (1-10): 8
Stress (1-10):
Stress (1-10): 4
Biggest accomplishment:
Biggest accomplishment: Mogador and preparing the presentation for the VP
Biggest mistake:
Biggest mistake:
- Not following closely Binta
- Not establishing earlier expectations around documentation governance and operational/project balancing.
One thing to improve next week:
- Ask better question
- Do more follow up
- Ask for documentation
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# CTO Development
Leadership
### Leadership
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- Improved documentation of employee performance and coaching discussions.
- Strengthened expectations around ownership and commitments.
Technology
### Technology
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- Continued refining the Obsidian knowledge system.
- Advanced BetterStack monitoring planning.
Business
### Business
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- Improved executive project portfolio reporting.
- Better understanding of project governance.
Finance
### Finance
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- Continued discussions around vendor and project prioritization.
Communication
### Communication
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- More direct conversations around expectations while remaining fact-based.
One thing I did this week that made me more like a CTO:
**One thing I did this week that made me more like a CTO:**
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- Focused on governance, prioritization, accountability, and executive visibility rather than technical implementation.
One thing I did this week that kept me acting like an individual contributor:
**One thing I did this week that kept me acting like an individual contributor:**
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- Spent too much time personally investigating technical details and documentation changes instead of relying on project ownership and management processes.