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Traffic light: 🟡
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Traffic light: 🟡
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This week's headline:
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- 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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Things that moved the company forward.
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- Successfully prepared and delivered the VP project portfolio presentation.
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- Established clearer expectations around project ownership, commitments, and operational coverage.
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- Continued building my long-term management system in Obsidian to centralize decisions, employee follow-ups, meetings, and projects.
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- 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?
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What keeps me awake?
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| Risk | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
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| Risk | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
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| PBI Algolia delivery continues to slip after validation findings | High | Re-establish remaining work, validate against approved scope | Binta |
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| QA capacity reduced during Habiba's vacation | Medium | Reduce non-urgent requests and prioritize operational work | Me |
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| Operational coverage during Habiba, Valery and Joel vacation | Medium | Reduce non-urgent requests and prioritize operations | Me |
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## Team health
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## Team health
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Overall morale:
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Overall morale:
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🟢 High
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🟡 Normal
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🟡 Normal
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🔴 Low
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### Coaching / Recognition
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### Coaching / Recognition
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Who deserves recognition?
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**Who deserves recognition?**
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- Habiba for identifying critical issues during validation instead of approving questionable results.
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- Slimane for continuing to move BetterStack monitoring forward despite shifting priorities.
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Who needs coaching?
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**Who needs coaching?**
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- Binta on estimation, ownership, testing strategy, communication, and balancing project work with operational responsibilities.
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- Slimane More autonomy in prioritization and technical decision-making.
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Any conflicts?
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**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
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Any hiring concerns?
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**Any hiring concerns?**
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- None this week.
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# Projects 📁
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# Projects 📁
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| Project | Status | Next Milestone | Blocker |
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| VP Portfolio | 🟢 | September follow up | None |
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| BetterStack Heartbeats | 🟡 | Selection and implementation | Operation takeover with tickets |
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| Umami | 🟡 | Establish new timeline | Operation then vacations |
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| FMC | 🟢<br> | First draft as to what is available | None |
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Projects slipping:
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Projects slipping:
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- Algolia
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- Umami
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- Monitor Mogador
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Projects completed:
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Projects completed:
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- VP portfolio presentation
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# Vendors 🤝
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# Vendors 🤝
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Any issue?
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Any issue?
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- Important discussion regarding advertisement placement requiring follow-up Mediatonik
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- Trings is asking $3500 for tags which I'll approve
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Renewals coming?
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Renewals coming?
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- None
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Invoices pending?
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Invoices pending?
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- None handled the ones from Affranchis and Libeo
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Contract risks?
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Contract risks?
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Important numbers this week.
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Important numbers this week.
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- No formal KPI review.
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- Main focus remained project execution and delivery.
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Anything unusual?
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Anything unusual?
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# Decisions Made
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# Decisions Made
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| Prioritize Board of Directors work over Algolia validation | Executive priority |
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| 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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What decisions must be made next week?
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Which meetings created value?
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Which meetings created value?
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- Sprint review
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- Meeting with JC about the live POC and streamin
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Which meetings should disappear?
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Which meetings should disappear?
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What did I unnecessarily do myself?
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What did I unnecessarily do myself?
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What should be delegated next week?
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What should be delegated next week?
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- Continue delegating technical execution while focusing on commitments, priorities, and outcomes.
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Lessons learned
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Lessons learned
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- Approved project documents should not be modified without communication.
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- 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.
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Something that annoyed me this week.
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- Important project documentation was modified after approval without notification.
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How can I make sure it never happens again?
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How can I make sure it never happens again?
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If the CEO walked in Monday morning, what questions might they ask?
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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?
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- What projects are currently at risk?
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Do I already know the answers?
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Do I already know the answers?
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# Top Priorities Next Week
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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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# Personal Reflection
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# Personal Reflection
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Energy (1-10):
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Energy (1-10): 8
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Stress (1-10): 4
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Biggest accomplishment:
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Biggest accomplishment: Mogador and preparing the presentation for the VP
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Biggest mistake:
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- Not establishing earlier expectations around documentation governance and operational/project balancing.
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One thing to improve next week:
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**One thing I did this week that made me more like a CTO:**
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**One thing I did this week that kept me acting like an individual contributor:**
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