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LOA Phase - 2

Leave Plan overview

6 Weeks out (August 18th - September 26)

I’ve scheduled my leave to ensure I can contribute to Q3 quarterly planning, including breaking down planning into actionable tasks and assignments before I leave. The day-to-day execution will then be managed by the respective technical leads while I’m gone for paternity leave along with Chad overseeing the execution for F2F

Things to consider

Teams

I currently line manage Video. Below here the new point of contact for projects that doesn’t have clear owners but still under my purview

Push - backend -

@Javier Buzzi

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Push - Frontend -

@Joshua Logue

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Video -

@Joshua Logue

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@James Schefter

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I manage the leads for Data, Messaging and ML

No changes here.

@Scott Lam

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@Mark Stern

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and

@Prashanth Subbiah

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will continue to lead these teams respectively

Admin

Reporting structure

If you are directly reporting to me, You will be reporting to

@James Schefter

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for when I am gone during vacation. This affects Video team and other leads

Q2 Reviews

I finished the Q2 Reviews for all my direct reports already and submitted them through HiBob

Meetings

1:1’s will be paused until I’m back. Please feel free to put something on James’s calendar to meet at least once when I am gone.

Daily standups

AV Streaming - Continues to meet every day at 1 PM EST except for Tuesday(at 4PM EST)

Add your daily updates as comments to the Jira tickets you are working on. This is very important as reports will be generated weekly (or daily) based on these updates

Josh will be leading the progress of F2F

Will surface any blockers to Ryan or James

Will reach out to Claire to discuss more about Mobile F2F specifically to get design help.

Action Items

Apart from the assigned action Items through sprint, work below are the other outstanding action items

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@James Schefter

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Transfer direct reports to yourself or another person of your choosing and request HR to move them in HiBob.

Already initiated this through Zendesk

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@Ryan Chalman

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- Will work with Josh and Grzegorz and help getting F2F MVP released

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@Joshua Logue

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@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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- Manage F2F rollout working with

@Ryan Chalman

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and

@Chad Curtis

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@Joshua Logue

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Give Tech talks on Video Playback front-end

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@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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Write blogs/documentation on F2F backend engineering - Janus Server implementation, integration with Wowza and Django.

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@Scott Lam

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Finish Data Governance Plan

Plan onboarding for Keegan and the analytics engineer

Video

Admin

Meetings

1:1’s

Please meet with

@James Schefter

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at least once a Month if not more.

Daily standups

Team will continue to meet every day on the scheduled time along with

@Dan Connor

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from QA and

@Ryan Chalman

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from product

Reporting Structure

Team will report to James during the period of my absence

Vacations and PTO’s will be approved by James

Other

If you have a conference request reach out to James

Projects

F2F

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@Joshua Logue

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will be the point person on the engineering side for F2F

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Q3 Execution plan⁠

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Potential blockers

Updating dev stage servers with Janus

Updating staging and production servers with Janus

Glossary

Links

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Sprint Backlog⁠

- Created and allotted tickets for the next 4 sprints

go/streaming - for any team related information

Data Platform

Refer to

Q3 roadmap⁠

for quick view on Priorities, assignments and Jira links pointing to below assignments.

We should have a completed Data Governance framework before my return

Admin

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@Scott Lam

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will handle any admin related requests

Priority Framework

Use Q3 roadmap to prioritize work. Initiatives leading to direct company OKR objectives allways take precendence

Onboarding plans

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@Scott Lam

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will work on onboarding plans for both Keegan and the new analytics engineer

Define clear objectives for

30 days, 60 days and 90 days expectation

30 days familiarize

company, team, stakeholders, company OKR’s - How we relate to that

Tools, technologies, codebases, documentations, SWOT, gaps we have in reaching those OKR’s

How are they going to plan on filling those gaps - make sure they get this clarity

They are working on identified strategy areas that fits the gap

60 days

They are probably leading a gap area company, team, stakeholders, company OKR’s and are actively contributing and leading through technical implementation

90 days

Fully own and lead analytics projects or strategic areas, driving from planning through implementation and delivery.

Showcase measurable impact and improvements that contribute directly to the achievement of company and team OKRs.

ML/Data

Between

@Mark Stern

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, and

@Brian Mulford

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they have this handled. Please reach out to them if you have any queries

Top priorities from my perspective

Ensure that all projects are thoroughly documented by the end of Q3

Ensure that resources are appropriately used during the phase of

Increased focus on Data science and fine-tuning existing metadata and data pipelines

Messaging

Reach out to

@Prashanth Subbiah

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for any Messaging related questions

Action Items

James

Admin

Transfer direct reports - Already initiated.

Video

Schedule 1:1’s with Video team if needed (at Least once a month)

Follow up with

@Joshua Logue

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and

@Grzegorz Gronkowski

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for F2F releases

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