This week James forgets we’re recording, Garret’s kids go crazy with Infoplus stickers, Darin’s having a vacation and Tyler averages a “cadence of 92”. All of that and the guys discuss plans for 2021 (without James). Tune in next episode for James’ reaction.

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Summer Lager in winter

Checks from Santa

00:02:05 - Show Start

00:02:29 - Follow-Ups 

Garret

“Better” Rock updates

Less rambling, more concise

00:04:38 - The Headlines

Darin

Product roadmap published on website

Wrapping up some loose ends

“Having a vacation through the end of the year”

Tyler

Production changes holding up

Focus on some system rewrites

1 Hour long ride with an average cadence of 92!!!

Garret

Lots of follow up with clients (lagging effect of holiday’s)

“First week without a shitty L10 (formerly LTM) in several weeks”

Personal

Full on holiday mode (wrapping, buying, putting up trees)

Day 22 of 75 Hard - still going, but getting hard

Dressing for the season (hint: long underwear always)

00:11:08 - Topic 2 (1) What’s next?

We’ve discussed what went well and what didn’t...now what’s next for 2021

Focus on customer success...period

“Back to the basics” - only 3 parts to any company

Probably shifting some seats

Slowing growth down (same numbers, smaller overall percentage)

Choosing clients to “feed the machines we’re building”

Originally nothing concrete for Darin...but quickly turned into pages of notes and ideas

Narrow the focus

What’s that mean for the leadership team?

What issues does/can that team solve?

Raise the level of L10s across the board

Truly launch the product team and meetings

Match great integrators at department levels with vision in those departments

Potentially put an engineer deeper into the support team

One engineer in support and others writing code

Take the outline in our heads and create the execution plan

Product department sprints broader than just engineering sprint

Quarterly release cadence?

Simplification and user experience - from the people that know and use our software most

Asynchronous processing?

Tyler is excited to hear the plans (outside of James word vomit on Slack)

Seeing the need for change and plenty of benefits to be gained

As an engineer, can’t wait to get back to consistent sprints

Take it all with a grain of salt until a plan is communicated

What does that look like 

Does the company level visionary /  integrator relationship go away or change?

00:42:09 - End of Show 

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00:43:00 - Aftershow  

What are the plans for the holidays?

Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes

Show Notes by Garret Richardson

Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff

Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott