Work Week 2: 3.11.2022

A little late due to vacation!

Monday:

• Continued to review and update the Common Data Model, UI, DAML and payload entity mapping.
• Continued to make sure all user stories had the latest data attributes and DAML. (Long, manual process)

Tuesday:

• Held a longer daily stand-up as team and I blasted our product manager one last time on all the questions we had last week before he rolls off the project, HAHA.
• This is the first time I've worked with someone for over a year. Usually my projects only last 3 months. Teared up as I thanked him for all his mentoring and support. :'(
• Lead the first metaverse conversation to see who in our innovations group was interested in helping with the proposal.
• Spoke about how I dabbled in Axie Infinity. (Thank you Axie Infinity, really didn't think you'd help my career HAHA)
• Divided slides on the research done around Chatbot and industry trends for next week's emerging technologies huddle.

Wednesday:

• Held another client workshop but with support of my manager around standardizing our data attributes.
• Updated all user stories to reflect proper changes with the finalized data attributes. Super loooonnnggg and manual effort.
• Reviewed and addressed any defects/bugs leftover.

Thursday:

• Worked half-day. Made sure team was aligned with what is left to be done for SIT. Answered any additional questions.
• Picked up some free plant cuttings and chopped it up for propagation hehe
• Off to Paris!

Friday:

• First time in Europe! WOOOHOOOOo
• Too excited and couldn't sleep at all. Proceeded to sleep for 6 hours once at the hotel.
• Eating pastries and croissants is really killing my stomach. But I LOVE IT.

Improvements within the Week:

• Learning to become more independent, manage others, and not second-guess my decisions.
• You can say starting from this week, I have been officially promoted to "Product Manager". With the added-on responsibilities of product analyst and scrum master. Whew.

Next Week:

• Enjoy Paris. Buy as much French goods for the family as possible.
• Eat all the basic French cuisines. Try not to poop myself from all the coffee, butter, sugar, carbs, etc.
• Try not to think of work as I see all the emails and chats come in whenever I get wifi.
• First week as an INDEPENDENT product manager. Oh baby