🇬🇧 The Moment I Took control of an Enterprise Meeting
Summary:
In this video, I reflect on my journey of taking ownership of the Epic enterprise, which involved months of reverse engineering and collaboration across teams. During a recent meeting, I had the opportunity to share our accomplishments, focusing on user experience, speed, and results, rather than diving deep into technical details. I emphasized the importance of storytelling and preparation, drawing from my extensive training in improvisation and public speaking. I also touched on my personal growth and resilience, shaped by various experiences and challenges. I encourage everyone to embrace their own journeys and celebrate progress while continuously striving for improvement.
Transcript:
0:00: Today, in a meeting with architects, directors, and search engineers, someone called me Mr. Quick Search, heh heh But that moment, did it happen today?
0:13: That moment started months ago, months of taking ownership of a big enterprise epic, doing reverse engineering of the entire system of more than 10 years, Just feeling whiteboards, yes, these whiteboards with architecture, diagrams, drawing, flows, also in ScalingTrow, in order to tell the story, documenting
0:36: ideas with also planning UMLs and coordinating across teams and repeating demos again and again and again. Just like a horse riding.
0:48: You repeat the jump, you repeat the turn until everything flows. During the meeting, the account director was leading the conversation, and suddenly there was a small opening.
1:02: Thanks to improvisation training, I learned something important. When the moment appears, take it. Just do it. So I said politely, allow me to quickly remind everyone what we accomplished last week.
1:18: And instead of going very technical, like we tend to do depth, we tend to do going very technical, I told the right story for the right audience because the real decision-makers in the room were non-technical.
1:36: So I focused on three things, the user experience, the speed and the results. That technology came later, and the best part, this wasn’t a mock demo.
1:52: It was a real website running with real content, smooth, fast, working, with the latest technology that I anticipated years ago that was coming.
2:05: And that’s when someone said, Mr. Quick Search, this works very smoothly, fast. But moments like that are never just about technology.
2:22: They come from years of storytelling training, yes, a lot of courses that I took, improvisation more than two years of a different classes for improvisation.
2:37: Public speaking courses, yes. Francois, Jaime Lertra from Peru helped me a lot here. Hackathons, I took more than, I participated in more than 100 hackathons.
2:50: Failed demos. Yes, things were not working. And because of that, I also had my plan B which was a lume recording video just in case.
3:01: even things outside tech helped me understanding myself better yeah I took different tests to get to know me better what are my strengths what I do and love doing the most working with professionals in the healthcare industry to get to know more about me more about my brain my psychology to get to know
3:30: about my emotions. Building resilience. Yes, it was broke two times. I was about to die three times. And that helped me to build a lot of resilience.
3:45: And everything adds up. My impra the page and tomorrow we go back to the day one.
4:04: Like the Amazon culture.
