Closing the First Quarter

Josh gathers Rachel and Brandon at CloudHarbor in Leeds to review his first ninety days as tech lead.

Closing the First Quarter

True or false?

Brandon was skeptical about Josh's ability to fix infrastructure during the early sprints.

• True
• False

Rachel felt Josh made sweeping architecture decisions too quickly in his first fortnight.

• True
• False

The engineers noticed Josh's initiatives gained traction around week six.

• True
• False

Josh refused to invest company funds into modern tracing tooling.

• True
• False

The printed folder contained an annotated plan showing Josh had met all his targets.

• True
• False

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Josh: Thanks for staying late. Our ninety-day mark officially passed yesterday, so I want to ____ of the squad.
• Brandon: Well, the ____ definitely wore off around sprint four when the ingest cluster crashed.
• Rachel: True, but Josh didn't create a panic. Still, ____ , your first two weeks were exhausting for us.
• Rachel: You kept booking one-on-ones to take stock of legacy debt, but you were hesitating to ____ on technical direction.
• Brandon: I was an outspoken ____ back then. I assumed management brought in another coordinator who wouldn't deliver on infrastructure promises.

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