Be Impactful

When and How to say no
Internal presentation I made at Shopify earlier this year.

Earlier this year, I remade a presentation that I did in 2019 at the RnD Summit in Ottawa. RnD Summit is an internal event where all RnD meet have we present content to each other. Something like a technical conference, internal to Shopify.

I wanted to share this publicly because I think that, while this was targeted at data scientists at Shopify, it is pretty accurate for a lot of data scientists out there. So without too much bell and whistle, here it is.

Before… Here is a little Shopify dictionary for some of the terms.

Merchants: Shopify main customers, Those are the merchants that use Shopify to do business.
Fecta: Group of key craft that steer and build a product. Usually includes a mix of Product, Engineering, UX, Data, Marketing and support.
GSD: GSD (or Get Shit Done) is the internal framework on how we do and ship project
Vault Internal tool/intranet where all the GSD project lives
Burst in person events (since we are all remote) where we meet to deliver projects and build human connections. PM Product Manager

Also, small disclaimer, Given I wanted to share this video publicly, I made sure to build a completely fake example in the communication section of the video. The numbers and chronology are completely random.

Here you go: