From starting a job to starting a BI tool migration

So Tim, set the scene, you joined Get Ground, you said ten months ago. Migrated July, you weren't there too long. You then became like, I think the only lead analytics engineer at Get Ground. You inherited a lot of tech debt and you still made the decision to migrate. So I guess, like, could you say how you got there a bit? Yeah. Of course. I think probably setting the scene is fair. We had a number of issues, I think, across the business. When I first joined, I started with running a Google Form survey across all the heads of departments and and a number of the other stakeholders in the business as well around how they felt data was going at GetGround, what they felt that they they needed, what they thought that they were being given so far. And how much confidence they had in that data especially was kind of a key thing that came out of that survey. I think that there were areas that they were confident in and areas that I felt were probably feeling a little bit unloved. Maybe there'd been some product changes that had changed the way that we were now calculating those things and then trying to recalculate those in the warehouse or in our data architecture in general. But there were some inconsistencies there. And I think the biggest problem was really just the amount of data assets that we had when we started. Yeah. Nothing had really ever been formally closed down, and different team members, even in the same teams, potentially were using out of date or different assets for different for the same job. Yeah. Probably sets the scene. Yeah. I would add that the warehouse in general when I when I joined was in really good stead, it had quite a lot of work done to it by some predecessors of mine. Yep. But it was much more of a case of just accrual of assets, think, in our BI tool especially that was that was hindering us, and then also anticipating the change that we knew was coming with the way that we were changing our pricing model, the way that we were changing a few of our major parts of our product just made me feel a little bit conscious that we needed to clean that up quick.