Questions

- Righpoint
    
    - Can you describe how Rightpoint likes to position itself for clients? Partner? Vendor? Most-valuable partner?
    - What's the culture like at Rightpoint? How does this concept of "intrapeneur" play out?
    - What's the pitch process like?
- Solutions architect
    
    - Most important quality of a solutions architect to succeed at Rightpoint?
    - What's the typical team structure for a project?
    - How many projects is a solutions architect typically responsible for?
    - How my freedom does a solutions architect have?
- Developers
    
    - How much opportunity is given to developers to train and study for certification? - What's the covid-19 plan? Returning to offices soon? Permanently remote possible?
    
Preparation

- What Episerver commerce does well
    
    - Flexibility to be shaped as you see fit
        
        - Can totally work around it
        - Extend it
        - Pick pieces here and there
        - Can stand alone for smaller solutions
        - Can be integrated relatively easily with larger enterprises
    - Clear that Episerver is paying attention to it, improving it tremendously
- Weaknesses of Episerver commerce
    
    - Flexibility - not a Shopify solution a business stakeholder can setup
    - Relatively few plugins
    - Old UI
- Most important for team
    
    - Communication
        
        - Used to say communication, but that's too generic and unclear
        - Ability to actively listen to clients and team members
            
            - Understanding as others speak
            - Asking clarifying questions
            - Repeating to ensure understanding
            - Accurately "go and do" based on what was said
    - Wise risk-taking
        
        - Don't be afraid to fail
        - Know how to recover if you do
      
    
 
Notes:

- Drew
    
    - Premier platinum partner with epi
    - Bigger opportunities coming in
    - Will love DXP
    - Thomas john commerce practice lead
- Keith
    
    - Aniket on keith's team, digops
    - Aniket is keith's direct report
    - Post implementation support, like Electrolux
    - Joseph Lee is head of digops, keith on his team
    - All of qa reports up through
    - Dev team is 40 devs, half in us half in india
    - Hasn't worked on epi
    - Mostly Sharepoint dev in early days
    - Genpact in the backend transformation busniess, were part of GE, spin off
    - Bought rightpoint as digital experience company
    - Good SA
        
        - Raport with clients, have it, build it
        - Comfortable with change
        - Comfortable speaking to technology generally, not specifics, comfortable
    - Fully remote definitely possible
- Joseph
    
    - Leads digops unit
    - Managed services--providing production support
    - Lots of freedom to decide where to work, what to do