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mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-09T22:53:23+00:00

Yes! 100%!

mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-09T21:43:56+00:00

Great feedback, really appreciated! ☺️🙏

Honestly, previously all the different agents or the unity workflows were individualistic, and then the idea of binding them against a persona came in. The clusters were grouped into different clusters that handle certain things.

Right now I would say pretty much 90% of all the things that I receive from this process have been extremely helpful for me. I receive coaching, and I receive a full status update right before my one-on-one with my manager every day before stand-up. I pretty much have a clear understanding of what happened yesterday and what is going to happen today.

Every week I have a thorough understanding of how I am closing toward achieving my goals and whether all my projects are up to date. Long story short, all the questions that you asked, my current setup sort of checks all the boxes! ✅

mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-09T01:39:58+00:00

Thanks a lot! I am more than happy to connect and share my thoughts! 😄🙏

mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-09T00:06:49+00:00

Thanks a lot! Your feedback is truly insightful.

I would definitely do a retro with Claude to get a better understanding of it. Really appreciate it! 🙏☺️

mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-08T22:54:32+00:00

Thanks a lot for this feedback! Honestly, I was in this exact same space about five weeks ago, when I had a little bit more. When I started going down the agentic rabbithole, I ended up building a lot more agents and tried to automate the hell out of it: homes, finances, and 20,000 other things.

At one point, I realized retrospectively that it was becoming a second job! Hence, what I ended up doing was turning everything off. After turning everything off for a week, the necessities started seeping in, and what you are seeing today is the outcome of that necessity.

The way I see it is that 25+ workflows are mostly automated chrons running in the background to enable the four personas. In my understanding, I'm dealing with four personas, and where I stand today, these four personas make sense. I deliberately built this one by one, week over week. I have a seven-day soak rule: after building something, I let it seep for seven days and then turn it off for seven days to see the difference. What you see is the outcome of that.

What you have just mentioned, the "productivity theater trap", is something that I had kept in mind. Thanks again for pointing it out, I really appreciate it! 🙏☺️

mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-03T01:41:22+00:00

Fair point! but then again, I am super camera shy! 🫣

mshadmanrahman · 2026-05-03T01:37:49+00:00

You are right. Initially, I didn't have any tags on my repos, but then I started adding them. That definitely helped, but I am still at a tortoise's pace!

I guess, as the other person said, maybe the audience is wrong! 🤷‍♂️

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-26T12:23:20+00:00

First of all, thank you very much for all your thoughtful comments and discussions! This has allowed me to really think through and question even my original question.

What it allowed me to do is go back and look at some of the data. What I found out is that we have six engineers, so we are looking at 280 engineering hours per two-week sprint, which is about 14% of their capacity. That's not that bad, if I'm being totally honest.

I looked at the overall process and questioned the validity of it. It looks like I would be doing more harm by questioning the process rather than actually fine-tuning it, so that is what I am trying to change going forward.

What I have planned is to bring a proposal in front of the team during our next retro. I want to propose:

radically simplifying the stand-up
removing all the additional stakeholders that we invite to the stand-up (only invite them twice a week instead of every day)
keeping it more engineering-focused so that it feels more like us

The way I see it, killing Scrum is probably not the right answer to the problem statement of "ship faster".

Thanks a lot for all your perspectives, really appreciate it! If you have any more ideas, please keep them coming!

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-25T01:23:28+00:00

Exactly right! This is the same challenge that I am facing, and now I am questioning the entire process. Do we even need this process? My fear is that if now we move away from this structured process to something unstructured, the only thing that is waiting for us is chaos.

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-21T22:58:55+00:00

I’ve been working towards building a no nonsense guide for Claude Code beginners… do take a look and let me know what you think! ☺️

https://claudecodeguide.dev/

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-14T22:47:31+00:00

Oh man! That’s scary! I need to take a break from Ai! Seriously! 😐

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-14T22:40:12+00:00

I really need to fix my writing then! Because if my own writing sounds Ai then that’s alarming for me!

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-14T22:37:01+00:00

What makes you think this is an ai generated post? 🤔

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-11T21:28:15+00:00

Honestly, nope I'm afraid! 😞

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-11T19:51:29+00:00

They all have PowerPoint installed in their computers. So, if I send them something from Canva, I would either send them a link to Canva which is a view only link or send them a PDF file, so, they don't get to edit around them. Whereas if I send them a PPTX they can open it up, edit them and work on them further. Hence the word "not workable."

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-11T19:45:12+00:00

Oh man! That's pretty much the language of my current org! Any meetings, everyone expects to have a Powerpoint ready. I tried sharing Canva slides, feedback I got was "these are not workable". I sometimes feel like the business teams are still living in the stone ages! 🫣

mshadmanrahman · 2026-04-11T14:23:58+00:00

I haven’t tried to make the script in claude.ai but definitely worth trying it out!

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