Claude Code was coaching me on my tasks as a PM. Now, it’s even creating them for me. TLDR: I’d been using Claude Code for prototyping. Then I started collaborating with it on product strategy docs. What’s new is that I’m using Claude Code to consult about the order of operations and tasks I need to do. I’m doing this all in a side project as an experiment*:
  1. I have a directory on my computer that’s a bunch of markdown files (user research transcripts, product strategy docs, opportunity assessments). I edit it with Cursor (geeky, I know, but it’s just a text editor)
  2. I broke down my idea into smaller phases in a Notion kanban (as I normally do)
  3. I noticed myself consulting a lot with Claude Code on what the phases should be, so I decided to stop copy-pasting and create the Kanban in markdown too!
  4. I opened the Cursor folder in Obsidian and installed the kanban plugin (geeky, but not that bad). I created a board that’s super easy for Claude Code to read because it’s just a markdown file on my hard drive.
  5. Now Claude Code has access to:
    • Product strategy docs
    • User research
    • Code
    • Task list 🆕 - now I can have super productive conversations about “what order should I go in”
  6. I then realized, why am I creating these tasks manually? So I asked Claude Code to take my opportunity assessments/strategy and create phases and initiatives in my kanban (so now it can also write to my kanban)
I’m not trying to be geeky, I swear! Every time I notice myself copying and pasting with AI I try to see how I can cut myself out as the middle man. *The million dollar question is how to adapt this for working as a team (without everyone learning git!) I tried Notion MCP but it was clunky, slow, and made a lot of mistakes 😭 If you’re successfully collaborating this way with a team, I’d love to learn from you (I read and reply to every email).