docs(blog): add SuMS blog post from the prototyper PM perspective - #119
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Companion to docs/blog-sums-trial.md, told from the PM/builder side: what agentic coding actually compressed, why security-early set the schedule, and where this approach should not be pointed. Refs #94 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| I'm a product manager at GovTech, posted into MOE's Digital Experience Division. I also write the code. In about four weeks I built SuMS, the survey management system that now runs at sums.digital.moe.gov.sg and replaced three legacy tools: Wizvision, ATFM and MIMS. | ||
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| That sentence is the one people repeat back to me. One PM, coding agents, four weeks, against a legacy system that cost roughly $300K a year just to keep alive. It's accurate. It's also the part of the story that teaches the least. |
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Summary
Adds
docs/blog-sums-prototyper-pm.md— the SuMS blog post written by @guangshinhaha as himself, for publication on https://transform.gov.sg/.This is the companion to the existing
docs/blog-sums-trial.md(Natasha's SWE-perspective post, #90). Same trial, the other side of it: what agentic coding actually compressed, why bringing security in early set the schedule, and where this approach should not be pointed.Follows the same convention as the existing post — YAML frontmatter (
title,author,date) indocs/.Closes #94
Review focus
The draft ends with a reviewer note (marked with an HTML comment, to be removed before publishing):
Someone needs to confirm which number we stand behind. Procurement will notice the difference.
Not included
trials/tree listing inREADME.md— that listing is already partial (it omitsreflections.mdandswe-impact.md), and this post lives indocs/alongside the other blog post, not intrials/. Happy to add a docs index in a follow-up if wanted.🤖 Generated with Claude Code