Struppelhoff: Red Hawk Uses Google Gemini to Draft Project Backlogs
Matt Struppelhoff · AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture · Apr 22, 2025 · at 18:54
Matt Struppelhoff, CEO of Red Hawk Technologies, describes how his software consultancy uses Google Gemini within their enterprise workflow.
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“For example, if a client gives me a what they would might consider a fairly detailed spec, I'm thinking about creating X. I'll submit that in through Gemini through our paid account so that it's all, you know, compartmentalized. It's not going out there into the ether, but I'll ask it to produce, just take a first pass at producing features and user stories with descriptions and acceptance criteria. As if we're going to take that documentation and drop it right into a backlog and do a scrum agile project.”
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