Meeting Title: Element Project Weekly Deck Sync Date: 2026-02-12 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Brylle Girang
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1 00:00:44.130 ⇒ 00:00:45.190 Brylle Girang: Hey.
2 00:00:46.810 ⇒ 00:00:47.740 Mustafa Raja: Hey, how are you?
3 00:00:48.200 ⇒ 00:00:51.230 Brylle Girang: Hello! I am drowning.
4 00:00:52.800 ⇒ 00:01:01.079 Brylle Girang: I got pulled into a lot of calls where I don’t know what the hell is happening, so… trying to get it together. How are you doing?
5 00:01:01.520 ⇒ 00:01:18.399 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’m doing good. So… so for the, just to give you a gist of, what happens with these weekly decks, these are presented to clients on, on our weekly progress, right? So, element, what it’s going to have is, it’s going to have some sort of,
6 00:01:18.670 ⇒ 00:01:24.850 Mustafa Raja: A Gantt chart. And then we would have a weekly plan, and then,
7 00:01:25.290 ⇒ 00:01:42.919 Mustafa Raja: you know, this meeting that we are going to have, we’re going to present some, some… or key wins. We’re going to present, key wins that we got over the week, and then, what are we planning for next week, right? So, do you have any, any sort of experience with GitHub?
8 00:01:43.950 ⇒ 00:01:51.369 Brylle Girang: A little bit of experience, yes. I’m currently using Cursor, if that’s where we’re going.
9 00:01:51.370 ⇒ 00:02:03.640 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah, yeah, let me see if you are in our organization at all or not. Because, what I… because what we do is, we have all of the transcripts over the week.
10 00:02:03.640 ⇒ 00:02:04.190 Brylle Girang: Yeah.
11 00:02:04.550 ⇒ 00:02:21.749 Mustafa Raja: In our GitHub repo, right? So what you could ask Cursor is, you know, what did we do over the week with the client element, right? And then it’s just going to generate… it’s just going to generate a copy of this sort of deck for you, for the weekly updates, that you can just, you know.
12 00:02:21.860 ⇒ 00:02:40.890 Mustafa Raja: improve based on, your understanding, with your, engineers that are working on Element, and then that should be able to, finalize the deck, right? Let me see… are you in, GitHub, organization already or not?
13 00:02:41.140 ⇒ 00:02:43.069 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah, I’m already here.
14 00:02:43.070 ⇒ 00:02:45.869 Mustafa Raja: Okay, so, do you have GitHub Desktop?
15 00:02:46.920 ⇒ 00:02:50.489 Brylle Girang: GitHub Desktop. Let me double-check that one.
16 00:02:52.710 ⇒ 00:02:58.119 Brylle Girang: Not yet, but what I can do is, right now, I can access cursor. Let me just share my screen here.
17 00:02:58.120 ⇒ 00:02:59.030 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
18 00:02:59.030 ⇒ 00:03:06.530 Brylle Girang: I was actually trying to… See if there’s an easier way for me to update the deck.
19 00:03:07.790 ⇒ 00:03:08.310 Mustafa Raja: Bye.
20 00:03:09.740 ⇒ 00:03:11.250 Brylle Girang: So you were, you were saying…
21 00:03:11.250 ⇒ 00:03:21.139 Mustafa Raja: I already have the… I have the repo, right? So… Yeah. That’s nice. Okay, what I would do is… can you go back to the deck that you already have?
22 00:03:21.140 ⇒ 00:03:21.880 Brylle Girang: Okay.
23 00:03:22.370 ⇒ 00:03:24.289 Brylle Girang: Let me just share…
24 00:03:24.320 ⇒ 00:03:25.940 Mustafa Raja: color screen.
25 00:03:28.470 ⇒ 00:03:29.570 Brylle Girang: Here we go.
26 00:03:30.930 ⇒ 00:03:35.529 Mustafa Raja: Okay, let’s look at the slide. So this is for last week, right? Am I correct?
27 00:03:35.530 ⇒ 00:03:40.559 Brylle Girang: I do think that this is for January 12 to 18? Might be a…
28 00:03:40.560 ⇒ 00:03:45.850 Mustafa Raja: Okay, let’s go through it, then. Let’s go through it. I want to take a look at the slides on, you know…
29 00:03:46.360 ⇒ 00:03:50.799 Mustafa Raja: what they’re saying. Let’s go… yeah, keep going, keep going.
30 00:03:54.500 ⇒ 00:04:02.330 Mustafa Raja: Okay. Okay, I’m going to share with you how I format this, and then you can…
31 00:04:02.740 ⇒ 00:04:05.510 Mustafa Raja: See which one works for you, you know?
32 00:04:05.510 ⇒ 00:04:06.210 Brylle Girang: Okay.
33 00:04:07.570 ⇒ 00:04:13.600 Mustafa Raja: So, let me just grab… do you know who’s working on Element? I might not have…
34 00:04:13.800 ⇒ 00:04:18.679 Brylle Girang: Utam specifically asked me to help out on this, so… I think his…
35 00:04:18.680 ⇒ 00:04:20.369 Mustafa Raja: Like, who’s the engineer on there?
36 00:04:20.779 ⇒ 00:04:21.769 Brylle Girang: Oh…
37 00:04:24.779 ⇒ 00:04:26.889 Brylle Girang: That one, I actually don’t know yet.
38 00:04:26.890 ⇒ 00:04:36.439 Mustafa Raja: Okay, okay, yeah, no worries. Yeah, let’s open this one. I sent you a link in Zoom chat.
39 00:04:36.440 ⇒ 00:04:37.280 Brylle Girang: Okay.
40 00:04:41.520 ⇒ 00:04:45.209 Mustafa Raja: So this is one of the, decks that I created for the clients.
41 00:04:45.520 ⇒ 00:05:10.020 Mustafa Raja: You know, for a weekly or, you know, what we are going to do next. So this client, if you would go back in the second slide, we are working on two different streams, right? So you would see… you’d see it separated between two streams. One is product analytics, and the other one is data platform and analytics, right? So these are two different streams that are working, that we are working on, right? So, if you would go next.
42 00:05:11.960 ⇒ 00:05:26.460 Mustafa Raja: These are the key wins for, one of the streams data platform, right? And then I’m just mentioning what we were able to achieve this week that we consider a key win, right? So, if you would go next.
43 00:05:27.070 ⇒ 00:05:45.280 Mustafa Raja: skip these, these are just, you know, displaying that we did that. And this is for the other, stream, right? So, if you would want to, I think for Element, we only have only one work stream, so you could follow this format, you know, key wins, and then showing up those wins.
44 00:05:45.420 ⇒ 00:05:50.040 Mustafa Raja: And then, if you’d go next… the contract.
45 00:05:51.240 ⇒ 00:06:05.470 Mustafa Raja: The next one? Yeah, and then at the end, we have some risks and mitigations, so if we have any blockers from their side, you know, we would mention these here. And then, if we would go next, there should be another slide.
46 00:06:05.470 ⇒ 00:06:06.730 Brylle Girang: This is the last one.
47 00:06:06.730 ⇒ 00:06:27.299 Mustafa Raja: This is the last one? Okay. Then they would… and if they would ask for… if they would have some new ad hoc requests that were not already in the plan, we would, put those in a new request section in the same tabular format, right? And then… and then we’ll just conclude that. So, you could… you could take this deck.
48 00:06:27.310 ⇒ 00:06:39.290 Mustafa Raja: convert this into a PDF, or download it as a PDF, and then give it to Cursor, and then ask it to generate, you know, a copy for, Element for this week.
49 00:06:39.770 ⇒ 00:06:46.890 Mustafa Raja: Gotcha. Or do the same using Element deck that you already have. It’s your choice, your personal preference.
50 00:06:47.100 ⇒ 00:06:54.369 Brylle Girang: Okay, and then you’re actually just using the transcripts to, like, update the things that are going on here, is that right?
51 00:06:54.370 ⇒ 00:07:05.200 Mustafa Raja: Yes, but I do already have a lot of context on the project, because I’m one of the engineers for default, this deck that I’m showing you, I’m an engineer on there too, right? So…
52 00:07:05.690 ⇒ 00:07:12.200 Mustafa Raja: So I’ll, so I will have context on what’s going on with other engineers, too.
53 00:07:12.420 ⇒ 00:07:24.800 Mustafa Raja: And then, once I have this, I also meet them weekly regarding the progress on whatever the streams we have, right? So you might also want to set that up, you know?
54 00:07:24.910 ⇒ 00:07:28.399 Mustafa Raja: Okay. A weekly, sync.
55 00:07:28.890 ⇒ 00:07:30.570 Mustafa Raja: With the engineers, you know?
56 00:07:31.000 ⇒ 00:07:38.619 Mustafa Raja: Get yourself up to speed, and see if you are… if you are with… if you are up to speed with Gantt chart, if you are following… following…
57 00:07:54.150 ⇒ 00:08:07.979 Brylle Girang: by day, week by week, etc. Do you think that this is something that’s standard? Like, is this recurring? Every week you’re doing the same thing? Every day you’re doing the same thing? Or is it more flexible that we won’t be able to create a list?
58 00:08:11.570 ⇒ 00:08:15.799 Mustafa Raja: Sorry… can you say that again? I think my connection dropped.
59 00:08:16.010 ⇒ 00:08:17.229 Brylle Girang: Okay, can you hear me now?
60 00:08:17.230 ⇒ 00:08:18.260 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, I can hear you.
61 00:08:18.260 ⇒ 00:08:32.309 Brylle Girang: So, basically, I want to better understand what REPs do, day by day, week by week. Would you say that most of the things that you’re doing are recurring, and that, in a way, that what you’re doing this week would
62 00:08:32.490 ⇒ 00:08:35.510 Brylle Girang: Most probably be the same things that you’re going to do next.
63 00:08:35.510 ⇒ 00:08:39.959 Mustafa Raja: Yes, one recurring thing would be this, deck creation.
64 00:08:40.100 ⇒ 00:08:43.329 Mustafa Raja: Did that create? And then, I…
65 00:08:43.990 ⇒ 00:09:03.049 Mustafa Raja: I don’t think there’s any other recurring thing. Other than that, what we are doing is we are just making sure that we have all of the context somewhere, where if anyone would want to onboard, we could point them to that resource for them to capture the whole image of the project.
66 00:09:03.050 ⇒ 00:09:05.950 Brylle Girang: Okay. Okay, okay, that makes sense.
67 00:09:06.310 ⇒ 00:09:17.620 Brylle Girang: And then, I don’t know if you have any context on why this is the case, but in this weekly updates deck, this is formatted in a way that I think every week, it’s just being added.
68 00:09:17.620 ⇒ 00:09:18.509 Mustafa Raja: Into the spine.
69 00:09:19.090 ⇒ 00:09:23.379 Brylle Girang: Is it, like… is it, like, a conscious choice, or…
70 00:09:23.380 ⇒ 00:09:27.460 Mustafa Raja: It’s your choice. Let me show you what I do.
71 00:09:27.960 ⇒ 00:09:36.159 Mustafa Raja: Let me show you what I’ll do with this. So, I’m sharing, I’m sharing another link with you.
72 00:09:36.160 ⇒ 00:09:36.870 Brylle Girang: Okay.
73 00:09:38.670 ⇒ 00:09:45.080 Mustafa Raja: So this is my drive, and, you would see that I have, separate PowerPoints for each week.
74 00:09:46.040 ⇒ 00:09:49.259 Brylle Girang: Let me try accessing that again.
75 00:09:49.660 ⇒ 00:09:50.230 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
76 00:09:51.720 ⇒ 00:09:54.030 Brylle Girang: No, I used the wrong email.
77 00:09:55.060 ⇒ 00:09:55.395 Mustafa Raja: Nobody.
78 00:09:55.730 ⇒ 00:09:57.030 Brylle Girang: Gotcha, okay.
79 00:09:57.030 ⇒ 00:10:03.779 Mustafa Raja: So, yeah, so this is… I think this is just a matter of personal preference at that point, right?
80 00:10:05.270 ⇒ 00:10:08.000 Brylle Girang: Gotcha. Okay, this makes sense.
81 00:10:14.320 ⇒ 00:10:15.190 Brylle Girang: Okay.
82 00:10:21.370 ⇒ 00:10:34.239 Mustafa Raja: Now, what you could do is you could just, generate the whole PDF with Element, right? The element deck, and then give it to Cursor, and then ask Cursor, you know.
83 00:10:34.330 ⇒ 00:10:50.010 Mustafa Raja: add whatever we did this week in this deck. And it’s going to do that. You might have to create the slides, it’s just going to give you all of the, text based on… with each slide, right? And then you’ll have to create the slides and place the text in, right?
84 00:10:50.320 ⇒ 00:10:51.820 Brylle Girang: Yeah. Okay.
85 00:10:51.820 ⇒ 00:10:58.250 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, but I use it, and it’s able to generate good copies, so you’ll actually like it.
86 00:10:58.470 ⇒ 00:11:02.360 Brylle Girang: Gotcha. And then, are you the one presenting this to the client weekly?
87 00:11:03.210 ⇒ 00:11:15.550 Mustafa Raja: No, so we have CSOs, right? So, this Element project that you’re working on, the deck you’re working on, this is going to be presented to Element by the CSO of that project.
88 00:11:15.550 ⇒ 00:11:16.590 Brylle Girang: Gotcha.
89 00:11:16.590 ⇒ 00:11:21.230 Mustafa Raja: So… I… I don’t know who that is…
90 00:11:21.230 ⇒ 00:11:22.450 Brylle Girang: That would be Autumn.
91 00:11:22.950 ⇒ 00:11:24.020 Mustafa Raja: Okay, yeah.
92 00:11:24.500 ⇒ 00:11:25.310 Brylle Girang: Gotcha.
93 00:11:26.660 ⇒ 00:11:35.049 Mustafa Raja: I think, the EPion element is Ashwini. I’m not sure, I’m not 100% sure, but I think it is Ashwini.
94 00:11:35.270 ⇒ 00:11:37.020 Brylle Girang: Gotcha. Alright.
95 00:11:37.280 ⇒ 00:11:42.850 Brylle Girang: Okay, I got everything for now. Mustafa, thank you so much. I might reach out to you if.
96 00:11:42.850 ⇒ 00:11:44.439 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, cushions,
97 00:11:44.440 ⇒ 00:11:45.649 Brylle Girang: Please bear with me, okay?
98 00:11:45.650 ⇒ 00:11:47.060 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah.
99 00:11:47.060 ⇒ 00:11:47.639 Brylle Girang: so much.
100 00:11:47.640 ⇒ 00:11:49.540 Mustafa Raja: Thank you, have a good day. Bye.