Planning, sales, accounting, legal, and project management (4.2K skills)
Prepare customer-facing teams before announcing a product or feature retirement. Create support FAQs, honest replacement comparisons, objection responses, and escalation guidance, with the scope adjusted from a short support note to a broader training pack.
Evaluate whether a product feature deserves investment by comparing revenue or retention benefits with development and ongoing costs. Receive calculations, payback estimates, and recommendations that account for strategic value and uncertain assumptions.
Guide a product team from a problem hypothesis through customer interviews, research synthesis, and solution experiments. Use six structured phases to gather evidence, compare options, and decide whether to build, change direction, or stop.
Turn stakeholder requests into measurable goals, customer problems, possible solutions, and experiments. Through guided discussion, compare feasibility, expected impact, and customer fit to choose a proof of concept: a small test of a proposed solution.
Organize competitive analysis across six areas, from market structure to competitors’ future plans. Choose the steps relevant to a business decision and turn findings into comparison matrices, sales reference sheets, positioning responses, and threat assessments.
Compare business growth options across existing and new products and markets. The skill connects each option to documented demand signals, rates its risk, and recommends an order of action with the assumption that could change it.
Create a clear statement of your product’s market position using Geoffrey Moore’s framework. Define the target customer, unmet need, product category, customer benefit, and meaningful differences from the alternatives buyers actually consider.
Assess how political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal changes could affect a product or market. Summarize external opportunities, threats, and recommended actions to support market entry decisions, strategy reviews, and longer-term product planning.
Plan and document a small, temporary experiment to test one risky product assumption before development. Choose a suitable prototype approach and define participants, pass and fail criteria, timing, ownership, and a disposal plan.
Break a large feature into smaller user stories, each describing a useful change for users. Apply nine splitting patterns, define acceptance criteria, and assess which work to deliver first, defer, or remove.
Analyze incoming Slack messages, emails, or escalations before replying. Separate the explicit request from the outcome behind it, clarify requirements and success criteria, and develop a reply or counterproposal while clearly labeling assumptions.
Review a product or AI idea across ten internal and external risk areas. Identify useful tests and measurements, separate immediate actions from ongoing monitoring, and produce a prioritized risk register with concrete next steps.
Evaluate a proposed pricing change by modeling revenue per customer, conversion, cancellations, and customer acquisition cost recovery. Compare scenarios and receive a recommendation to implement, test, modify, or hold the change, with supporting calculations and risks.
Assess whether to retire a product or feature by reviewing customers, revenue, commitments, and migration options. Get a reasoned recommendation to proceed, wait, or maintain it with limited investment, plus an appropriate effort level.
Work through eight canvas sections to clarify a business problem, target users, desired outcomes, and possible solutions. Turn assumptions into testable hypotheses and choose the smallest experiment to investigate the most important uncertainty before development.
Assess a product that has stopped growing and compare extending it, replacing it, or retiring it. Guided questions separate customer demand from cost and technology pressures, producing a reasoned recommendation that may also favor continued operation without investment.
Turn a major product initiative into a testable hypothesis with a clear target user and expected outcome. Define small experiments, measurable success criteria, and an evaluation timeframe before committing to full development.
Research key competitors and produce cited profiles, a comparison table, and implications for a product decision. Separate facts from inferences and assumptions, highlight evidence quality, and create a consistent baseline for later comparisons.
Understand the shift from product manager to Director through scope and planning horizon. Identify role-transition difficulties and translate broad company priorities into product responsibilities and clearer direction for teams.
Draft customer announcements for retiring a product, feature, or plan. Match the message length and communication stages to the impact, explaining the reason, key dates, customer disruption, support, and next steps, including cases with no replacement.
Work through the move from product manager to Director with questions tailored to your stage. Get practical recommendations for promotion preparation, interviews, early leadership challenges, or persistent difficulties in the role.
Use three adaptive questions to identify where product growth is stuck. The skill recommends a path through new customer segments, geographies, distribution channels, or products, then suggests a low-cost first experiment and a common trap to watch for.
Compare a previous PESTEL analysis of political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors with current evidence. Identify meaningful changes and broken assumptions, then summarize their implications for strategy and product plans with sources.
Structure customer research around what people want to accomplish, the difficulties they face, and the benefits they seek. Explore practical tasks, social perceptions, and emotions to clarify unmet needs and guide product positioning or priorities.