Map a user's journey into activities, steps, and tasks, then organize the work by priority and release. The skill helps teams define a usable first version, place backlog items in context, and spot missing parts of the experience.
- Organize a flat backlog around the user journey
- Define the scope of a minimum viable product
- Split work into releases that each deliver usable value
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Analyze public reviews, app stores, and forums to identify unmet customer needs, competitor weaknesses, and reasons for switching products. Receive short customer quotes with source links, recurring themes, and hypotheses to validate in interviews.
- Finding recurring complaints about competitors
- Preparing hypotheses before customer interviews
- Gathering quoted evidence for sales comparison guides
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Turn product management notes or workshop material into a structured skill, or update an existing one. Follow a workflow covering duplicate checks, drafting, validation, catalog updates, and optional ZIP packaging for upload.
- Turning workshop notes into a product management skill
- Updating a skill while preserving repository standards
- Checking structure and metadata before committing
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Plan the first 90 days as a VP or CPO product leader through organizational interviews, validation, and evidence-based action. Build a people assessment, identify unwritten priorities, and choose three to five changes grounded in what you learn.
- Planning the first 90 days in a product leadership role
- Preparing questions for the CEO before accepting a CPO offer
- Validating organizational findings before making changes
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Evaluating a price increase for new customers
- Estimating revenue from a new premium tier
- Assessing an annual prepayment discount
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Quickly look up SaaS financial metrics, including recurring revenue and customer acquisition costs. Get definitions, formulas, benchmarks, and warning signs, plus reminders of which metrics matter when reviewing features, pricing, acquisition channels, or business health.
- Looking up NRR formulas and benchmarks
- Preparing a SaaS metrics sheet for a business review
- Checking metrics before expanding an acquisition channel
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Define the market position of a new product
- Sharpen differentiation against specific competitors
- Align product, sales, and marketing teams
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Turn research notes and discussions into a PRD, a product requirements document for development teams. Connect customer problems, target users, proposed solutions, and success metrics, while documenting acceptance criteria, excluded work, dependencies, and unresolved questions.
- Writing requirements for a major new feature
- Turning discovery findings into an engineering handoff
- Aligning teams on scope and success metrics
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Turn product management notes, frameworks, or rough ideas into a complete SKILL.md draft. Guided questions help choose the skill type, narrow its purpose, and organize instructions, examples, and common mistakes into the required structure.
- Turning workshop notes into an agent skill
- Choosing the right structure for a new skill
- Formalizing a product management framework
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Map a market from the buyer's perspective, covering segments, established companies, alternatives, and emerging entrants. Produce a sourced overview that distinguishes facts from assumptions and tests whether apparent gaps represent opportunities or weak demand.
- Mapping a market before deciding to enter
- Comparing competitors with existing alternatives
- Testing whether an unserved segment has demand
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Design workflows where specialized AI agents share recurring product management tasks. Define each agent’s role, required information, handoffs, and human review points, then create monitoring and evaluation plans for the overall workflow.
- Designing parallel agents for weekly competitive research
- Defining agent roles and information handoffs
- Planning quality checks and cost monitoring
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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.
- Assessing whether flat revenue signals product decline
- Comparing extension, replacement, and retirement
- Checking whether pricing or sales channels are the real issue
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Create a customer journey map showing actions, contact points, emotions, success measures, and responsible teams at each stage. Use it to identify frustrating experiences, compare improvement opportunities, and build a shared view across departments.
- Reviewing the customer experience from discovery to continued use
- Investigating where customers drop out
- Aligning marketing, sales, product, and support teams
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Clarifying the expected outcome of a major initiative
- Designing small experiments before full development
- Defining measurable success criteria and deadlines
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Decide whether to build a feature this quarter
- Compare feature ideas by financial return and strategic value
- Explain roadmap priorities to stakeholders
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Framing the problem behind a new product idea
- Aligning a cross-functional team on assumptions
- Choosing which hypothesis to test first
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Work through up to five adaptive questions to clarify your product’s customers, unmet needs, category, benefits, and competitive differences. Turn the answers and supporting evidence into a positioning statement and a concise summary for stakeholder review.
- Clarify vague product messaging before launch
- Reposition an existing product
- Agree on target customers and competitive differences
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Deciding whether to retire a legacy feature
- Sizing the effort for a product retirement
- Checking commitments before announcing retirement
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Reviewing risks before adding an idea to the roadmap
- Choosing tests before committing a team and budget
- Identifying external forces that could disrupt a product
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Reframing a feature request as a customer problem
- Connecting product goals to solutions and experiments
- Explaining why one solution was chosen over alternatives
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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.
- Quarterly reviews of external business conditions
- Checking assumptions after regulatory changes
- Connecting external changes to product plans
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
Compare current competitor evidence with a previous research snapshot and report only meaningful changes, with sources and dates. Flag sales comparison materials, positioning, pricing analysis, or roadmap assumptions that need updating during recurring monitoring.
- Checking monthly changes against a previous competitor report
- Tracking competitors' pricing and plan changes
- Finding sales comparison materials that need updating
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Guide a product retirement through six phases, from the initial decision to closure and review. Scale the process to its impact, coordinate supporting skills, and identify missing steps when a retirement is already underway.
- Planning a product retirement from decision to closure
- Preparing sales and support before a customer announcement
- Finding skipped steps in a troubled retirement
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026
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.
- Uncovering needs behind feature requests
- Organizing findings from customer interviews
- Revisiting product positioning around customer goals
deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills☆ 7.6KUpdated Oct 16, 2026