@deanpeters
Product manager & former coder who, given enough coffee, connects others, makes good things happen & creates order out of your software development chaos.
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Assess an industry's five competitive forces using documented evidence, including AI substitutes and supplier dependencies. Identify where profits concentrate and what pressures margins, then connect those findings to a market entry or strategy decision.
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.
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.
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.
Choose a small validation experiment based on your hypothesis, risks, time, and resources. Compare five methods, from technical checks to user interaction tests, and define pass, fail, and learning criteria before investing in a larger build.
Assess how your product team uses AI across five capabilities, from shared context to team review practices. Identify whether work is simply faster or fundamentally redesigned, and choose which capability to strengthen next.
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.
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.
Build a concise sales card for competing against one rival using public evidence. Organize talking points, questions, pricing, and claims to avoid, with sources, dates, and labels distinguishing facts, inferences, and assumptions.
Assess SaaS business health across growth, customer retention, profitability per customer, and cash efficiency. Use available metrics to build a stage-aware scorecard, identify warning signs, and prioritize improvements for business reviews or fundraising preparation.
Research a company, industry, or competitor group through web search and seven analytical lenses. Produce structured, cited findings on business models, products, competition, and strategic signals for product decisions and further analysis.
Build a company research brief from public sources, covering executive statements, product strategy, organizational practices, and transformation initiatives. Use dated sources to prepare for interviews, understand competitors, assess potential partners, or explore market entry.
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.
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.
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.
Turn a competitive or market question into a focused research approach through three adaptive questions. Get recommendations for information sources, review frequency, and executing skills, with reasons tailored to the decision and available time.
Plan competitive and market research across public news, financial records, statistics, patents, hiring, and operational signals. Separate observations from inferences and cross-check independent evidence to support market sizing, roadmap choices, pricing, and sales materials.
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.
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.
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.
Assess customer acquisition channels using acquisition costs, lifetime customer value, payback time, retention, and growth capacity. Compare channels and receive recommendations to increase spending, improve performance, pause activity, or continue with a spending cap.
Prepare customer interviews to investigate problems, churn, or new product ideas. Clarify research goals, participants, and access constraints, then choose a method and create a tailored plan with questions, follow-ups, bias checks, and criteria for useful findings.
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.
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