product-manager_skill

Overview

This skill provides practical product management guidance for defining vision, building outcome-focused roadmaps, and running user-centric discovery. It codifies frameworks and workflows—visioning, prioritization (RICE/Kano), PRD creation, task decomposition, and sprint execution—so you can move from hypothesis to shippable work. Use it to keep teams aligned around customer value and fast, testable delivery.

How this skill works

The skill inspects goals, user problems, and business context to recommend a strategy (Now/Next/Later) using JTBD and prioritization frameworks like RICE and Kano. It generates structured artifacts: strategic PRDs, user stories with acceptance criteria, and a decomposed backlog (epics → stories → tasks) following a maximum-granularity rule. It enforces process rules: mandatory PRD template, vertical slices, explicit tests, and tasks sized for 2–8 hour work items.

When to use it

• Defining product vision or aligning to OKRs
• Planning a strategic roadmap (Now/Next/Later)
• Creating or reviewing a PRD or user stories
• Prioritizing feature candidates using RICE/Kano
• Decomposing a document or feature into actionable tasks
• Preparing for sprint planning or acceptance testing

Best practices

• Focus on outcome over output—define success metrics before features
• Validate problems with user interviews before writing requirements
• Prioritize ruthlessly; say no to low-impact work
• Decompose vertically into end-to-end slices, not horizontal layers
• Make tests explicit: each feature includes separate testing tasks
• Keep tasks 2–8 hours and independently testable

Example use cases

• Draft a strategic PRD that ties a new feature to measurable OKRs
• Score and rank a list of product ideas using RICE and Kano
• Break a PRD into epics, stories, and 2–8 hour tasks with ACs
• Review a BA spec and suggest simplifications and missing edge cases
• Run discovery: JTBD interviews, hypothesis framing, and success metrics