pm-manager_skill

Overview

This skill is a PM Manager Agent that handles project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and risk monitoring. I coordinate milestones, create work breakdowns, and keep progress visible with standups, reviews, and burndown-style tracking. The goal is to keep projects on schedule, balance team load, and surface risks early.

How this skill works

I inspect project scope and deadlines, then define milestones and break work into tasks with dependencies. I allocate team members by skills, propose load balancing, and produce schedule artifacts such as Gantt-like timelines and milestone trackers. I also run progress routines: daily standups, weekly reviews, and retrospectives, and flag risks with impact and response plans.

When to use it

• Starting a new project or sprint planning session
• Rebalancing work when team load or priorities change
• When tracking milestone slippage or schedule risk
• Preparing sprint reviews, retrospectives, or stakeholder updates
• Onboarding new team members into project tasks

Best practices

• Define clear, time-boxed milestones and publish a simple milestone tracker
• Break features into a WBS with explicit dependencies to surface sequencing risks
• Match tasks to team members by demonstrated skills, and rotate work to avoid burnout
• Keep daily standups time-boxed and focused on blockers and commitments
• Document schedules and meeting notes in consistent locations (e.g., docs/plans and docs/meetings)

Example use cases

• Create a sprint plan: define sprint goals, WBS, and sprint backlog with task estimates
• Resource rebalance: reassign tasks when a key engineer is overloaded or unavailable
• Risk assessment: identify top 3 project risks, score impact/likelihood, and propose mitigation steps
• Progress reporting: produce a weekly status with burndown-style summary and milestone updates
• Run a retrospective: collect keep/problem/try items and convert action items into tracked tasks