Day 4 (Thursday) move of a Design Sprint that produces the planning artifact for the day. Output covers the prototype role plan (Maker, Stitcher, Writer, Asset Collector,…
Creates an opportunity solution tree mapping desired outcomes to opportunities and potential solutions.
Analyze survey results into actionable PM insights. Produces persona segmentation, hypothesis validation status, thematic clustering of open-text responses, statistical confidence…
Turns any source artifact (spec, discovery, research, GTM plan, experiment results, retro, or raw notes) into one canonical master document plus a set of audience-tailored…
Converts a strategy, option, or contested claim into the specific conditions that would have to be true for it to be the best choice, rates each condition's confidence, and…
Converts a conditional-probability or base-rate question into natural frequencies over a concrete population (for example 9 of 1000) to compute the correct posterior and expose…
Produces a dialectical estimate that improves a single committed number by polling the inner crowd, make a first estimate, assume it is wrong and list why, read whether that…
Produces a private strategic preparation document for the user before a meeting that matters. Captures stakes, stakeholder positions and reads, ranked desired outcomes, key…
Day 1 afternoon move of a Foundation Sprint. Converts the morning's Basics frame into a defensible strategic position by scoring differentiator candidates against…
Generates professional presentations from a JSON deck specification using 18 slide types with dark/light variants, content-to-layout decision logic, and calibrated character…
Documents the reasoning behind design decisions including alternatives considered, trade-offs evaluated, and principles applied.
Produces async communication to stakeholders, primarily non-attendees and secondarily some attendees who want a reference.
Guides contributors from a PM skill idea to a complete Skill Implementation Packet aligned with pm-skills conventions.
Pre-sprint diagnostic that determines whether a team should run a Design Sprint now, postpone it, or do prerequisite work first.
Generates ideas the way silent parallel brainwriting does, producing several independent idea streams that build on each other without anchoring on the first voice, then…
Specifies requirements for an analytics dashboard including metrics, visualizations, filters, and data sources.
Builds an abstraction ladder that moves a problem up ("why / to what end?") and down ("how / what specifically?") to locate the right altitude to work at, then marks one rung as…
Synthesizes user research interviews into actionable insights, patterns, and recommendations. Use after conducting user interviews, customer calls, or usability sessions to…
Produces an annotated reasoning trace that reconstructs how a conclusion was reached, from the observable data, to the data actually selected, to the meaning and assumptions…
Audits the boundary judgments that silently define a problem frame. For each of four sources, who benefits, who decides, whose knowledge counts, who has standing, it contrasts the…
Pre-sprint brief that locks challenge, sprint questions, team and role assignments, customer recruiting plan, prototype medium, interview format, logistics, and success criteria…
Generates an evidence-calibrated product or marketing persona using the canonical v2.5 output contract.
Documents the results of a time-boxed technical or design exploration (spike). Use after completing a spike to capture learnings, findings, and recommendations for the team.
Produce a customer journey map covering stages, touchpoints, emotional curve, pain points, moments of truth, and opportunity annotations.
Scores completed OKR sets at cycle close with KR-level scoring per the canonical OKR type enum (committed | aspirational | learning | operational_health | compliance_or_safety),…
Creates an Architecture Decision Record following the Nygard format to document significant technical decisions, their context, and consequences.
Produces a prioritized, evidence-graded Thinking Plan that diagnoses which thinking frameworks a situation actually needs - the dominant cognitive job, a short sequence of the…
Day 5 (Friday) sprint-closing move of a Design Sprint that produces the bundled Friday artifact covering per-customer interview observations, best quotes, scorecard grid (sprint…
Converts a stuck trade-off into a contradiction to dissolve rather than a compromise to settle for. Names the two conflicting requirements, states an implementation-free Ideal…
Guides a contributor from a workflow idea to a complete Workflow Implementation Packet (draft workflow file, draft workflow command, cross-cutting update checklist) in a staging…
Builds a signed causal loop diagram by closing the feedback loops in a situation, labeling each loop reinforcing (R) or balancing (B) with its link polarities, and reading likely…
Run a repo-wide cross-cutting governance audit via the pm-skill-auditor sub-agent. Dispatches natively on Claude Code with the pm-skills plugin (invokes @agent-pm-skill-auditor);…
Day 2 (Tuesday) move of a Design Sprint that structures lightning demos and the four-step independent solution sketch protocol (Notes, Ideas, Crazy 8s, Solution Sketch).
Produces a structured after-action review by comparing what was expected against what actually happened, diagnosing why the gaps occurred, and converting them into specific owned…
Evaluates rival causal explanations of a single case by typing each piece of within-case evidence by its diagnosticity (hoop, smoking-gun, straw-in-the-wind, doubly-decisive…
Creates a structured lessons learned entry for organizational memory. Use after projects, incidents, or significant learnings to capture knowledge for future teams and initiatives.
Produces a Fermi decomposition worksheet that estimates an unknown numeric quantity by factoring it into a chain of order-of-magnitude sub-estimates, guessing each to within a…
Produces an issue tree that decomposes one big, ambiguous question top-down into a mutually-exclusive, collectively-exhaustive (MECE) set of smaller sub-questions, branch by…
Run an ordered sequence of pm-skills against one input, pausing for go/no-go and stopping on a failed or empty step.
Defines a testable hypothesis with clear success metrics and validation approach. Use when forming assumptions to test, designing experiments, or aligning team on what success…
Documents backlog refinement session outcomes including stories refined, estimates, questions raised, and decisions made.
Evaluates a decision or idea through several deliberately separated lenses in turn (facts, upside, risks, intuition, alternatives, process) so that no single mode dominates, then…
Produces an adversarial critique by constructing the strongest case against a proposal or thesis (the best objections an intelligent adversary would raise), then judging which…
Creates a comprehensive Product Requirements Document that aligns stakeholders on what to build, why, and how success will be measured.
Checks whether a decision has genuine minority dissent or only smooth surface consensus, identifies who actually holds a contrary view, and plans how to elicit and protect real…
Run adversarial review on a PM artifact via the pm-critic sub-agent. Dispatches natively on Claude Code with the pm-skills plugin (invokes @agent-pm-critic); on non-Claude clients…
Produces a negotiation preparation map that separates both sides' positions from their underlying interests, anchors the accept-or-walk decision on a named, valued best…
Creates a Jobs to be Done canvas capturing the functional, emotional, and social dimensions of a customer job.
Produces a four-layer matrix (litany, system, worldview, myth) of the current 'used future' beside a reconstructed preferred future per layer, anchored by a deliberately changed…
Compose a writing instruction from voice, tone, style, and format axis entries. Use when you need a precise writing instruction for a specific combination of voice, tone, style,…
Documents edge cases, error states, boundary conditions, and recovery paths for a feature. Use during specification to ensure comprehensive coverage, or during QA planning to…
Validates internet access, compares the locally installed pm-skills version against the latest public release, and updates local files with conflict-aware overwrite-or-skip…
Generates a new problem frame from theme analysis of the broader context, an abductive standpoint stated as approach it as if it were Y that redefines what the problem is and…
Pre-sprint diagnostic that determines whether a team should run a Foundation Sprint now, postpone it, or do prerequisite work first.
Run applicable prioritization frameworks (RICE, ICE, MoSCoW, Weighted Scoring, Kano) against a list of features or initiatives.
Produces an anti-goals register by assuming a design succeeds at scale, narrating the near-future in which that success harms third parties (including non-users) and is exploited…
Generates three off-pattern framework analyses of a topic by drawing frameworks at random, applying each regardless of fit, and harvesting the non-obvious angles the unexpected…
Creates a structured competitive analysis comparing features, positioning, and strategy across competitors.
Produces a veiled-decision comparison that decides a values trade-off as if the decider had an equal chance of being any affected party, under an explicit decision rule, then…
Creates a clear problem framing document with user impact, business context, and success criteria. Use when starting a new initiative, realigning a drifted project, or…