Product Manager Skills by Dean Peters
workshop-facilitation
Facilitate workshop sessions in a one-step, multi-turn flow. Use when an interactive skill needs consistent pacing, options, and progress tracking.
vp-cpo-readiness-advisor
Guide the transition to VP or CPO across preparing, interviewing, landing, and recalibrating. Use when executive product scope is changing fast.
user-story-splitting
Break a large story or epic into smaller deliverable stories using proven split patterns. Use when backlog items are too big for estimation, sequencing, or inde…
user-story-mapping-workshop
Run a user story mapping workshop with adaptive questions and a structured map output. Use when you need backbone activities, tasks, and release slices for a wo…
user-story-mapping
Create a user story map that lays out activities, steps, tasks, and release slices. Use when planning a workflow, backlog, or MVP around the user journey.
user-story
Create user stories with Mike Cohn format and Gherkin acceptance criteria. Use when turning user needs into development-ready work with clear outcomes and testa…
tam-sam-som-calculator
Calculate TAM, SAM, and SOM with explicit assumptions, methods, and caveats. Use when sizing a market for a product idea, business case, or executive review.
storyboard
Create a six-frame storyboard that shows a user's journey from problem to solution. Use when you need a fast narrative for alignment, concept reviews, or demos.
skill-authoring-workflow
Turn raw PM content into a compliant, publish-ready skill. Use when creating or updating a repo skill without breaking standards.
saas-revenue-growth-metrics
Calculate SaaS revenue, retention, and growth metrics. Use when diagnosing momentum, churn, expansion, or product-market-fit signals.
saas-economics-efficiency-metrics
Evaluate SaaS unit economics and capital efficiency. Use when deciding whether the business can scale efficiently or needs correction.
roadmap-planning
Plan a strategic roadmap across prioritization, epic definition, stakeholder alignment, and sequencing. Use when turning strategy into a release plan that teams…
recommendation-canvas
Evaluate an AI product idea across outcomes, hypotheses, risks, and positioning. Use when deciding whether an AI solution deserves investment or recommendation.
proto-persona
Create a proto-persona from current research, market signals, and team knowledge. Use when you need a working customer profile before deeper validation.
product-strategy-session
Run an end-to-end product strategy session across positioning, discovery, and roadmap planning. Use when a team needs validated direction before committing to e…
problem-statement
Write a user-centered problem statement with who is blocked, what they are trying to do, why it matters, and how it feels. Use when framing discovery, prioritiz…
problem-framing-canvas
Guide teams through MITRE's Problem Framing Canvas. Use when you need a clearer problem statement before jumping to solutions.
prioritization-advisor
Choose a prioritization framework based on stage, team context, and stakeholder needs. Use when deciding between RICE, ICE, value/effort, or another scoring app…
press-release
Write an Amazon-style press release that defines customer value before building. Use when aligning stakeholders on a new product, feature, or strategic bet.
prd-development
Build a structured PRD that connects problem, users, solution, and success criteria. Use when turning discovery notes into an engineering-ready document for a m…
positioning-workshop
Run a positioning workshop that surfaces target customer, unmet need, category, benefits, and differentiation. Use when your product messaging feels fuzzy, gene…
positioning-statement
Create a Geoffrey Moore-style positioning statement. Use when clarifying who you serve, what problem you solve, your category, and why you're different from alt…
pol-probe-advisor
Select the right Proof of Life (PoL) probe based on hypothesis, risk, and resources. Use this to match the validation method to the real learning goal, not tool…
pol-probe
Define a Proof of Life probe to test a risky hypothesis cheaply. Use when you need harsh truth before building real product.
pestel-analysis
Analyze political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal forces. Use when external market shifts could materially affect a product, roadmap,…
opportunity-solution-tree
Build an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests. Use when a stakeholder request needs problem framing before you decide …
lean-ux-canvas
Guide teams through Lean UX Canvas v2. Use when framing a business problem, surfacing assumptions, and defining what to learn next.
jobs-to-be-done
Uncover customer jobs, pains, and gains in a structured JTBD format. Use when clarifying unmet needs, repositioning a product, or improving discovery and messag…
finance-metrics-quickref
Look up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast. Use when you need a quick metric definition, formula, or benchmark during analysis.
finance-based-pricing-advisor
Evaluate pricing changes using ARPU, conversion, churn risk, NRR, and payback. Use when deciding whether a pricing move should ship.
feature-investment-advisor
Evaluate feature investments using revenue impact, cost structure, ROI, and strategy. Use when deciding whether a feature deserves investment.
executive-onboarding-playbook
Plan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path. Use when entering a new executive product role and avoiding premature change.
epic-hypothesis
Frame an epic as a testable hypothesis with target user, expected outcome, and validation method. Use when defining a major initiative before roadmap, discovery…
epic-breakdown-advisor
Break down epics into user stories with Humanizing Work split patterns. Use when a backlog item is too large to estimate, sequence, or deliver safely.
eol-message
Write a clear, empathetic EOL announcement with rationale, customer impact, and next steps. Use when retiring a product, feature, or plan without creating avoid…
discovery-process
Run a full discovery cycle from problem hypothesis to validated solution. Use when a team needs a structured path through framing, interviews, synthesis, and ex…
discovery-interview-prep
Plan customer discovery interviews with the right goal, segment, constraints, and method. Use when preparing interviews for problem validation, churn research, …
director-readiness-advisor
Guide the PM-to-Director transition across preparing, interviewing, landing, and recalibrating. Use when leadership scope is changing and you need practical coa…
customer-journey-mapping-workshop
Run a customer journey mapping workshop with adaptive questions and outputs. Use when you need to map stages, actions, emotions, pain points, and opportunities …
customer-journey-map
Create a customer journey map across stages, touchpoints, actions, emotions, and metrics. Use when diagnosing a broken experience or aligning a team on the full…
context-engineering-advisor
Diagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering. Use when an AI workflow feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer reliably.
company-research
Create a company research brief with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context. Use when preparing for interviews, competitive analysis, partnerships,…
business-health-diagnostic
Diagnose SaaS business health across growth, retention, efficiency, and capital. Use when preparing a business review or prioritizing urgent fixes.
altitude-horizon-framework
Understand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude and horizon thinking. Use when diagnosing scope, time-horizon, or leadership-level gaps.
ai-shaped-readiness-advisor
Assess whether your product work is AI-first or AI-shaped. Use when evaluating AI maturity and choosing the next team capability to build.
acquisition-channel-advisor
Evaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability. Use when deciding whether to scale, test, or kill a growth channel.