Product Management

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name: product-management
description: Expertise in product management lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Covers requirements gathering, user story creation, prioritization, and product strategy. Use this skill for product planning, writing PRDs, defining MVPs, or competitive analysis.
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# Product Management Skill

## Description
Expertise in product management lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Covers requirements gathering, user story creation, prioritization, and product strategy.

## Capabilities

### 1. Requirements Engineering
- **User Interviews & Surveys**: Techniques for gathering qualitative and quantitative data.
- **Problem Definition**: Using "How Might We" statements to frame problems.
- **PRD Writing**: Structuring comprehensive Product Requirement Documents.
- **Functional vs. Non-Functional**: Distinguishing between what the system does and how it behaves (performance, security).

### 2. Feature Prioritization
- **RICE Score**: Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort.
- **MoSCoW Method**: Must have, Should have, Could have, Won't have.
- **Kano Model**: Delighters, Performance, Basic expectations.
- **WSJF**: Weighted Shortest Job First (for Agile).

### 3. User Story Mapping & Definition
- **User Story Format**: "As a <role>, I want <feature>, so that <benefit>."
- **Acceptance Criteria**: Conditions that a software product must satisfy to be accepted by a user.
- **INVEST Principle**: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable.

### 4. Product Strategy & Roadmap
- **Lean Canvas**: 1-page business plan.
- **Value Proposition Design**: Matching product features to user pains and gains.
- **Roadmap Planning**: Now, Next, Later frameworks.

## Templates

### User Story Template
```markdown
**Title**: [Short description]
**User Story**:
As a [user persona],
I want [action/feature],
So that [benefit/value].

**Acceptance Criteria**:
1. [Criterion 1]
2. [Criterion 2]
3. [Criterion 3]

**Priority**: [High/Medium/Low]
**Notes**: [Additional context]
```

### PRD Structure
1.  **Introduction**: Background, Goals, Scope.
2.  **User Personas**: Details about target users.
3.  **User Stories**: List of features aimed at users.
4.  **Functional Requirements**: Specific system behaviors.
5.  **Non-Functional Requirements**: Performance, Security, etc.
6.  **UI/UX Guidelines**: Wireframes or references.
7.  **Analytics**: Metrics to track success.

## Best Practices
- **Focus on Outcomes, Not Outputs**: Measure success by value delivered, not features shipped.
- **Fall in Love with the Problem**: Don't get attached to a specific solution too early.
- **Validate Early**: Use prototypes and mockups to test assumptions before building key features.