Results for “planning”

This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a feature", "create PRD", "interview me about requirements", "define stories", "write a spec", "break down feature into tasks", "create implementation plan", "help me scope this feature", "what questions should I answer", or discusses feature planning. Covers the PRD interview process, spec structure, story atomization, and 4-phase workflow from idea to Dex tasks.

The meta-framework for how a company runs — the connective tissue between all C-suite roles. Covers operating system selection (EOS, Scaling Up, OKR-native, hybrid), accountability charts, scorecards, meeting pulse, issue resolution, and 90-day rocks. Use when setting up company operations, selecting a management framework, designing meeting rhythms, building accountability systems, implementing OKRs, or when user mentions EOS, Scaling Up, operating system, L10 meetings, rocks, scorecard, accountability chart, or quarterly planning.

The meta-framework for how a company runs — the connective tissue between all C-suite roles. Covers operating system selection (EOS, Scaling Up, OKR-native, hybrid), accountability charts, scorecards, meeting pulse, issue resolution, and 90-day rocks. Use when setting up company operations, selecting a management framework, designing meeting rhythms, building accountability systems, implementing OKRs, or when user mentions EOS, Scaling Up, operating system, L10 meetings, rocks, scorecard, accountability chart, or quarterly planning.

Expert in residential hollow space detection, hidden room discovery, and safe room planning. Helps map house dimensions, identify anomalies suggesting hidden spaces, and safely explore potential voids. Knowledge of architectural history, construction methods, and non-destructive investigation techniques. Activate on "panic room", "hidden room", "secret room", "hollow space", "house mapping", "find hidden space", "room dimensions", "hidden door", "false wall", "priest hole", "prohibition era", "safe room". NOT for illegal entry, structural modifications without permits, or bypassing security systems.

Create a detailed, step-by-step implementation plan for a feature or project. Load when the user asks to plan a feature, create a technical roadmap, break down a PRD into tasks, design an implementation strategy, or sequence engineering work. Also triggers on "how should we build this", "implementation plan for", "technical breakdown", "task list for", or any request to turn a high-level requirement into a concrete execution plan. Supports phased rollouts, architecture-first, and MVP-focused planning.

Senior Project Manager for enterprise software, SaaS, and digital transformation projects. Specializes in portfolio management, quantitative risk analysis, resource optimization, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting. Uses advanced methodologies including EMV analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, WSJF prioritization, and multi-dimensional health scoring. Use when a user needs help with project plans, project status reports, risk assessments, resource allocation, project roadmaps, milestone tracking, team capacity planning, portfolio health reviews, program management, or executive-level project reporting — especially for enterprise-scale initiatives with multiple workstreams, complex dependencies, or multi-million dollar budgets.

Turn a generic product tour into a buyer-specific demo that only shows what they told you hurts. Maps every feature you plan to show to a problem the buyer actually stated, writes the "so what" for each moment, and flags the trap of feature-dumping before you fall into it. Built for B2B sales teams, customizable to your product and your discovery. Trigger on "build a demo script", "prep for the demo", "what should I show", "map features to pain", "stop me from feature dumping", or any pre-demo planning pass.

When the user wants to plan a content strategy, decide what content to create, or figure out what topics to cover. Also use when the user mentions "content strategy," "what should I write about," "content ideas," "blog strategy," "topic clusters," "content planning," "editorial calendar," "content marketing," "content roadmap," "what content should I create," "blog topics," "content pillars," or "I don't know what to write." Use this whenever someone needs help deciding what content to produce, not just writing it. For writing individual pieces, see copywriting. For SEO-specific audits, see seo-audit. For social media content specifically, see social.

Use when delivery work needs structuring into epics — defining a new epic, refining or superseding an existing one, or decomposing a PRD's requirements into durable delivery structures that feed issue decomposition. Writes docs/product/epics/NN-<slug>.md (durable, id-stable, superseded-never-deleted), each epic tracing to the JTBD ids it serves and the PRD requirement IDs it bundles. In the A-Team pipeline this is a definition-phase output ("the Epics"). Do not use for full roadmap/portfolio planning across quarters (deliberately not ported), for delivery tickets or acceptance criteria (ticket-writer), or to create or revise jobs (jobs-to-be-done).

Expert product strategy advisor for Senior PMs. Use this skill — proactively and without waiting to be asked — whenever defining a product vision, setting quarterly OKRs, building a roadmap, choosing between competing bets, entering a new product area, or when stakeholders disagree on direction. Also triggers for: "what should we prioritize", "we need a north star", "how do we choose between X and Y", "roadmap conflict", "what are our bets this quarter", "strategy alignment", "choosing what NOT to build", "three bets with trade-offs", "stakeholder misalignment on direction", "product direction for next quarter", "OKR planning". Produces a decision-focused strategy doc: North Star metric, Opportunity Tree, three bets with explicit trade-offs (including do nothing), and a recommended bet with its key assumption.

Use when asked to fix, build, refactor, review, verify, or release software and the work is non-trivial — including delivering a change request (issue, ticket, or request) from intake through planning, gates, implementation, review, verified PR, and authorized post-merge release. neckbeard routes the change through framing, discovery, design, implementation, review, verification, delivery, and learning — choosing the smallest *safe* intervention, proving it at the real delivery boundary, and leaving an inspectable evidence ledger. For change-request / issue-to-PR work, conditionally loads a 9-phase journey with gates, delivery packet, and lifecycle integration. Composes specialist catalog skills rather than replacing them. Not a persona, not a '10x developer' prompt, not a LOC-minimizer. The journey is not loaded for plain fixes, refactors, or reviews that lack an issue/ticket trajectory.

When the user needs a comprehensive marketing plan for a client, a company they advise, or their own product. Also use when the user mentions "marketing plan," "growth plan," "GTM plan," "go-to-market plan," "AARRR plan," "90-day marketing plan," "12-month marketing roadmap," "fractional CMO plan," or "fCMO plan." Generates an exhaustive 13-section plan structured by AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue), customized to the client's current budget, team, and stage, mapped to future funding milestones, cross-referenced with the 139-idea marketing-ideas library and an embedded 17-section current-state audit rubric, with a full marketing operations stack showing which skills and MCP/API integrations execute each part. Outputs a Notion-paste-ready markdown document. For positioning and ICP context before planning, see product-marketing. For stage-specific deep work, see onboarding, signup, emails, referrals, pricing.

Expert Socratic discovery skill for exploring ideas, architecture decisions, and technical design before writing any code. Use this skill — proactively and always first — when requirements are vague, when the user is debating between technical approaches, when the problem is unclear, or when a design decision could have significant architectural consequences. Triggers on: "should we use X or Y", "help me think through", "I'm not sure how to approach this", "what's the best architecture for", "trade-offs between", "design before I code", "let's think through this", "I have an idea", "how should I structure", "help me design", "I want to build X but not sure how", "what approach would you recommend", "is this the right way to". Produces a validated design doc with 2-3 implementation options, trade-offs, and a recommendation. Always use before planning when the approach is not yet locked.

Checks how well a Linear cycle is prepared. Reports per-person load in working days against available days, tickets with no estimate, tickets nobody is assigned to, oversized tickets that need splitting, work that did not finish last cycle, on-call rotation cost, and how groomed the backlog behind the cycle is. Invoke when the user says "cyclotic", "cyclotic prep", "cyclotic prep next", "cyclotic review", "cyclotic init", "cyclotic configure", "cyclotic for" a person's name, "cyclotic show cards", "cyclotic list tickets", "cyclotic explain" a person's name, or adds "-v" or "verbose" to any of those. Also invoke when the user asks whether a cycle or sprint is ready, who is over or under capacity, what carried over from last cycle, which tickets still need estimates, how the backlog looks going into planning, what is in the cycle and at what sizes, or how one person's load adds up. Read-only against Linear.

Reviews a product document (PRD, spec, design brief) BEFORE implementation to surface holes — undefined edge cases, missing states, policy gaps — by attacking what the document is SILENT about (things unwritten, and things written only for the happy path). Acts as a strict "sign-off manager," ruling Approve / Conditional / Reject and producing a polite, forwardable question list. Works for planners/PMs (self-review before sharing), engineers (blocking questions before coding), and designers (screen states with no mockup). Use whenever the user wants a spec/PRD/plan/brief checked for readiness or gaps, or says "review this spec", "find holes in this PRD", "poke holes in this", "is this plan good to build?", "can I start implementing this?", "what states/edge cases am I missing?", "what should I ask the PM before coding?", "run devil", or pastes/links a planning document and asks whether it's ready to act on. Do NOT use it to: write or draft a new spec, summarize or translate a document, estimate/break down tic