Skills map
Every step of making a product, and the skill that covers it.
The first High Turtle pack follows a product from first idea to sunset. This map shows each activity in the process and which skill handles it, so you can see the whole pack and spot what is missing.
- Activities
- 36
- Skills
- 32
- Phases
- 6
- Tested so far
- 3
Every activity has a skill. All 32 are drafted; 3 have been run on a real product problem so far and are marked Tested. The rest are in testing.
Discover
Find problems worth solving.
5 activities covered
- Mine feedback for demand
feature-signal-finder - Build a customer evidence bank
customer-evidence-research - Plan and synthesize user research
user-research-plan - Competitive and market analysis
competitive-analysis - Size the opportunity
opportunity-sizing
Define
Decide what to build and how to judge it.
7 activities covered
- Frame the problem and jobs-to-be-done
problem-framing-jtbd - Set strategy, goals and OKRs
strategy-and-okrs - Prioritize opportunities
prioritization-framework - Write the PRD
prd-development - Define success metrics
success-metrics-review - Review the spec for gaps
feature-spec-review - Check cross-cutting requirements
prd-cross-cutting-review
Design and plan
Make it buildable and measurable.
6 activities covered
- Specify telemetry
telemetry-requirements - Design the AI quality evaluation
eval-golden-set-builder - UX design and critique
ux-design-review - Plan dependencies, risks and technical alignment
dependency-risk-plan - Sprint and capacity planning
sprint-planning - Communicate the roadmap
roadmap-builder
Build and validate
Prove it works for real users.
5 activities covered
- Design experiments and A/B tests
experiment-design - Run quality evaluations
eval-run-analysiseval-golden-set-builder - Run an early-access or beta program
beta-program-plan - Write acceptance criteria and QA plan
acceptance-criteria-qa-plan - Check release readiness
feature-readiness-checklist
Launch
Get it to customers and explain it.
5 activities covered
- Plan release communications
release-communications-plan - Positioning, messaging and go-to-market plan
launch-gtm-plan - Pricing and packaging
pricing-and-packaging - Sales, support and docs enablement
enablement-plan - Prepare the go/no-go decision
decision-memofeature-readiness-checklist
Grow and operate
Learn, improve, retire.
5 activities covered
- Review post-launch metrics
success-metrics-review - Monitor ongoing feedback
feature-signal-finder - Run a retrospective or post-mortem
retro-postmortem - Plan iteration, deprecation and sunset
sunset-and-iteration-plan - Update stakeholders
stakeholder-update
Across every phase
Work that never belongs to one stage.
3 activities covered
- Coach PMs and review their work
pm-leadership-coach - Write decision memos and prepare executive reviews
decision-memo - Manage stakeholders and cross-team dependencies
stakeholder-updatedependency-risk-plan
Skills by phase
Most skills serve more than one phase.
| Skill | Discover | Define | Design and plan | Build and validate | Launch | Grow and operate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PM leadership coachpm-leadership-coach | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Customer evidence researchcustomer-evidence-research | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Feature signal finderfeature-signal-finder | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
PRD developmentprd-development | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Success metrics reviewsuccess-metrics-review | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Feature spec reviewfeature-spec-review | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
PRD cross cutting reviewprd-cross-cutting-review | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Telemetry requirementstelemetry-requirements | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Eval golden set buildereval-golden-set-builder | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Feature readiness checklistfeature-readiness-checklist | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Release communications planrelease-communications-plan | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Competitive analysiscompetitive-analysis | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Opportunity sizingopportunity-sizing | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
User research planuser-research-plan | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Problem framing JTBD Testedproblem-framing-jtbd | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Strategy and OKRsstrategy-and-okrs | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Prioritization framework Testedprioritization-framework | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
UX design reviewux-design-review | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Dependency risk plandependency-risk-plan | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Sprint planningsprint-planning | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Roadmap builderroadmap-builder | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Experiment design Testedexperiment-design | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Eval run analysiseval-run-analysis | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Acceptance criteria QA planacceptance-criteria-qa-plan | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Beta program planbeta-program-plan | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Launch GTM planlaunch-gtm-plan | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Pricing and packagingpricing-and-packaging | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Enablement planenablement-plan | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Decision memodecision-memo | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Retro postmortemretro-postmortem | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Sunset and iteration plansunset-and-iteration-plan | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Stakeholder updatestakeholder-update | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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