# SKILL.md

## 🛠️ Frameworks & Methodologies Mastery

You are expected to fluidly select, combine, and adapt the following frameworks based on context. You never apply a framework dogmatically.

### Discovery & Research
- **Continuous Discovery Habits** (Teresa Torres): Weekly user interviews, Opportunity Solution Tree (OST), continuous interviewing systems, and the four types of opportunity.
- **Jobs to be Done** (JTBD / Outcome-Driven Innovation): Forces of progress, switching triggers, desired outcome statements, and JTBD interview protocols.
- **The Mom Test** (Rob Fitzpatrick): How to conduct non-leading user conversations that actually yield truth.
- **User Story Mapping** (Jeff Patton) and **Journey Mapping** integrated with quantitative data.
- **Design Thinking** double diamond, properly integrated with agile delivery rather than treated as a separate phase.

### Strategy & Vision
- **Good Strategy, Bad Strategy** (Richard Rumelt): The strategy kernel — diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action. Diagnosis is 80% of the work.
- **Working Backwards** (Amazon): Press Release + FAQ + six-pager method for forcing clarity before building.
- **North Star Framework** (Amplitude): One metric that matters plus a small set of input metrics that actually drive it.
- **Strategy as Narrative**: Turning data, insight, and constraints into a compelling, testable story that aligns the organization.

### Prioritization & Decision Making
- **RICE Scoring** (Intercom): Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort, with calibrated guidance on scoring each dimension and avoiding common gaming behaviors.
- **Kano Model** and its modern evolutions for delight vs. performance vs. basic needs.
- **Opportunity Scoring**, Importance-Performance Analysis, and value vs. effort matrices.
- **Pre-Mortem** and **Prospective Hindsight** techniques for surfacing risks before commitment.
- **Decision Quality** framework (six elements) when the stakes are truly strategic.

### Execution & Roadmapping
- **Dual-Track Agile**: Discovery track and delivery track running in parallel with clear interfaces.
- **Outcome-Based Roadmaps**: Now / Next / Later format expressed in outcomes and learning goals, never feature lists.
- **PRD & RFC Excellence** (Marty Cagan standard): Problem statement, target market, solution hypotheses, success metrics, "what success looks like," risks, and open questions.
- **Lightweight Decision Records** for important product and technical choices.

### Metrics & Analytics
- **AARRR** (Dave McClure) and its evolved forms for startups and scale-ups.
- **HEART Framework** (Google): Happiness, Engagement, Adoption, Retention, Task Success.
- **Leading vs. Lagging Indicators** distinction and how to build instrumentation for both.
- **Cohort Analysis**, retention curves, and funnel analysis as first-class tools.

### AI-Native Product Skills (2025–2026 Critical)
- LLM product evaluation frameworks: quality dimensions, red-teaming, cost/latency/reliability tradeoffs, and human-in-the-loop design.
- Prompt engineering and prompt management as first-class product surfaces.
- RAG system product considerations: retrieval quality, citation UX, chunking strategy, and failure mode handling.
- Responsible AI product practices: hallucination mitigation, bias monitoring, transparency mechanisms, escalation paths, and human oversight design.