Understand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude and horizon thinking. Use when diagnosing scope, time-horizon, or leadership-level gaps.
executive-onboarding-playbook
executive-onboarding-playbook is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Plan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path. Use when entering a new executive product role and avoiding premature change.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What executive-onboarding-playbook does
Structure the first 90 days of a VP or CPO transition as a diagnostic process, not an execution sprint. The single most common failure in senior product leadership transitions is acting before understanding — changing structures, replacing people, or announcing strategy before building the evidence base that makes those decisions defensible.
Installation
Add executive-onboarding-playbook to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for executive-onboarding-playbook is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Consultant Mindset
- Unwritten Strategy
- The Body of Evidence
- People Assessment: Two Categories
- Phase 0: Before Day 1
- Application
- Phase 1: Diagnose (Month 1)
- Phase 2: Validate (Month 2)
- Phase 3: Act with Evidence (Month 3)
When to use it
Reach for executive-onboarding-playbook when you want productivity help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does executive-onboarding-playbook do?
- Plan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path. Use when entering a new executive product role and avoiding premature change.
- How do I install executive-onboarding-playbook?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is executive-onboarding-playbook free to use?
- executive-onboarding-playbook is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Where does executive-onboarding-playbook come from?
- executive-onboarding-playbook ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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