Product Management

Use one modular product-management skill to frame decisions, select methods, and coordinate bounded handoffs.

product-management is the portable, consultative entry point for product work that crosses more than one decision. It helps a consumer move from an unclear request to a bounded problem, an explicit method path, a verifiable result, and a deliberate handoff.

It is one skill with optional modules, not a collection of framework-specific skills. Modules are selected only when their trigger and minimum inputs are present. The canonical contract remains the Product Management skill reference.

Start with the right path

• Read the PM lifecycle to orient a complete journey.
• Use module selection when the request is ambiguous or compound.
• Consult the framework reference policy before using a scoring or discovery method.
• Review composition examples to see how Product Management hands off to existing skills.

What it does

The skill:

• frames the problem, user, outcome, context, and evidence;
• classifies the stage and decision shape;
• selects the smallest sufficient module and companion skill path;
• keeps facts, assumptions, estimates, and unknowns separate;
• verifies the result, uncertainty, human decisions, and next handoff.

The skill does not approve investment, change a roadmap, create tasks, promise delivery dates, or replace AletheIA’s macro governance. Those boundaries are part of the contract, not optional caveats.

Public guide versus canonical contract

This area explains how to use the family. It intentionally does not reproduce the full contract, module instructions, or method profiles. The canonical skills/product-management/SKILL.md remains the authority for execution behavior and metadata.