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Skill #17 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Bilingual Reasoning Research

Bilingual (English + Chinese) research engine that separates documented fact from inference. Given only a topic, run an English sweep and a native-Chinese sweep in parallel, tag every claim in a ledger as [SOURCED-EN], [SOURCED-ZH], [INFERRED], [ORIGINAL], or [CONTESTED], hostile-counter-search every inferred or original claim, and produce a Divergence Register (what Chinese coverage emphasises that English does not, and vice versa), a Gap Register with novelty scores, and a max-800-word tagged…

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/research/bilingual-reasoning-research

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Skill #16 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Ask Before Building

Turn an under-specified feature, change, refactor, or workflow into a decision-complete build brief. Do not use when the requirements are already sufficient or the user wants immediate implementation.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/product-thinking/ask-before-building

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Skill #15 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Anti Mom Test

Audit and rewrite customer discovery interview questions so they pass the Mom Test: past behavior over future intent, their life over your idea, specifics over hypotheticals. Not for large-scale survey design or usability testing.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/product-thinking/anti-mom-test

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Skill #14 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Vanity Metric Audit

Separate actionable metrics from vanity metrics in any dashboard, metrics review, or investor update, then rebuild reporting around cohort behavior. Not for choosing analytics tools or implementing tracking.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/vanity-metric-audit

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Skill #13 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Smoke Test Launcher

Design and launch demand smoke tests — fake-door pages, preorders, waitlists, and paid-ad probes — with the pass/fail threshold and minimum sample size signed before launch, then debrief results honestly. Use before building anything to test demand, when a landing page or waitlist experiment is planned, or when the user says smoke test, fake door, test demand before building, should we build it, or validate interest.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/smoke-test-launcher

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Skill #12 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Small Batches

Audit roadmaps, backlogs, and release plans for batch-size pathology — big-bang releases, quarter-long requirement queues, work that integrates at the end — and re-cut them into small shippable slices with learning checkpoints. Not for sprint mechanics, capacity planning, or personal productivity batching.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/small-batches

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Skill #11 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Pivot Or Persevere

Force a written pivot-or-persevere verdict backed by cohort evidence instead of hope. Prepares the decision meeting, runs it against Ries's failure conditions, and blocks the let's-give-it-another-quarter flake without a falsifiable threshold. Not for choosing which pivot type to execute (that is a separate catalog decision) or for performance reviews.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/pivot-or-persevere

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Skill #10 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Pivot Catalog

Match pivot symptoms to the right pivot type from Ries's ten-pivot catalog and draft the new hypothesis with its first cheap test. Use after a pivot-or-persevere verdict lands on PIVOT, when a startup or product is changing direction and needs to name the change, when growth stalls and someone says 'maybe we should pivot', or when the user says pivot catalog, which pivot, what kind of pivot, or pivot types.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/pivot-catalog

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Skill #9 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

Pirate Metrics Aarr

Map any product onto the AARRR funnel — acquisition, activation, retention, referral, revenue — then hunt the leakiest bucket and write the single experiment that fixes it. Not for choosing analytics tooling, running the experiments it designs, or offline sales pipelines without funnel data.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/pirate-metrics-aarr

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Skill #8 of 17 in awesome-product-management-skills

MVP Type Selector

Pick the cheapest MVP type that actually tests a product hypothesis — landing page, concierge, Wizard of Oz, piecemeal, single-feature, or explainer video — and output a build plan with pass/fail thresholds set before launch. Not for scaling an already-validated product or writing full PRDs.

Read the full skill: https://github.com/karozi/awesome-product-management-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-startup/mvp-type-selector

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