escaping-build-trap
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Product management framework based on Melissa Perri''s "Escaping the Build Trap". Use this skill whenever the user is discussing product strategy, roadmap construction, product team maturity, or symptoms of feature-factory behavior — even if they do not explicitly say "build trap" or "outcome-driven." Triggers include: (1) diagnosing whether a team is stuck shipping features without measuring outcomes, (2) shifting from output-driven to outcome-driven product development, (3) evaluating product manager archetypes (Waiter, Project Manager, Mini-CEO, Strategic) or team maturity, (4) designing a strategy deployment cascade from vision to product initiatives to team-level options, (5) converting a feature roadmap into an outcome roadmap, (6) running a pre-mortem against a quarterly plan to detect build-trap patterns before committing, (7) coaching a PM who is acting as an order-taker for stakeholder requests, (8) writing the case for killing a low-adoption feature.
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