executive-onboarding-playbook
Plan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path. Use when entering a new executive product role and avoiding premature change.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "deanpeters/product-manager-skills:executive-onboarding-playbook" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills && ln -s /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills/skills/executive-onboarding-playbook ~/.claude/skills/executive-onboarding-playbookFrom README
Purpose 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. This playbook runs in three phases: Diagnose (Month 1), Validate (Month 2), Act with Evidence (Month 3). Each phase builds on the last. Skipping phases doesn't accelerate results — it guarantees expensive reversals. This is not a 100-day plan for impressing your new boss. It's a diagnostic protocol for making durable decisions. Input Works best with: The role you're stepping into (VP or CPO) and basic company context — size, stage, how the product org is set up. Also useful: How far you are from Day 1 (offer stage, pre-start, week 3), known landmines, and what the CEO says success looks like.
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