Product Roadmap Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a generative skill. The default failure mode is the dated feature list: features pinned to months, presented as commitments, mistaken for a backlog, stale within a quarter — manufacturing an illusion of certainty that converts every market shift into a broken promise. A roadmap is a strategic communication tool: it answers why and what-outcome, in sequence, at the right confidence level. This skill gates:

1. Establish strategy, audience, and horizon — these decide format, detail, and date precision.
2. Apply the always-true core — outcomes over outputs, themes over features, strategy linkage, honest uncertainty.
3. Surface the format and process decisions (Now-Next-Later vs. timeline, quarterly vs. annual, audience views) with trade-offs.

Then it hands off to pm-prioritization-rigor-audit and pm-okr-metric-validity-audit for validation.

Step 0 — Establish context before drafting

Ask if not known; state the assumption if proceeding without an answer: