# Pm

When you want to manage projects across your businesses using a kanban + Eisenhower...

- Repository: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills (880 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-26
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill pm -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill pm -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill pm -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill pm -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add coreyhaines31/makerskills`

## Description

When you want to manage projects across your businesses using a kanban + Eisenhower methodology. One kanban per business (whatever portfolio of businesses, projects, or initiatives you run). Tool-agnostic, connects via API/MCP to whatever PM tool each business uses (Notion, GitHub Projects, Plane, Linear, Obsidian file-based, or manual mode). Async-first output. Six modes, setup (scaffold a new board for a business), triage (Eisenhower-sort the backlog), next (pick the next thing to work on, single board or across all), status (paste-ready async snapshot), unblock (diagnose Review/Blocked column), weekly (Friday pulse + week planning). Triggers on "/pm," "/pm setup," "/pm triage," "/pm next," "/pm status," "/pm unblock," "/pm weekly," "what should I work on next," "kanban status," "Eisenhower this," "triage my backlog," "what's blocked.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# /pm, Project management across the portfolio

Methodology-first project management. Kanban + Eisenhower + async. One board per business. Tool-agnostic via adapters.

## Mental model

Each business gets its own kanban with 5 columns:

```
Backlog  →  Ready  →  In Progress  →  Review/Blocked  →  Done/Archived
```

- **Backlog**: everything that *might* matter, not yet committed
- **Ready**: triaged, well-defined, can be picked up
- **In Progress**: actively being worked
- **Review/Blocked**: waiting on someone else, review, or external dependency
- **Done/Archived**: shipped or killed

**Eisenhower** sits on top of the board, used to triage Backlog → Ready (which items make the cut) and to pick next from Ready (which Ready item to pull).

```
                Urgent          Not Urgent
Important       Q1: Do          Q2: Schedule    ← Q2 is the high-leverage zone
Not Important   Q3: Delegate    Q4: Delete
```

**Async-first**: every status snapshot should read like a Loom you didn't have to record. Make work visible without requiring a meeting.

## Step 1, Detect mode and target

Parse the invocation:

| Invocation | Mode | Target |
|---|---|---|
| `/pm setup [business]` | setup | the named business |
| `/pm triage [business]` | triage | the named business (or ask) |
| `/pm next [business]` | next | the named business |
| `/pm next` | next | **across all boards** (cross-portfolio) |
| `/pm status [business]` | status | the named business (or ask) |
| `/pm unblock [business]` | unblock | the named business (or ask) |
| `/pm weekly` | weekly | all boards (Friday pulse) |
| `/pm weekly [business]` | weekly | the named business |

## Step 2, Load board config + personal overlay

Read `${MAKERSKILLS_CONFIG:-$HOME/.config/makerskills}/pm/boards.md` (personal, real business list + tool mapping per business). Falls back to `references/boards.md` in the repo if the local file doesn't exist yet, that's a template.

The rest: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills/blob/HEAD/skills/pm/SKILL.md