Tool Foundation Sprint Approach Options
Day 2 morning move of a Foundation Sprint.
Install
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill tool-foundation-sprint-approach-options -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- product-on-purpose/pm-skills780
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 1,740 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Day 2 morning move of a Foundation Sprint. Forces generation of 3 to 7 candidate approaches as one-page summaries before the team converges on a top bet. Use after Day 1 is signed and before Magic Lenses on Day 2 afternoon. Enforces a minimum of 3 approaches to prevent first-idea anchoring. Each approach summary names what it is, why it serves the differentiators, and includes a simple visual.
Foundation Sprint Approach Options
Day 2 morning of a Foundation Sprint. The team forces itself to generate multiple plausible approaches before committing to one. The skill enforces a minimum of 3 approaches; anchoring on a single approach is the most common Day 2 failure mode.
Family contract: site/src/content/docs/reference/skill-families/foundation-sprint-skills-contract.md. This skill is a member of foundation-sprint-skills.
When to Use
- Day 2 morning of a Foundation Sprint.
- Day 1 is signed; the Mini Manifesto, decision principles, and differentiation chart are committed.
- The team is ready to generate candidate approaches before evaluating them through Magic Lenses in the afternoon.
When NOT to Use
- Day 1 is unresolved. Approach Options without differentiation context produces approaches that miss the strategic position.
- The team has only one approach in mind and is unwilling to generate alternatives. The skill forces minimum 3; if the team refuses, the issue is sprint discipline, not tooling.
- More than 7 approaches are emerging organically. The skill caps generation at 7; beyond that the team is generating features, not strategic approaches.
What This Skill Produces
A single bundled artifact containing:
- 3 to 7 one-page approach summaries, each with:
- Name and label (color, letter, ID)
- One-sentence "what it is"
- "Why it's a good idea" rationale (1 short paragraph)
- Simple doodle or textual visual description
- How the approach serves the two chosen differentiators
- Approach set summary table comparing all approaches at a glance (label, name, capture mechanism, recall mechanism, primary trade-off).
See references/TEMPLATE.md for the canonical structure and references/EXAMPLE.md for the Brainshelf example.
