# Product Reviews

Help users design and facilitate product reviews that shift from status updates to...

- Repository: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1456 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-07-16
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill product-reviews -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill product-reviews -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill product-reviews -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill product-reviews -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Help users design and facilitate product reviews that shift from status updates to strategic deep-dives, ensuring high-quality craftsmanship and organizational alignment.

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

# Effective Product Reviews

Run rigorous alignment sessions that raise the quality bar and accelerate decision-making.

Help the user with effective product reviews using insights from 12 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

## How to Help

1. **Assess review culture** - Evaluate current review formats and identify bottlenecks or gaps in quality standards.
2. **Select a framework** - Recommend the appropriate review stage or template based on the project's complexity and lifecycle.
3. **Draft review materials** - Assist in framing problem statements, mapping the option space, and preparing pre-read documents.
4. **Facilitate the session** - Provide techniques for gauging sentiment, managing dissent, and capturing clear decisions.

## Core Principles

### Evaluate Frameworks, Not Solutions
From "How Figma builds product": "One thing I encourage for both is to first present the “option space”, it’s really powerful to have a framework that maps all possible solutions or problems and use that as a device to discuss high-level tradeoffs or philosophical differences."

High-quality decisions come from mapping the entire field of possible solutions rather than debating a single proposal in isolation.

### Establish a Transparent Cadence
From "How Duolingo builds product": "Product review meetings happen every Tuesday and Thursday for a total of two hours. These two hours are divided into 20-minute slots that product teams sign up to present. The agenda of these meetings is product teams presenting their proposed product changes for the first 5 to 10 minutes and then reviewers asking questions and giving feedback for the rest of the time."

Recurring, short review slots prevent feedback bottlenecks and create a shared understanding of what constitutes quality across the organization.

The rest: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/product-reviews/SKILL.md