Inspired Product
Build empowered product teams using discovery and delivery dual-track.
Install
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill inspired-product -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- wondelai/skills2.6k
- Category
- Testing
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Build empowered product teams using discovery and delivery dual-track. Use when the user mentions "product discovery", "empowered teams", "feature factory", "opportunity assessment", "product vision", "product strategy", "what should we build", or "our roadmap is just a feature list". Also trigger when restructuring teams away from output-driven models, or deciding what to build next based on outcomes. Covers discovery techniques, team structure, opportunity assessment, vision/strategy, and continuous delivery. For customer interviews, see mom-test. For ongoing discovery systems, see continuous-discovery.
Empowered Product Teams Framework
Framework for building products customers love through empowered teams that own continuous discovery and delivery. The best product companies don't ship features -- they solve problems, and they give teams the autonomy and accountability to figure out how.
Core Principle
Empowered product teams = cross-functional groups given problems to solve (not features to build) who own discovery and delivery end-to-end.
Most product failures come not from bad engineering or design but from building things nobody wants. Feature teams receive roadmaps and execute; empowered teams receive objectives and discover solutions. The difference between a feature factory and an innovation engine is whether teams are missionaries (driven by vision and empathy) or mercenaries (driven by a handed-down backlog).
Scoring
Goal: 7/7. Score product team structures, discovery practices, or delivery processes by the Quick Diagnostic below -- 1 point per satisfied row, scored 0-7. Bands: 6-7 = empowered teams own outcomes and discovery runs continuously with engineers; 4-5 = discovery happens but inconsistently, or teams own output with partial outcome accountability; <=3 = a feature factory: teams receive a roadmap of dated features and skip discovery. Always state the current score and the specific failed diagnostic rows to fix to reach 7/7.
Framework
1. Product Discovery vs Delivery
Core concept: Product work runs on two parallel tracks: discovery determines what to build by addressing risks before engineering investment; delivery builds production-quality software. Most organizations skip discovery entirely, jumping from idea to backlog to sprint.
Why it works: Discovery is cheap and fast; delivery is expensive and slow. Validating ideas before committing engineering avoids the most common failure mode: building something nobody wants.
