Executive Onboarding Playbook
Skill ActivePlan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path. Use when entering a new executive product role and avoiding premature change.
Structure the first 90 days of a VP or CPO transition as a diagnostic process, not an execution sprint, to avoid premature and costly changes by building a solid evidence base.
Features
- 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding plan
- Guidance on interviewing and information gathering
- Framework for surfacing unwritten strategy
- People assessment categories (diamonds in rough, strong in wrong roles)
- Pre-role acceptance evaluation framework
Use Cases
- Starting a new VP or CPO role within the first 90 days
- Evaluating a CPO offer by understanding what questions to ask
- Diagnosing an organization after inheriting a new executive role
- Validating initial learnings before making significant changes
Non-Goals
- Providing a generic 100-day plan focused on impressing stakeholders
- Acting before understanding the organization's reality
- Making structural announcements or process changes in the first month
- Trusting only the loudest voices or single-source information
Workflow
- Phase 0: Before Day 1 - Pre-Entry Checks
- Phase 1: Month 1 - Diagnose
- Phase 2: Month 2 - Validate
- Phase 3: Month 3 - Act with Evidence
Practices
- Diagnostic leadership
- Evidence-based decision making
- Organizational assessment
- Stakeholder alignment
License
- warning:License usabilityThe license is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which is a strong copyleft license with a non-commercial restriction, potentially limiting its usability in commercial AI workflows.
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionIn the last 90 days, 3 issues were opened and 0 were closed, indicating a closure rate of 0% and potentially slow maintainer responsiveness.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/plugin install executive-onboarding-playbook@pm-skillsQuality Score
Trust Signals
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