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ship-faster

Diagnoses why your product team ships slowly and produces a velocity plan with a baseline, a bottleneck map, the top 3 interventions and a stop-doing list. Use it when you say 'we're too slow', 'how do we ship faster', 'projects keep slipping', 'too many meetings', 'approvals take forever', 'our releases are scary', 'velocity', 'cycle time', 'we hired more people and nothing got faster' or 'AI made coding fast but we still ship slowly'. Draws on 226 Lenny's Podcast guests including Farhan Thawar, Nicole Forsgren and Melissa Perri.

Quality

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Content

81%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

An exceptionally actionable, well-sequenced consulting playbook with concrete numbers, routing logic, checkpoints and a paste-ready deliverable. The main weakness is token efficiency: the body duplicates reference-file content (quotes and framework detail) and runs long for a SKILL.md overview.

Suggestions

Remove the inline 'Receipts' quote section from SKILL.md and keep only a pointer to references/quotes.md, since the quotes file already holds the verified quotes with timestamps.

Trim Plays A-F to the tactic names plus one-line summaries in SKILL.md, deferring the full steps and benchmarks to references/frameworks.md to reduce the ~22KB body.

Compress the 'Where the experts disagree' camps to the decision rule and default only, moving the full camp rosters to a reference file.

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Conciseness

The body is dense and expert-specific throughout with no padding about concepts Claude already knows, but at ~22KB it duplicates material already in the bundle (the Receipts quotes reappear in references/quotes.md, and play tactics overlap references/frameworks.md), so it could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

Fully actionable instruction-only content: specific diagnostic questions with routing rationale, a situation-to-play routing table, numbered tactics with concrete numbers (five-day rule, one blocking approver, six-week ceiling, 10% working version), a paste-ready deliverable template, and a grading rubric with explicit 1/3/5 anchors.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear multi-step sequence (Diagnose -> Pick the play -> Run it) with explicit validation checkpoints: 'State your diagnosis in one sentence before you recommend anything... If you cannot, you are guessing', 'If you cannot name the top priority, stop here and run Play D', per-play 'Done when' criteria, and stability guardrails in the deliverable.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Good structure with real, clearly signaled one-level-deep references (references/frameworks.md and references/quotes.md both exist and are described in 'Go deeper'), but some content duplicated between the inline plays/quotes and the reference files keeps the split from being clean.

4 / 5

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Description

91%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description with explicit what/when structure and an unusually rich set of natural user trigger phrases. The only deductions are second-person phrasing ('your product team', 'when you say') and minor trigger overlap with adjacent meeting/metrics skills.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete outputs ('a baseline, a bottleneck map, the top 3 interventions and a stop-doing list') with comprehensive coverage, but uses second person ('your product team', 'Use it when you say') which the guidelines penalize by 1 on specificity.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Diagnoses why your product team ships slowly and produces a velocity plan with a baseline, a bottleneck map, the top 3 interventions and a stop-doing list') and when ('Use it when you say...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger phrases users would actually say ('we're too slow', 'how do we ship faster', 'projects keep slipping', 'too many meetings', 'approvals take forever', 'our releases are scary', 'velocity', 'cycle time', 'we hired more people and nothing got faster', 'AI made coding fast but we still ship slowly') including synonyms and AI-era variations.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche in product-team shipping velocity, but triggers like 'too many meetings', 'velocity' and 'cycle time' carry minor overlap risk with closely related meetings or metrics skills; the description does not disambiguate against them.

4 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

menkesu/awesome-pm-skills

Path

skills/ship-faster/SKILL.md

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