Foundation: Cross-Cutting Capabilities

Provides foundational PM artifacts usable across any phase. Captures customer personas, business model thinking, goal-setting, meeting facilitation, and stakeholder communication that serve as anchors for phase-specific work.

1. Create personas with foundation-persona early to ground all downstream decisions in customer reality. 2. Develop a lean-canvas to stress-test business assumptions and strategy across nine interlocking blocks. 3. Draft quarterly OKRs with foundation-okr-writer to align outcomes and key results; grade them at cycle close with measure-okr-grader. 4. Use foundation-meeting-agenda and meeting-brief for effective meetings; capture results with meeting-recap; synthesize patterns across meetings with meeting-synthesize. 5. Create a foundation-prioritized-action-plan to rank the critical next effort from any PM input (notes, transcripts, asks) using Theory of Constraints. 6. Run foundation-build-risk-review before committing build effort to catch fatal assumptions early. 7. Use foundation-stakeholder-briefings to fan any artifact into audience-tailored versions for executives, engineering, UX, PMM, sales, CS, legal, data. Output: enduring foundational artifacts that persist across phases and ground all downstream work.

foundation-persona refuses to generate personas without evidence; it labels assumptions and confidence honestly. lean-canvas and okr-writer support HTML and mermaid diagrams. meeting-recap auto-populates from meeting-agenda when available. All foundation skills are usable at any phase and cross-link to phase-specific skills for next steps.