Director Readiness Advisor

If you're a senior PM eyeing a Director role, just landed one, or hitting a wall 18 months in, this gives you a structured coaching conversation instead of generic leadership platitudes. It asks 3-4 diagnostic questions about where you are in the transition (preparing, interviewing, newly promoted, or recalibrating), then delivers 3-5 numbered recommendations tailored to your situation. Built on the Altitude & Horizon Framework with named failure modes like Hero Syndrome and the Waiter vs. Restaurant Operator distinction. Takes 10-15 minutes. The honest take: it's opinionated about what actually trips people up when scope changes, which means it's useful if you recognize yourself in those patterns and less so if your situation is unusual.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill director-readiness-advisor --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Purpose

Guide PMs and Directors through the specific challenges of the PM-to-Director transition using adaptive questions and targeted coaching. Diagnoses where you are in the journey and delivers practical, war-story-backed guidance calibrated to your situation — not generic leadership advice.

This is not a readiness checklist. It's a coaching conversation that names what's actually hard, why it's hard, and what to do about it.

Input

Works best with: Where you are in the PM-to-Director journey: preparing for the jump, interviewing, newly landed, or recalibrating after a rough start. Also useful: Your org context (team size, who you'd report to) and the specific friction you're feeling.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

Arriving empty-handed? That works too. The advisor opens by asking which of the four situations describes you, then branches.

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