Vp Cpo Readiness Advisor

If you're a Director eyeing VP or a VP who just realized the executive team dynamics are nothing like you expected, this walks you through the actual transition points: preparing, interviewing, landing, or recalibrating when it's not working. It uses the Three Ps framework (Product, Practice, People) to diagnose where you are, then asks 3-4 targeted questions before giving you numbered recommendations. The underlying insight is solid: the VP to CPO shift isn't about more authority, it's about switching from product language to business language and realizing your primary team is now the executive staff, not your reports. It's built on the workshop facilitation protocol, so expect one question at a time rather than a wall of advice.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

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

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Purpose

Guide Directors and senior product leaders through the specific challenges of the transition to VP or CPO using adaptive questions and targeted coaching. Diagnoses where you are in the journey and delivers practical, lived-experience coaching calibrated to your situation — not generic executive advice.

The VP/CPO transition is not a continuation of the Director transition. The landscape changes. Strategy becomes largely unwritten. Your primary customer may shift. You stop using product language with executives. Constraints don't disappear — the Rubik's Cube just goes from 3×3 to 9×9. This advisor names what's actually hard at this level and what to do about it.

Input

Works best with: Where you are in the Director-to-VP/CPO journey: preparing, interviewing, newly landed, or recalibrating. Also useful: Company stage, whether you'd be (or are) the first product executive, and your relationship with the CEO.

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.

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Details

Repository: github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-skills
Category: Documentation
First seen: Apr 16, 2026