Altitude Horizon Framework

If you're a senior PM wondering what actually changes when you become a Director, or you're newly promoted and something feels off, this breaks it down into two axes: altitude (how wide you zoom) and horizon (how far ahead you look). The waiter versus restaurant operator analogy is sharp. Most useful are the four transition zones and named failure modes like Hero Syndrome (jumping in to solve problems yourself) and being Allergic to Process (letting teams run independent playbooks until nothing integrates). The Cascading Context Map is practical for when company strategy is vague and you need to create direction downward instead of waiting for perfect clarity from above. Takes about 15 minutes and diagnoses exactly which part of the transition is creating friction.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill altitude-horizon-framework --agent claude-code