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Try itnpx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill writing-prdsHelp the user write effective product requirements documents using frameworks and insights from 11 product leaders.
When the user asks for help with PRDs:
Maggie Crowley: "The most important section is the first part - what is the background and context? What is the problem, why does it matter, and why does it matter now?" Center the team on the 'why' and the urgency before discussing solutions.
Bill Carr: "Whenever we're devising a new product, we start by writing a press release describing it in a way that speaks to the customer. The idea better jump off the page." Use the PR to describe customer, problem, and solution in factual, data-rich language.
Aparna Chennapragada: "If you're not prototyping and building to see what you want to build, you're doing it wrong. Prompt sets are the new PRDs." For AI features, include functional prototypes and prompt sets as core requirements.
Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar: "This is the purest sense of what a product requirements document should be - this eval judge that's telling you exactly what it should be, and it's automatic and running constantly." Translate product requirements into executable evaluations for AI products.
Eric Simons: "We tend to keep them pretty light. I like to have the minimal amount of context that ensures everyone's on the same page and that key outcomes will be present when we get there." Focus on key outcomes rather than exhaustive details that developers ignore.
Vikrama Dhiman: "Is your PRD quality good enough? Are you writing drafts that go to care teams, marketing teams? You must have impact through the artifacts you work on." High-quality PRDs demonstrate professional craft and create clarity at scale.
Claire Vo: "I had used ChatGPT to come up with a very serviceable PRD spec for this very technical product." Use AI to scaffold basics like user stories and out-of-scope items, then focus on high-level strategy and narrative.
Guillermo Rauch: "The product management team is now actually building the product. We've specced out in v0, think of it as a live PRD. The amount of detail - we're all saying 'just ship it.'" Interactive, animated prototypes reduce ambiguity and speed up approval.
Justify the timing of this investment against other opportunities. If you can't explain why this matters now versus later, the priority is questionable.
For all 14 insights from 11 guests, see references/guest-insights.md