working-backwards SKILL.md skillA
working-backwards from vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards@git:20260721.86de099Pins git:20260721.86de099 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm
- Path
skills/working-backwards/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260721.86de099, committed Jul 21, 2026
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- 3,685 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Amazon's Working Backwards / PR-FAQ method — start from the customer problem and desired outcome, write the internal press release + FAQ BEFORE building. Use when defining a new product or major feature, evaluating competing ideas, aligning stakeholders, or forcing clarity on a vague concept before committing engineering resources.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
> **Provenance.** Adapted from `pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management@working-backwards` > (MIT License — github.com/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management). Framework > is Amazon's, documented in *Working Backwards* (Bryar & Carr). Vendored into > great-pm 2026-05-29 with great-pm-convention frontmatter. MIT permits commercial > use with attribution; this header is the attribution. # Working Backwards (PR-FAQ) ## What it is Amazon's product-development method. The core insight: **start with the customer problem and work backward to the solution — not the other way around.** Most teams work forward: "We have this capability — what can we build?" Working Backwards inverts it: "What problem does the customer have? What's the ideal solution? Now how do we build it?" The mechanism: write an internal **press release** and **FAQ** *before* building anything. If you can't write a compelling press release, you don't have a compelling product. > "We took it as an article of faith — if we served customers well… things like > sales, revenue, and free cash flow would follow." — Jeff Bezos ## When to use it - Define a new product or major feature before committing resources …
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How to install
mdr add vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards@sha256:0776078a1ac93e7eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260721.86de099, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 21, 2026.
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e4esg4qsuwncsc6d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0776078a1ac93e7e309c23d020bbbe849608ce186679993215b6efd68b37d627
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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