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Priya's Wednesday, two ways

8 lessons · 25 prompts

A day in the life of a Chief Product Officers (CPOs): what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, Chief Product Officer at a mid-sized software company.

Priya starts Wednesday with a board update due the next morning and a roadmap review at eleven. She opens Claude and pastes in her rough notes from the last quarter, then uses the Executive And Board Communication prompt to turn them into a short update with three clear points and the open questions she wants the board to weigh in on. She edits it in twenty minutes instead of the usual two hours.

Next she works on the vision. The product has drifted toward feature requests from three large customers, and she needs a story the whole company can hold. With the Product Vision Drafting prompt she turns her scattered notes into a one-page narrative and a list of assumptions she can test with the team.

After lunch she reads fourteen customer interview notes. Instead of summarizing them by hand she runs the Customer Feedback Synthesis prompt and gets four themes, each with quotes she can trace back. Two of the themes change how she wants to order the next quarter's backlog, so she uses the Backlog Prioritization prompt to reframe the top items around outcomes rather than features.

By four o'clock the roadmap review is done and she has time to walk to her daughter's school pickup, something she has missed most Wednesdays this year.

Before

  • Board decks eat the whole evening
  • Roadmap debates circle the same points
  • Feedback notes pile up unread
  • Vision lives in five different docs

After this course

  • Board update done before lunch
  • Roadmap review ends on time
  • Themes ready to act on
  • Home for school pickup

What you'll learn

  • Vision drafting: Turn a fuzzy ambition into a vision, a narrative, and a set of testable assumptions.
  • Roadmap alignment: Shape an outcome-based roadmap and give engineering the context they need to act.
  • Backlog calls: Score and reframe priorities so your reasoning holds up in a room.
  • Feedback themes: Turn interview notes, tickets, and surveys into themes you can act on.
  • Market scan: Pull competitor moves and market signals into one concise strategic view.
  • Launch planning: Plan a launch, brief the teams, and catch readiness gaps early.
  • Metrics review: Explain what moved and prepare better questions for the data.
  • Board updates: Turn strategy and numbers into a crisp update for executives and investors.

How this course works

  1. 8 lessonsOne task of your job each, from product vision drafting to executive and board communication.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.