pm-discovery-interview

When to use

Before every live discovery session with a client, sponsor, their staff, or their users. The skill does NOT run the interview - it prepares you for it: reads what discovery has already covered, finds the gaps, and compiles a targeted agenda from its built-in discovery question bank (embedded in the skill - two planes, three user populations, full technique library). After the session, process the notes with /pm-meeting (Client Discovery type).

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What it produces

One artifact (meetings/prep/[YYYY-MM-DD]-[audience]-agenda.md):

• Coverage map - which discovery areas are done, thin, untouched (from prior meeting notes + Track artifacts)
• Session agenda - 2-3 gap areas per hour, each block with a goal, personalized questions, follow-ups, and red-flag answers
• Techniques to have ready - e.g. reference decompression when the client keeps mentioning a competitor product
• Close block - recap, mutual next steps (including what the client owes)

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How to invoke

/pm-discovery-interview           # interactive - asks audience, format, session goal
/pm-discovery-interview --agent   # autonomous draft from workspace state

First session (nothing exists yet): normal case - defaults to trigger/business/success + the client's claims about their users; constraints sweep comes second session.

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Dependencies

Reads (whatever exists):

• meetings/ - prior client-discovery and customer-discovery notes
• artifacts/phase-2-discovery/ - Track artifacts + Discovery Report

Produces for:

• the live session itself (field agenda)
• pm-meeting - the agenda pairs with the meeting note produced afterward

Related skills: pm-meeting, pm-discovery-report, pm-scope-brief, pm-personas, jtbd-building