What do I need to use Manager First 90 Days?

The situation; The team's state as advertised; The mandate; Inherited hazards.

Is Manager First 90 Days free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Manager First 90 Days

Q: How do I know the Manager First 90 Days output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Each phase has explicit forbidden moves, not just to-dos; Listening-tour questions fetch specifics ("what almost broke") not vibes ("how's morale"); People-assessment cites artifacts and dependency patterns, not meeting impressions; The week-6 note exists and quotes what people actually said.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-people

Plan a new manager's first 90 days — first-time or new-to-team — as listen/decide/move phases: the 1:1 listening tour with real questions, the early-judgment traps, the quick-wins filter, and the 30/60/90 artifacts. Use when asked I just became a manager what do I do, plan my first 90 days as a manager, taking over an existing team, or new manager 30-60-90 plan. Produces the phased plan, the listening-tour question set, the team assessment framework, and the day-one and week-6 artifacts.

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What to give it

▸The situation — first-time manager or experienced-but-new-team? Internal promotion (now managing former peers — its own minefield) or external hire?

▸The team's state as advertised — size, tenure mix, why the role was open (predecessor promoted, quit, fired — each leaves different residue), known fires

▸The mandate — hired to fix, to grow, or to not-break? What did their boss say success at 90 days looks like? (If they don't know, that conversation is week-1 item #1.)

▸Inherited hazards — a flight-risk star, an open performance problem, a stalled critical project

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Each phase has explicit forbidden moves, not just to-dos

✓Listening-tour questions fetch specifics ("what almost broke") not vibes ("how's morale")

✓People-assessment cites artifacts and dependency patterns, not meeting impressions

✓The week-6 note exists and quotes what people actually said

✓At least one hard call is scheduled inside the 90 — not "after I settle in"

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not reorganize in month one — pattern-matching from the last job is not knowledge of this team

Do not adopt inherited reputations without verification — especially the "problem person"

Do not let listening become hiding — the week-6 note is mandatory, discomfort included

Do not pick quick wins the team didn't ask for — a win nobody wanted is a change nobody wanted

Do not defer the former-peers conversation — week 1, explicit, once

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