Product Process Health

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name: product-process-health
description: Measure and improve product-process health through intake age, decision latency, discovery evidence, roadmap churn, launch readiness, feedback closure, and cross-team rework.
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# Product Process Health

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using workflow timestamps, decision records, launch retrospectives, feedback loops, backlog changes, and stakeholder interviews. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Define process outcomes not individual performance metrics, collect baseline, locate bottlenecks, run bounded process experiments, and verify downstream improvement.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
Metrics expose system friction without incentivizing teams to game volume or speed at the expense of product quality.