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Productboard Expert

Name: productboard-expert
Author: borghei

Master-level expertise in Productboard workspace configuration, Insight inbox triage, Driver-based prioritization, Feature hierarchy management, Releases and Roadmap views, REST API operations, and two-way integration with Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, Intercom, and Slack. Productboard sits between customer-feedback intake (Slack/Intercom/Salesforce/email) and the engineering tracker (Jira/Linear), with an opinionated three-layer model that differs meaningfully from generic issue trackers.

Overview

Productboard separates three layers: Insights (inbound customer evidence), Features (candidate product changes organized in Components and parent/child hierarchy), and Drivers + Releases (the prioritization framework — Drivers = weighted criteria, Releases = time-boxed delivery groupings). Insights link to Features (many-to-many); Features score against Drivers; high-scoring Features get added to Releases; Releases push down to Jira/Linear epics. The flow is inbox → triage → prioritize → ship.

The job of a Productboard expert is to operate fluently inside this model: configure the workspace cleanly, run the Insight inbox without backlog, design Driver weightings that match company strategy, and write API automations for what the UI does not cover.

Core Capabilities

Workspace & hierarchy setup — Components, Feature taxonomy, Tags, custom fields, roles
Insight inbox triage — the highest-leverage daily ritual; verbatim discipline, multi-Feature linking
Driver configuration & Feature scoring — 3-5 weighted Drivers, composite scoring, quarterly re-weighting
Releases & Roadmap views — time-boxed delivery, audience-specific views, Portal for customers
REST API automation — bulk Insight/Feature operations, webhooks, custom-field updates, pagination
Two-way integration — Jira/Linear/Azure DevOps (Features↔Epics) and Salesforce/HubSpot/Intercom/Zendesk (Insight capture)

When to Use

Setting up a new Productboard workspace, Component hierarchy, or Feature taxonomy
Configuring Drivers and weighting them against strategic objectives
Running the Insight inbox triage workflow (the highest-leverage daily ritual)
Configuring two-way Jira/Linear/Azure DevOps integration or CRM customer sync
Building Roadmap views for executives, customers, and internal teams
Writing API calls to bulk-create Insights, update Features, or read prioritization data
Migrating from spreadsheet-based prioritization, or troubleshooting "Insights aren't flowing", "scores aren't updating", and similar workflow failures

References

Load the reference that matches the task — keep this file lean and pull detail on demand:

references/operations-playbook.md — concepts (data model, three layers, Importance×Evidence), all 9 core workflows (setup, triage, Drivers, scoring, Releases, integrations, capture, bulk ops), inline API call catalog, best practices, troubleshooting table, and success criteria. Read this for any setup, triage, scoring, or API task.
references/productboard-api-patterns.md — full REST API call catalog with curl examples and JSON shapes. Read when scripting against the API.
references/productboard-vs-jira-vs-linear.md — when to use Productboard alongside (or instead of) Jira/Linear; concept translation. Read when positioning the tool in an existing stack.
references/red-flags.md — common ways this skill's output goes wrong, with fixes. Read before finalizing a workspace design or prioritization recommendation.
Assets: assets/productboard-feature-template.md (Feature structure), assets/productboard-insight-triage-workflow.md (daily triage SOP), assets/productboard-driver-template.md (Driver definitions). Official docs: https://developer.productboard.com/ · https://help.productboard.com/

Scope & Limitations

In Scope: Workspace and Component hierarchy setup, Insight inbox triage, Driver configuration and Feature scoring, Releases and Roadmap views (internal and customer-facing), Productboard REST API operations (Features, Insights, Releases, custom fields, webhooks), two-way integration setup with Jira/Linear/Azure DevOps, customer-data sync from Salesforce/HubSpot, bulk operations via API, Portal configuration.

Out of Scope: Engineering-side Jira/Linear configuration (see jira-expert/, linear-expert/). Strategic prioritization framework selection (see execution/prioritization-frameworks/). PRD authoring (see execution/create-prd/). Customer interview synthesis (see discovery/interview-synthesis/).

Limitations: API rate limits are workspace-wide; aggressive scripts can starve the UI. The Salesforce/HubSpot integration is one-way (CRM → Productboard) on a schedule, not real time. Drivers max out at 10 per workspace on most plans. Roadmap views are good for time-bound delivery (Releases) but weaker for outcome-based roadmaps (Now/Next/Later) — augment with execution/outcome-roadmap/. Per-Component access control is an Enterprise feature.

Integration Points

Integration	Direction	What flows
`jira-expert/`	Productboard ↔ Jira	Features push as Epics; status flows back; Sprint plan derived from prioritization
`linear-expert/`	Productboard ↔ Linear	Features push as Projects/Issues; Cycle assignment from Release dates
`execution/prioritization-frameworks/`	Bidirectional	Drivers operationalize RICE/ICE/WSJF; external scores import as custom fields
`execution/create-prd/`	Productboard → PRD	High-priority Features become PRDs; PRD link returns as custom field
`execution/outcome-roadmap/`	Bidirectional	Outcome themes map to Objectives; Releases give the delivery side
`execution/roadmap-communication/`	Productboard → Comms	Customer-facing Roadmap variants pull from Portal
`execution/customer-feedback-triage/`	Bidirectional	Triaged feedback clusters become Insights; inbox is the triage entry point
`execution/release-notes/`	Productboard → Release Notes	Completed Features in a Release become release-note line items
`senior-pm/`	Productboard → Portfolio	Driver scores and Feature distribution feed portfolio health
`notion-pm/`	Productboard ↔ Notion	Roadmap embeds into Notion; deep PRDs live in Notion linked from Features
`discovery/interview-synthesis/`	Bidirectional	Interview insights become Notes; high-evidence Features motivate interviews
`business-growth/customer-success/`	CS → Productboard	CS is a primary Insight source via Salesforce / Intercom integration

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/borghei-claude-skills-productboard-expert/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

borghei-claude-skills-productboard-expert.ocm.jsonjson

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  "instructions": "# Productboard Expert\n\nMaster-level expertise in Productboard workspace configuration, Insight inbox triage, Driver-based prioritization, Feature hierarchy management, Releases and Roadmap views, REST API operations, and two-way integration with Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps, Salesforce, Intercom, and Slack. Productboard sits between customer-feedback intake (Slack/Intercom/Salesforce/email) and the engineering tracker (Jira/Linear), with an opinionated three-layer model that differs meaningfully from generic issue trackers.\n\n## Overview\n\nProductboard separates three layers: **Insights** (inbound",
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Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/borghei-claude-skills-productboard-expert/manifest?version=1.0.0

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