project-manager-skill

What problem does it solve?

Managing complex multi-domain engineering projects (acoustics, DSP, hardware, structure, test) with multiple autonomous agents is chaotic without centralized orchestration. Teams face missed dependencies, delayed critical path tasks, unreported risks, and inconsistent stakeholder communication, leading to slipped timelines and reduced deliverable quality. This Skill provides a complete, production-grade orchestration framework for the Project Manager Agent, the central hub of the ITC multi-agent system, to eliminate these pain points.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Automated Work Breakdown: Decomposes product requirements (PRDs) into granular, assignable tasks across 5 engineering domains, with clear deliverables and acceptance criteria for each task.
• Dependency & Critical Path Management: Automatically builds and maintains a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of task dependencies, identifies critical path tasks, and alerts on delays that impact downstream workstreams.
• Intelligent Task Scheduling: Dispatches tasks to domain agents based on priority, dependency status, agent capacity, and historical performance calibration to maximize on-time delivery rates.
• Proactive Risk Management: Monitors for schedule, quality, and resource risks in real time, escalates issues to human leadership with structured impact analysis and mitigation options, and maintains a searchable historical risk library.
• Standardized Communication: Defines strict interfaces for interaction with domain agents, Critic review agents, and human CTOs, including daily status reports, task assignments, and escalation protocols.
• Use Case: For a new audio speaker development project, this Skill automates the entire orchestration workflow: breaking the PRD into acoustics, DSP, and hardware tasks, assigning work to specialized agents, tracking dependencies to avoid PCB layout delays caused by missing DSP pin definitions, and flagging thermal simulation risks before they cause costly redesigns.

Quick Start

Use the project-manager-skill to take the attached audio product PRD, decompose it into a prioritized task list with dependencies and agent assignments, and generate the first daily status report for the CTO.