{"id":"lead-weekly-update-slack-plain-pm","audience":"product-managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"format","title":"Post a weekly update in Slack with no markdown and one ask","free":false,"task":"Write your weekly team update as a Slack message in plain text, under 80 words. Start with the word Status: followed by one of On track, At risk or Late. Include one shipped item, one thing coming next week, and a single ask with a name and a day. No bold, no emojis and no bullets.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"This week - Search team\n\n- Shipped: autocomplete suggestions for the help center (Tuesday).\n- Still open: relevance tuning for product search. Was due this Friday, now needs 3 more days because the test data was stale. New date: next Wednesday.\n- Next week: start the synonyms dictionary; kickoff Monday.\n- Need from Jo (data eng): refresh the test data set by Thursday so tuning can finish. Jo has not been asked yet.\n- Bug count down from 22 to 15.\n- Fun: we got new stickers.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":80},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxBullets","max":0}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Wrong status","why":"The AI says On track.","fix":"Say: \"A slipped date means At risk.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the ask","why":"The AI says 'let me know if you can help'.","fix":"Say: \"Name Jo, the task and Thursday.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Formatting","why":"The AI adds bold, bullets or emojis.","fix":"Say: \"No bold, no bullets, no emojis.\"","checks":["plainText","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Padding","why":"The AI includes bugs and stickers.","fix":"Say: \"Only shipped, next, and the ask.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap it: \"3 short sentences plus the status line.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Starts with status","patterns":["status:","start with"]},{"label":"Includes items","patterns":["shipped","next week"]},{"label":"One ask","patterns":["ask","jo","thursday"]},{"label":"No formatting","patterns":["no (bold|bullets|emoji)","plain"]},{"label":"Word limit","patterns":["under \\d+ words"]}],"hint":"Give the first words, the content parts, and the format bans.","rubricLabels":["The message starts with \"Status:\" followed by At risk (the relevance tuning slipped to next Wednesday)","It names the shipped autocomplete suggestions and next week's synonyms dictionary kickoff on Monday","It ends with one ask to Jo for the test data refresh by Thursday and has no emojis"]}