Frameworks cheat sheet

This page is a reference, not a story. Read lessons 1 and 2 first. Then come back here when you meet a word you do not remember. It supports every Developer week, because the same words appear in all of them.

1. Why this matters

A Product Development Manager talks to many disciplines in one day. A finance colleague, a designer and a founder will use your words only if the words are short and clear. Every acronym in these frameworks is a small memory aid. If you forget what one letter means, the aid has failed. This sheet is the backup. It also shows the question each framework answers. When you are stuck, ask the question first, then look for the framework.

2. Pick a framework by question

If you are asking…	Use	Lesson
“What industry is this? Who are the big players? What could shake it?”	UBF	UBF: the business galaxy
“Which official code describes our industry?”	NAICS or SIC, inside UBF	NAICS, SIC and your galaxy
“Where does this project sit, where is it going, how does it connect, what will it reach?”	STAR	STAR
“Should we change focus for a few hours?”	SHIFT	SHIFT
“What is the plan, the budget and the measure of success?”	ORBITAL	ORBITAL: Objective, Resources, Budget
“How does work flow from idea to delivery?”	ANDROID Ops	Why a new operating model
“Which technology do we start with?”	PHANTOMS	PHANTOMS track
“Where are we on the journey?”	SuperNova path	The SuperNova path

3. Every acronym spelled out

The path (SuperNova)

Stage	Meaning	One line
DREAM	Discover, Relate, Empower, Advise, Motivate	Discovery before you build.
ORBITAL	Objective, Resources, Budget, Indicators, Transport, Activities, Logistics	The product plan.
STARTUP	Structure, Think Tank, Analysis, Relations, UX/UI, Publications	The foundations of a real organisation.
ANDROID Ops	Advance, Network, Design, Research, Optimize, Implement, Deliver	The operating model for building and improving.
LAUNCH	Logistics, Application, Users, Navigation, Channel, Hive	Planning the launch as a business event.
GROWTH	Gauge, Research, Organize, Work, Target, Health	Finding funding and growth routes, with rules.
Mission Control	(a name, not an acronym)	Watching and steering a launched product.
Event Horizon	(a name, not an acronym)	The tipping point of real traction.

Industry (UBF)

Term	Plain meaning
UBF	Universal Business Framework: a way to picture an industry like a galaxy.
Galaxy	A whole industry, matched to an industry code.
Black hole	The largest, most powerful company at the centre of a galaxy. Everything around it feels its pull.
Super nova	A big event felt across the industry, such as a new law or a technology jump.
Solar system	A group of companies under one holding company (a company that owns other companies).
Sun	The largest visible company in a solar system, or an organisation’s headquarters.
Super star	A flagship company or fast-growing project that might become a sun.
Star	A small company or project, described with STAR.
Moon	A side project, startup, subsidiary or department, planned with ORBITAL.
Comet, asteroid	An unstable project that needs better planning, or avoiding.
Droid	One focused unit of work with one purpose. It may be a person’s task or an AI agent’s job.
NAICS	North American Industry Classification System.
SIC	Standard Industrial Classification. An older code system still used in many records.

Project (STAR and SMART)

Term	Plain meaning
STAR	Space, Track, Assist, Reach.
Space	Where the project sits among competitors, partners and rules.
Track	Its past, present and future path. The roadmap lives here.
Assist	What you build or choose so others can plug in: APIs, DevOps, MLOps. The integrations live here.
Reach	Where it is going: the result, new abilities and measurable impact.
SMART	Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timed. A test for a clear task.
SHIFT	A four-hour focus block to change a project’s course using ANDROID activities.

Plan (ORBITAL)

Letter	Element	One line
O	Objective	The one outcome you want, in measurable words.
R	Resources	People, tools, data, equipment, partners.
B	Budget	What it costs, when, and who pays.
I	Indicators	How you will know: KPIs (key performance indicators) or SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
T	Transport	How goods, data, energy and value move from A to B.
A	Activities	The tasks, events and milestones, in time order.
L	Logistics	Coordination, communication, risks and learning (MEL: monitoring, evaluation and learning).

Operating model (ANDROID Ops and DROID Ops)

Letter	ANDROID Ops	DROID Ops
A	Advance: improve the roadmap, automate	(not used)
N	Network: connections, communication, architecture	(not used)
D	Design: shape the look, flow and system	Design
R	Research: find facts and options	Research
O	Optimize: make the process better	Optimize
I	Implement: build and integrate	Integrate
D	Deliver: give value to the customer	Deliver

A note on names: the Product Catalogue standard uses the noun forms (Advancement, Networking, Optimisation, Implementation, Deployment). They mean the same seven areas.

Technology (PHANTOMS family)

PHANTOMS is a family of agent-ready starting stacks. You choose each piece by the job it does, and you swap pieces as technology improves.

Letter	Piece (in the core starter)	Job
P	PostgreSQL	Durable data you can trust.
H	Hono	A small web API.
A	AI	Models and agents behind a replaceable adapter. It is provider-neutral: never tied to one vendor.
N	Next.js	The web application.
T	Turborepo	Runs tasks across a multi-package project and caches the results.
O	OpenClaw	An optional agent runtime for tools with limits.
M	Milvus	Optional search by meaning (vectors).
S	SeaweedFS	Optional file and object storage.

Variants today: PHANTOMS core (the learning starter), PHANTOMS+ web (adds a modern styling and component layer such as Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui), and PHANTOMS TUI (terminal apps written in Go with the Charm libraries). More will follow. Read the PHANTOMS track.

Agents and the command chain

Term	Plain meaning
Use, delegate, orchestrate, govern	The four rungs of agent skill: work with one agent; give it a whole task with a brief; run many sessions in a chain; control them with written policy and gates.
Session	One agent working on one task.
Commander	Runs one product’s command centre and its sessions.
Chief of Command	Runs several Commanders (a “master commander”).
Admiral	Oversees everything inside written policy, and delegates outcomes.
Policy	Rules written down as files that people and agents can read.
Hook	A check that runs automatically at a set moment, for example before a change is saved.
Gate	A condition that must be true before work moves on, such as a green pipeline or a required review.

Read more in the agent orchestration track.

Other short words you will meet

Word	Meaning
KPI	Key performance indicator: a number that shows progress.
OKR	Objectives and key results: a goal plus the numbers that prove it.
SDG	One of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
MVP	Minimum viable product: the smallest version that teaches you something real.
SWOT	Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
RFP	Request for proposals: a buyer asks suppliers to bid.
API	Application programming interface: a defined way for one program to talk to another.
CI/CD	Continuous integration and delivery: automatic tests and releases.
PDM	Product Development Manager: you.

4. Where each framework leaves a file in git

Framework	File in your planning repository
Map and path	frameworks/map.md, frameworks/path.md
UBF	frameworks/galaxy.md
STAR	frameworks/star.md (plus links to the roadmap and the integrations register)
SHIFT	frameworks/shifts/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md
ORBITAL	frameworks/orbital.md
ANDROID Ops	issues, milestones, labels and merge requests
Catalogue	catalogue/ (Product Catalogue standard)

5. Working with AI agents on this

Give an agent this sheet as context (see the agents track on writing context files) and it will use your words correctly. Without it, an agent will invent its own meanings.

	With the cheat sheet
What the PDM decides	Which framework to apply, and what the product’s own answers are.
What agents do	Check your documents for missing letters. Convert between a long document and a one-page summary. Keep terminology consistent.
How the PDM verifies	Compare the agent’s output with this sheet. If it adds or renames a letter, reject it.

A brief you can adapt:

Context: the file frameworks/cheat-sheet.md defines our terms.
Task: read planning/orbital.md and list every ORBITAL element that is
missing, empty or only a guess. Do not fill anything in.

6. Common mistakes and how to avoid them

• Mixing up the two Ds. ANDROID has two D’s: Design and Deliver. Learn the seven in order: Advance, Network, Design, Research, Optimize, Implement, Deliver.
• Using STAR for the industry. STAR describes one project. UBF describes the industry.
• Using the same letters from different frameworks. “Logistics” appears in ORBITAL and LAUNCH, with related meanings. Say which one you mean.
• Believing PHANTOMS is one fixed stack. It is a family, and the letters are jobs.

7. Practice

1. Copy the cheat sheet into your repo as frameworks/cheat-sheet.md.
2. Add a column My product to the Pick a framework by question table. Write one real question from your own project in each row.
3. Close the page. On paper, write the seven ORBITAL letters, the four STAR parts and the seven ANDROID areas from memory. Check yourself and mark what you missed.
4. Commit the file with a message like Add framework cheat sheet with my product's questions.

Deliverable: frameworks/cheat-sheet.md in git with the extra column filled for at least five rows.

8. Checklist

• I can spell out ORBITAL, STAR and ANDROID Ops without looking.
• I know the difference between the SuperNova LAUNCH letters and a delivery pipeline.
• I know PHANTOMS is a family and A means AI, never one vendor.
• I know which file each framework leaves in git.
• My cheat-sheet copy has my own questions in it.