Identify Assumptions Existing
Skill Verified ActiveIdentify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility. Uses multi-perspective devil's advocate thinking. Use when stress-testing a feature idea, doing risk assessment, or preparing for assumption mapping.
To help product teams stress-test feature ideas by proactively identifying and assessing potential risks and assumptions before development.
Features
- Identifies risky assumptions across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility.
- Employs multi-perspective devil's advocate thinking.
- Provides guidance on confidence levels and testing suggestions for each assumption.
- Supports analysis of existing products and feature ideas.
Use Cases
- Stress-testing a new feature idea before committing to development.
- Performing risk assessment for product roadmap planning.
- Preparing for assumption mapping exercises in product strategy.
- Validating the foundational assumptions of a proposed feature.
Non-Goals
- Developing the feature itself.
- Prioritizing features (though it informs this process).
- Conducting market research or user interviews directly.
- Providing a full product strategy or business model canvas.
Workflow
- Understand the product, objective, market segment, and feature idea.
- Adopt Product Manager, Designer, and Engineer perspectives.
- Identify assumptions across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility.
- For each assumption: note potential issues, confidence level, and testing suggestions.
- Output a constructive analysis to strengthen the feature idea.
Practices
- Risk Assessment
- Assumption Testing
- Devil's Advocate Thinking
Trust
- info:Issues AttentionOpen issues (90d): 8, Closed issues (90d): 0. The ratio suggests maintainers are not actively closing issues within the last 90 days, but the absolute number of open issues is not excessively high.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add phuryn/pm-skills/plugin install pm-product-discovery@pm-skillsQuality Score
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