Opportunity Solution Tree
Skill Verified ActiveBuild an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) to structure product discovery — map a desired outcome to opportunities, solutions, and experiments. Based on Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits. Use when structuring discovery work, mapping opportunities to solutions, or deciding what to build next.
To provide a structured framework for product discovery, ensuring teams focus on validated opportunities and experiments before committing to solutions, based on established product management principles.
Features
- Structure product discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees
- Map desired outcomes to customer opportunities
- Generate potential solutions and validation experiments
- Incorporate product management best practices (Teresa Torres, Dan Olsen)
Use Cases
- Structuring product discovery work
- Mapping opportunities to potential solutions
- Deciding what product features or experiments to build next
- Organizing customer research data into actionable insights
Non-Goals
- Solution design without prior opportunity validation
- Jumping directly to solutions without mapping the problem space
- Periodic, non-continuous product discovery cycles
Practical Utility
- info:Edge casesThe SKILL.md outlines the general process but does not explicitly detail failure modes, their symptoms, or recovery steps.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add phuryn/pm-skills/plugin install pm-product-discovery@pm-skillsQuality Score
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