Product Strategy Session

Teresa Torres Opportunity Solution Tree: outcome, opportunity space, solutions, experiments. Use when someone says "opportunity tree", "OST", "opportunity solution tree", "discovery", "what should we build", "map opportunities", "Teresa Torres", "continuous discovery".

Design experiments to test assumptions for an existing product — prototypes, A/B tests, spikes, and other low-effort validation methods. Use when validating assumptions, testing feature ideas cheaply, or planning product experiments.

Use when preparing roadmap narratives, release notes, changelogs, or stakeholder updates tailored for executives, engineering teams, and customers.

Build a weekly cadence of customer touchpoints using Opportunity Solution Trees, assumption mapping, and interview snapshots. Use when the user mentions "continuous discovery", "opportunity solution tree", "weekly interviews", "assumption testing", "discovery habits", "product trio", or "outcome-based roadmap". Also trigger when setting up regular customer feedback loops, prioritizing which experiments to run, or connecting discovery insights to delivery work. Covers experience mapping, co-creation, and prioritizing opportunities. For interview technique, see mom-test. For team structure, see inspired-product.

The Jobs-to-be-Done framework as applied product methodology. Job statements, struggling moments, hire and fire criteria, the difference between feature-thinking and job-thinking. Honest about where JTBD adds clarity (discovery, prioritization, positioning) and where it becomes performative ritual (job-statement workshops that do not drive decisions, persona-theater disguised as JTBD). Triggers on jobs-to-be-done, JTBD, job statements, struggling moments, hire criteria, fire criteria, switch triggers, functional emotional social jobs, outcome-driven innovation. Also triggers when a team is over-relying on feature-request lists or persona archetypes that do not drive product decisions, when a positioning conversation needs the framing JTBD provides, or when discovery is producing outputs that do not connect to product strategy.

Define product positioning by mapping competitive alternatives, unique attributes, and best-fit customers to the right market category. Use when the user mentions "positioning", "competitive alternatives", "how to position", "market category", "why customers dont get it", "positioning canvas", "repositioning", or "category creation". Also trigger when launching a new product, entering a crowded market, or diagnosing why prospects dont understand the products value. Covers positioning canvas and team workshops. For customer jobs analysis, see jobs-to-be-done. For go-to-market, see crossing-the-chasm.