opportunity-solution-trees

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps product teams avoid jumping to solutions by providing a structured framework to map customer opportunities to desired business outcomes, ensuring that development efforts are aligned with validated customer needs.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Outcome Definition: Clearly articulate and focus on a single, measurable business outcome.
• Opportunity Mapping: Identify and prioritize customer needs, pains, or desires based on research.
• Solution Brainstorming: Generate and compare multiple potential solutions for each prioritized opportunity.
• Experiment Design: Define fast, cheap tests to validate solution assumptions.
• Use Case: A product team wants to "increase 7-day retention to 40%". They use this Skill to identify customer opportunities like "struggle to find relevant content" and brainstorm solutions like "personalized content feed" or "onboarding tutorial improvements," then design experiments to test these.

Quick Start

Use the opportunity-solution-trees skill to help structure discovery around the outcome "increase user engagement".