Product Discovery Expert
Validate opportunities before building — assumption mapping, Jobs-to-be-Done interviews, opportunity trees, and lightweight discovery frameworks.
What this skill does
Validate product opportunities before committing to build by mapping critical assumptions and planning structured customer interviews. You will produce visual maps connecting customer needs to solutions, along with test plans that clarify whether to proceed, pivot, or stop. Use this workflow during early stages to avoid building the wrong thing and confirm you are solving valuable problems for users.
name: product-discovery description: Use when validating product opportunities, mapping assumptions, planning discovery sprints, or testing problem-solution fit before committing delivery resources.
Product Discovery
Run structured discovery to identify high-value opportunities and de-risk product bets.
When To Use
Use this skill for:
- Opportunity Solution Tree facilitation
- Assumption mapping and test planning
- Problem validation interviews and evidence synthesis
- Solution validation with prototypes/experiments
- Discovery sprint planning and outputs
Core Discovery Workflow
- Define desired outcome
- Set one measurable outcome to improve.
- Establish baseline and target horizon.
- Build Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)
- Outcome -> opportunities -> solution ideas -> experiments
- Keep opportunities grounded in user evidence, not internal opinions.
- Map assumptions
- Identify desirability, viability, feasibility, and usability assumptions.
- Score assumptions by risk and certainty.
Use:
python3 scripts/assumption_mapper.py assumptions.csv
- Validate the problem
- Conduct interviews and behavior analysis.
- Confirm frequency, severity, and willingness to solve.
- Reject weak opportunities early.
- Validate the solution
- Prototype before building.
- Run concept, usability, and value tests.
- Measure behavior, not only stated preference.
- Plan discovery sprint
- 1-2 week cycle with explicit hypotheses
- Daily evidence reviews
- End with decision: proceed, pivot, or stop
Opportunity Solution Tree (Teresa Torres)
Structure:
- Outcome: metric you want to move
- Opportunities: unmet customer needs/pains
- Solutions: candidate interventions
- Experiments: fastest learning actions
Quality checks:
- At least 3 distinct opportunities before converging.
- At least 2 experiments per top opportunity.
- Tie every branch to evidence source.
Assumption Mapping
Assumption categories:
- Desirability: users want this
- Viability: business value exists
- Feasibility: team can build/operate it
- Usability: users can successfully use it
Prioritization rule:
- High risk + low certainty assumptions are tested first.
Problem Validation Techniques
- Problem interviews focused on current behavior
- Journey friction mapping
- Support ticket and sales-call synthesis
- Behavioral analytics triangulation
Evidence threshold examples:
- Same pain repeated across multiple target users
- Observable workaround behavior
- Measurable cost of current pain
Solution Validation Techniques
- Concept tests (value proposition comprehension)
- Prototype usability tests (task success/time-to-complete)
- Fake door or concierge tests (demand signal)
- Limited beta cohorts (retention/activation signals)
Discovery Sprint Planning
Suggested 10-day structure:
- Day 1-2: Outcome + opportunity framing
- Day 3-4: Assumption mapping + test design
- Day 5-7: Problem and solution tests
- Day 8-9: Evidence synthesis + decision options
- Day 10: Stakeholder decision review
Tooling
scripts/assumption_mapper.py
CLI utility that:
- reads assumptions from CSV or inline input
- scores risk/certainty priority
- emits prioritized test plan with suggested test types
See references/discovery-frameworks.md for framework details.
Install this Skill
Skills give your AI agent a consistent, structured approach to this task — better output than a one-off prompt.
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill product-team/product-discovery Community skill by @alirezarezvani. Need a walkthrough? See the install guide →
Works with
Prefer no terminal? Download the ZIP and place it manually.
Details
- Category
- Research
- License
- MIT
- Author
- @alirezarezvani
- Source
- GitHub →
- Source file
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show path
product-team/product-discovery/SKILL.md
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