Product discovery

Turn interviews and product signals into risks, hypotheses, and next experiments.

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Product discoveryTurn interviews and product signals into risks, hypotheses, and next experiments.

Discovery brief — <opportunity>

Lead: <name> · Window: <dates> · Decision: <date>

Product evidence converging into a clear strategic direction

What we observed

“<Exact customer language that changes how the team sees the problem.>”

SignalStrengthSource
<Pattern>Repeated<5 interviews / event data>
People create a second doc to compare versionsRepeated7 sessions

Opportunity map

~mermaid flowchart TD O[Desired outcome] --> P1[Problem one] O --> P2[Problem two] P1 --> E[Smallest experiment] ~

Riskiest assumptions

  • Value: <why anyone cares>
  • Usability: <what may be misunderstood>
  • Feasibility: <technical unknown>

Next experiment

If <change>, then <behavior>, because <insight>. Success is <threshold>; stop when <failure rule>.