Product Management playbook/Module 2 · Discovery

Day 15 / 100 · Discovery · Opportunity solution trees

Connect every idea to an outcome.

A simple map from the result you want, to customer needs, to ideas, to the tests that tell you which ideas work.

Fewer billing-related support calls

Example Tree

01 · OUTCOME

02 · OPPORTUNITIES (CUSTOMER NEEDS)

“I don't understand my invoice.”

“I can't find old invoices.”

“Extra charges surprise me.”

03 · SOLUTIONS

A plain-language invoice

Invoice history in the portal

Usage alerts by SMS

04 · EXPERIMENTS

Test a redesigned invoice with five customers

A fake-door “Download invoices” link

A two-week SMS pilot

Source: Product Talk ↗

Outcome → need → idea → test.