opportunity-solution-treelisted

# Opportunity Solution Tree > The connective tissue between a business outcome and the experiments that move it. ## What this skill is A workflow for building an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) - the discovery framework popularized by Teresa Torres that anchors discovery work to a clear outcome, surfaces opportunities (unmet customer needs, pain points, desires), generates multiple solution candidates, and identifies the assumption tests that need to run before committing. Produces a living artifact a product trio can update weekly. ## What it solves - Discovery work that wanders without a measurable outcome - Premature commitment to one solution without exploring alternatives - Building features before validating the underlying opportunity - Confusion about which assumption to test next - Roadmaps that conflate outputs (features shipped) with outcomes (customer behavior changed) ## When to invoke - Starting a new discovery cycle for a product area - Restructuring a quarterly plan that's grown feature-heavy - Deciding what to research next when multiple opportunities compete - Onboarding a new product trio to a shared discovery model - Reviewing why a shipped feature didn't move the outcome ## Phase 1: Define the outcome at the top The root of every tree is a **single, measurable outcome** - a customer behavior the business cares about. Outcome statement format: > Increase [metric] from [baseline] to [target] by [date]. Rules for a good outcome: - It is a behavior,