How does this skill help with customer interviews?

It applies 'The Mom Test' rules, helping you avoid leading questions and focus on specific past behaviors rather than hypothetical future opinions to get honest feedback.

Can this skill help me avoid building features nobody uses?

Yes, its 'Iron Law' is 'No solution without understanding the problem first,' focusing on testing assumptions through small experiments before full-scale building.

What frameworks does the Product Discovery skill support?

It supports Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) for motivations, Opportunity Solution Trees (OST) for strategy mapping, The Mom Test for interviews, and Continuous Discovery for ongoing research habits.

When should I use Product Discovery vs Product Prioritization?

Use Product Discovery when you are exploring the problem space and validating ideas. Use Product Prioritization once you have a list of validated opportunities that need to be ranked for delivery.

Product Discovery

Name: Product Discovery
Author: petrogurcak

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Productivity & Workflow

Guides customer research and idea validation using JTBD, Opportunity Solution Trees, and The Mom Test to minimize product risk.

The Product Discovery skill helps product teams move from 'feature-factory' thinking to outcome-driven development by providing a structured framework for research and validation. It integrates industry-standard methodologies including Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) for motivation mapping, Teresa Torres's Opportunity Solution Trees (OST) for connecting metrics to solutions, and Rob Fitzpatrick's 'The Mom Test' for conducting unbiased customer interviews. This skill is essential for teams needing to validate ideas, structure user research, and ensure they are solving real customer problems before committing engineering resources to development.

Key Features

01Provides 'The Mom Test' protocols for conducting non-leading, high-signal customer interviews.

02Establishes a continuous discovery cadence for the 'Product Trio' (PM, Design, Tech Lead).

03Implements Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) to uncover deep customer motivations and underserved 'jobs'.

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05Uses Opportunity Solution Trees (OST) to visually connect desired business outcomes to customer opportunities.

06Guides the design of experiments to test value, usability, feasibility, and viability assumptions.

Use Cases

01Defining measurable product outcomes and mapping them to specific customer pain points.

02Validating a new product or feature idea before starting the development phase.

03Structuring user research and synthesizing patterns from customer interview data.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add petrogurcak/skills product-discovery

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Key Features

01Provides 'The Mom Test' protocols for conducting non-leading, high-signal customer interviews.

02Establishes a continuous discovery cadence for the 'Product Trio' (PM, Design, Tech Lead).

03Implements Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) to uncover deep customer motivations and underserved 'jobs'.

040 GitHub stars

05Uses Opportunity Solution Trees (OST) to visually connect desired business outcomes to customer opportunities.

06Guides the design of experiments to test value, usability, feasibility, and viability assumptions.

Use Cases

01Defining measurable product outcomes and mapping them to specific customer pain points.

02Validating a new product or feature idea before starting the development phase.

03Structuring user research and synthesizing patterns from customer interview data.