01.5.1 · Skill in Opportunity validation
Assumption mapping
Listing what must be true for an idea to work and ranking the risky parts.
Assumption mapping writes down the beliefs an idea depends on and sorts them by importance and by how little evidence supports them. The riskiest assumptions get tested first. It turns a vague worry into a concrete list of things to check.
Resources
2- articleStart hereAssumption testing: everything you need to know to get started ↗Teresa Torres (Product Talk) · 2023 · 20 min
How to break an idea into its assumptions and test the riskiest ones quickly, before building.
- articleGo deeperOpportunity solution trees: visualize your discovery ↗Teresa Torres (Product Talk) · 2023 · 25 min
Connects an outcome to the user needs and pain points behind it, then to solutions and the tests that check them.
Tools
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