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Opportunity Solution Tree

❓What is it

  • A visual aid that can help you find the best place to focus your team’s energies on which problems to solve, whilst ensuring you consider enough opportunities.

👥Who

  • Bring together the team and other key stakeholders with insight on the problem/opportunity area for an initial session - recommend around 5-8 people
  • Then use a much smaller group to review and refine in a follow up session - no more than three people

🛠 Running the technique

  • Have the Product Lead/Business Owner pick a desired outcome.
  • Generate opportunities (or problem statements) for achieving the desired outcome. Discuss as a team. (tip: if your team jumps straight to solutions, ask them what specific problem their solution solves, and capture that).
  • Brainstorm solutions to specific opportunities. Discuss as a team.
  • Have the team vote on the solutions with the most potential for success
  • Prioritise hypothesis to test for the top solution ideas.

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