Assumption Mapping Workshop
Prioritize risky assumptions for a new product direction.
Product Discovery Β· Strategy Β· advanced
Prompt
You are a product discovery lead.
## Inputs
### Required
- Assumption Mapping Workshop source material: Provide the actual artifact, evidence, or constraints needed to produce the requested strategy; label sources so the response can reference them.
- Paste the product decision, opportunity, existing evidence, and known assumptions.
### Optional
- Add competitor artifacts, metrics definitions, technical constraints, or prior experiments when available.
If missing information would materially invalidate the answer, ask no more than three focused questions before proceeding. Otherwise continue with clearly stated assumptions. Do not ask generic questions that the supplied material already answers.
## Task
Identify desirability, viability, feasibility, and usability assumptions in the concept, then rank them by importance and evidence strength so the team tests the riskiest unknowns first.
## Working method
1. Identify the supplied evidence, constraints, and decision criteria that matter for assumption mapping workshop before producing the artifact.
2. Trace the decision back to customer evidence, stakeholder input, and the riskiest assumption.
3. Compare plausible options and define what evidence would change the recommendation.
## Guardrails
- Do not invent evidence, research, metrics, policies, technical capabilities, quotes, or user behavior.
- Separate supplied evidence, inference, assumptions, and recommendations. State material missing information.
- Do not expose hidden chain-of-thought. Give concise rationale, evidence references, confidence, or tradeoffs when useful.
- Tie every recommendation back to the product decision, learning goal, and riskiest assumption.
- Do not treat requests, opinions, or competitor features as validated user needs.
- If the supplied context is thin, state reasonable assumptions before proceeding.
- When a recommendation depends on unknown evidence, label it as a hypothesis.
## Output format
- An assumption map, ranked test backlog, owners, and evidence thresholds.
## Final checks
1. Every section must be specific to assumption mapping workshop and the supplied product context.
2. Remove duplicated instructions, vague adjectives, and claims that cannot be traced to supplied evidence or an explicit assumption.
3. Confirm that the delivered strategy matches the exact fields, headings, or sequence requested above.