Opportunity Solution Tree

You know that moment when someone asks for a feature and you're pretty sure they haven't thought through the actual problem? This walks you through building an Opportunity Solution Tree, the Teresa Torres framework that forces you to extract the real outcome, map out customer problems (not solutions disguised as problems), then generate testable solutions before you write any code. It's built on the workshop-facilitation protocol, so it asks one question at a time with numbered options. You paste in the vague stakeholder request, it helps you identify three opportunities that could move the metric, generates three solutions per opportunity, then scores them on feasibility and impact to pick a POC. Honestly most useful when you need to slow down a feature factory situation and do actual discovery work.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill opportunity-solution-tree --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Purpose

Guide product managers through creating an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) by extracting target outcomes from stakeholder requests, generating opportunity options (problems to solve), mapping potential solutions, and selecting the best proof-of-concept (POC) based on feasibility, impact, and market fit. Use this to move from vague product requests to structured discovery, ensuring teams solve the right problems before jumping to solutions—avoiding "feature factory" syndrome and premature convergence on ideas.

This is not a roadmap generator—it's a structured discovery process that outputs validated opportunities with testable solution hypotheses.

Input

Works best with: The stakeholder request or the target outcome you're starting from. Also useful: Customer evidence you already have, constraints, and solutions already being pushed.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

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Details

Repository: github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-skills
Categories: DevOps & CI/CD, Productivity & Planning
First seen: Apr 16, 2026