🧩Frameworks and Templates

Here are some frameworks and templates to help you navigate your product efforts:

• Design Sprint: A time-constrained, collaborative process for solving complex problems and validating solutions through prototyping and user testing.

• Opportunity Solution Tree: A visual framework that helps teams explore and prioritize potential solutions by mapping them against identified opportunities.

• Weighted Impact Scoring: A method of evaluating and ranking ideas or features based on predefined criteria and assigning weights to measure their impact on overall objectives.

• RICE Prioritization: A prioritization framework that combines Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort factors to systematically rank and focus on high-value initiatives.

• User Journey Mapping: A visualization technique to understand and illustrate the end-to-end experience of a user with a product or service, identifying pain points and opportunities for improvement.

• Kano Model: A theory for product development and customer satisfaction that categorizes features into basic, performance, and delight factors to guide prioritization based on customer preferences.

• Root Cause Analysis - 5 Whys: A problem-solving technique that involves iteratively asking "Why?" five times to identify the underlying cause of an issue and address it at its source.

• Jobs-to-be-Done: A framework that focuses on understanding the fundamental jobs or tasks that customers hire a product or service to accomplish, emphasizing functional and emotional needs.

• Double Diamond: A design thinking framework that involves divergent and convergent thinking stages to explore problem spaces broadly and then focus on specific solutions.

• Hooked Method: A model for product design and user engagement, popularized by Nir Eyal, that emphasizes creating habit-forming experiences through Trigger, Action, Variable Reward, and Investment phases.