A 7-step discovery pipeline for product managers: reconcile messy interview transcripts, extract evidence per persona, find where personas collide, frame the problem, scope v1 with a cut list, pick the riskiest assumption, then build and critique a prototype.
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Skills 9 in the Claude listing
Discovery to mvp Takes the PM through the discovery pipeline one step at a time, from raw customer interview transcripts to a scoped v1, a prototype brief, a built prototype and an honest critique, showing the results Interview guide Writes a discovery interview guide before customer or stakeholder calls — learning goals, the riskiest assumption behind each, and event-anchored questions per persona, plus recording setup that makes Mvp scope cutlist Scopes a v1 from a framed problem and discovery evidence — what v1 does, what it explicitly doesn't, a cut list where every cut has a reason, a cost and a revisit trigger, and an adoption plan for get Persona collide Compares two or more persona extracts to find where people want opposite things, tell different stories about the same event, or both assume someone else owns a step — including a workflow map with an Persona extract Pulls one persona's evidence out of a merged interview transcript — pains with verbatim quotes and severity, workarounds, numbers, prompted vs unprompted signals, stated vs revealed gaps, what must no Problem framing Turns discovery evidence into a solution-free problem statement under 80 words, compares it with how the original brief framed the problem, offers rejected alternative framings with reasons, and defin Prototype brief Ranks a v1's assumptions by risk and testability, picks the single riskiest one a prototype can test, and writes a build-ready prototype brief — one flow, realistic mock data drawn from the interviews Prototype build critique Builds the single-flow prototype described in a prototype brief and then critiques the proposal and prototype as a skeptical head of product — is the "why" clear for the customer and the business, doe Transcript reconcile Cleans and merges one or two auto-generated transcripts of the same call into a single trustworthy transcript with correct speaker attribution, glossary fixes, numbered turn IDs and a log of every jud