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Build an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests. Use when a stakeholder request needs problem framing before you decide what to build. Build an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) to structure product discovery — map a desired outcome to opportunities, solutions, and experiments. Based on Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits. Use when structuring discovery work, mapping opportunities to solutions, or deciding what to build next.
Both copies describe the same four-level Opportunity Solution Tree, but they are not interchangeable. The phuryn copy is a concise, self-contained procedure that adds the Opportunity Score formula (Importance × (1 − Satisfaction)) and specific experiment design fields (hypothesis, method, metric, success threshold). The deanpeters copy is an interactive facilitation skill that adds a two-phase process (generate OST, then select a POC), explicit anti-patterns, when-to-use/when-not-to-use guidance, and a dependency on a separate workshop-facilitation protocol. Crowning one would hide the other's real alternative workflow and scoring/facilitation constraints.