Discovery Kick-off Workshop

This workshop toolkit will help the team to kick start a product discovery process.

Goals

Have the team align from the get go, give space to raise concerns, estimate risks and take a quick dive into the problem clarity so that design and research workload can be planned. It contains 3 team activities:

• Knowns and Unknowns

• Hopes and Fears by IBM

• Research/Design prioritization matrix by Jeanette Fuccella

When to use

In the beginning of a sprint or an initiative.

Prerequisites

Initial hypothesis/problem statement.

Roles involved

Product designer, Product Manager, Engineering manager, Product Researcher + other roles. Appoint ONE Facilitator.

Ways of doing*

Allocate at least an hour to this workshop. Before starting make sure everyone has read hypothesis or problem statement. Knowns & Unknowns and Hopes & Fears can be done async or live in a session. Design and Research Prioritisation is best done in a sync way since there is a lot of room for discussion and decisions need to be made. Happy workshopping!

*Feel free to adjust ways of doing to your liking and team agreements.