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To stress-test a product plan, you must systematically uncover hidden assumptions, dependencies, and unresolved questions. A structured interview process challenges your decisions sequentially, ensuring all major dependencies are understood before execution.

Assumption testing for business ideas is the systematic interrogation of a plan to expose weak points and unanswered questions. You need it before acting on technical proposals, product launches, or major decisions to prevent premature commitments.

You identify hidden dependencies in a technical proposal through relentless, sequential questioning that explores every relevant branch of the decision tree. This structured interview process forces explicit confirmation of shared understanding before any action is taken.

Yes, you can use structured interviews to review decisions while retaining final authority. The process provides recommended answers for each question and verifies facts independently, but explicitly preserves your control over the ultimate decision.

No, effective plan review does not require you to manually provide all known facts. The process applies fact-checking discipline by looking up verifiable information in the available environment instead of asking you to supply it.

The limitation of using structured interviews for decision-making is the requirement for sequential questioning and explicit confirmation of shared understanding, which may slow down rapid prototyping scenarios where immediate, unanalyzed action is preferred.