solution-definition

Convert customer discovery insights into a testable product vision by drafting a PRFAQ narrative and mapping a Closed World inventory to align stakeholders before ideation. This ensures your solution vision remains grounded in actual user needs and available resources.

The PRFAQ framework is a product management technique that drafts a press release and FAQ to articulate customer experience and value proposition before development. You need it after customer discovery to align teams around a clear, testable solution vision.

Closed World mapping constrains ideation by inventorying internal and external components within your immediate environment, forcing teams to innovate using existing assets rather than seeking external solutions. This produces a resource-bound map that guides subsequent planning.

Using the PRFAQ framework without completing customer discovery is not recommended because the solution vision requires valid discovery outputs to ensure alignment. You need populated customer insights to produce a well-formed PRFAQ narrative that accurately reflects user needs.

The best way to bridge customer insight to a concrete solution vision is combining the PRFAQ framework with Closed World mapping in an interactive workflow. This approach translates raw discovery data into a north-star artifact guiding technical planning and stakeholder buy-in.

Generating a Closed World map and PRFAQ requires completed customer discovery outputs, a valid SKILL.md frontmatter with name and description, and data to populate internal and external component inventories. These inputs ensure the resulting solution vision is well-formed and testable.