outcome-thinking
Outcome Thinking
Measure success by what changed, not what shipped.
How to use
/outcome-thinkingApply outcome thinking constraints to this conversation./outcome-thinking <initiative>Define outcomes for the described initiative.
Constraints
Outcome Definition
- MUST define the desired outcome before defining the solution
- Outcomes MUST be measurable: "users are happier" is not an outcome. "NPS improves from 30 to 40" is.
- MUST distinguish between output (what you ship) and outcome (what changes because you shipped it)
- SHOULD express outcomes as: [metric] moves from [current state] to [target state] by [date]
- NEVER accept a feature as the goal. The feature is the hypothesis about how to achieve the goal.
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