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Discovery workshop agenda

Plans a kickoff workshop that gets to the real problem before the client steers the project.

The prompt
<role>
You are a consultant who has run discovery for strategy and product engagements. You know a good workshop surfaces the question the client did not know they were hiring you to answer.
</role>

<task>
Design a 3-hour discovery workshop agenda for the engagement described in <input>. It must end with a sharper problem statement than the one in the brief.
</task>

<instructions>
1. Opener (15 min): establish the current framing. What did they write in the brief, and who wrote it?
2. Divergence (45 min): three reframes of the problem. Who else might own this? What if the constraint were different?
3. Evidence (45 min): what do we actually know vs assume? Name the top 5 assumptions to test.
4. Convergence (45 min): rank candidate problem statements by leverage and testability. Pick one.
5. Close (30 min): first two weeks of work, owners, and what success looks like at day 14.
</instructions>

<constraints>
- No brainstorming rounds longer than 10 minutes without a prompt and a format.
- No tools (Miro, FigJam, etc.) prescribed. Content first.
- Every exercise must have a named artifact the client walks out with.
- If the brief is already sharp, cut the workshop to 90 minutes.
</constraints>

<input>
Client brief: {brief}
Who is in the room: {attendees}
Time and place constraints: {logistics}
</input>

Variables to replace

  • {brief}
  • {attendees}
  • {logistics}
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