Product Thinking — Connected Exercise Path

Begin with evidence and a useful result

Use Stakeholder Map and User Stories with real workflow notes, or explicitly labeled hypotheses when evidence is not yet available. Distinguish the people using, buying, paying for and operating the product. Choose a small useful outcome and observable acceptance checks before turning the scope into a roadmap.

For help supplying readable workflow notes, see Give AI Text or a File to Work From.

Carry the work into the next step

Carry approved needs, evidence, constraints and dependencies into Roadmap Builder. Compare a few candidates, keep unknown effort and benefit explicit, and choose a feasible first item. Inspect what would change the order. If stories lack evidence or a dependency blocks delivery, return to the source work rather than cover the gap with a score.

Use only the support you need

Decision Matrix can support a genuine comparison, and Decision Record can preserve a consequential choice. Finance Analyzer fits a real personal-spending question; it is not a startup forecast or substitute for product economics. None is mandatory preparation for this path.

Open the exercises

• Ex25 — Stakeholder Map and User Stories
• Ex24 — Roadmap Builder
• Ex06 — Decision Matrix Builder
• Ex05 — Finance Analyzer
• Ex23 — Decision Record

Follow the selected exercise’s instructions and checks; you choose which corrections to use.

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