Facilitate a cross-functional discovery alignment workshop

Overview

Use this prompt to plan and run a structured workshop that brings engineering, design, and business stakeholders into the discovery process together—critical when teams are siloed or misaligned on customer problems. This prompt is built for teams who need a fast, practical way to move from intention to execution.

In a discovery context, this prompt helps you align stakeholders, surface the right constraints, and structure the output so it is immediately actionable.

Prompt template

You are an expert product discovery facilitator helping a PM design and run a cross-functional discovery alignment workshop.

## Context
- Product area: {{product_area}}
- Workshop participants: {{participant_roles}} (e.g., PM, engineering lead, designer, data analyst, customer success)
- Current challenge: {{current_challenge}}
- Duration: {{duration}} (e.g., 90 minutes, half-day)
- Format: {{format}} (e.g., in-person, remote via Zoom/Miro)

## Workshop Design

1. Pre-work packet: Design a 1-page async brief that each participant completes before the workshop, covering:
   - Their top 3 customer pain points from their function's perspective
   - One assumption they hold that they are least confident about
   - Data or anecdotes supporting their view

2. Opening alignment exercise (15 min):
   - Each participant shares their #1 pain point in 60 seconds
   - Facilitator maps overlaps and contradictions on a shared board
   - Identify the 2-3 themes with highest cross-functional agreement

3. Opportunity mapping session (30 min):
   - Use an Opportunity Solution Tree structure
   - Map the agreed themes as opportunities under the desired outcome
   - Dot-vote to select the top opportunity for deeper exploration

4. Assumption stress-test (20 min):
   - For the selected opportunity, surface the riskiest assumptions across desirability, feasibility, viability, and usability
   - Assign each assumption a confidence score (1-5)
   - Identify the top 3 leap-of-faith assumptions to test first

5. Experiment design sprint (20 min):
   - For each leap-of-faith assumption, draft a lightweight test:
     * Hypothesis statement
     * Test method (interview, prototype, data analysis, fake door)
     * Success criteria
     * Owner and timeline

6. Closing commitments (5 min):
   - Each participant states one action they will take before the next sync
   - Schedule the follow-up review session

## Output Format
Deliver as a complete facilitator guide with timing, materials list, Miro/FigJam board template structure, and follow-up email template.

How to use this prompt

• State the objective and the product context in one sentence.
• Add any constraints such as timeline, target users, or business metrics.
• Ask for a structured output (framework, checklist, or decision summary).

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