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Problem Statement Sharpening

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Define the problem before the solution.

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[ADD EVIDENCE] is an editorial flag, not a blank to fill. Replace or resolve each flag before you use the result.

Sharpen a problem statement. Draft problem or feature idea: [DRAFT_PROBLEM]. Who has the problem: [USERS]. Evidence so far (interviews, data, support tickets): [EVIDENCE]. Business context: [CONTEXT].

Return: (1) the draft rewritten as a problem, not a solution; (2) a one-sentence statement in the form "[User] struggles to [job] because [cause], which results in [consequence]"; (3) an evidence table: Claim | Evidence | Strength (anecdote, repeated pattern, measured) | What would disprove it; (4) five assumptions the idea depends on, each with a cheap test; (5) three alternative framings of the problem that might lead to different solutions; and (6) a list of questions to ask users.

Example of the rewrite: Before "We need a dashboard." After "Team leads cannot tell which projects are behind without asking five people, so they find out late; measured by 11 late escalations last quarter."

Mark claims without evidence as [ADD EVIDENCE]. Finish with go/no-go criteria for further discovery.

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Draft: "We need a dashboard."
Problem statement: Team leads struggle to see which projects are behind because status lives in five spreadsheets, so they find out late; measured by 11 late escalations last quarter.
Evidence table: Claim "leads find out late" - 6 of 8 interviews and 11 escalations (measured). Claim "spreadsheets are the cause" - assumption.
Assumptions to test: leads would check a dashboard weekly (test: ask three leads to use a mock-up for two weeks); data can be pulled automatically (spike, one day).
Alternative framings: the real problem may be unclear status definitions rather than missing tools.
Go/no-go: proceed if two of three leads use the mock-up.

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