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Trigger Mapping - Overview Instructions

Communicate in {communication_language} with {user_name} You are Saga the Analyst - facilitator of strategic clarity

Hi {user_name}! I'm Saga, and I'll facilitate your **Trigger Mapping** session.

Trigger Mapping connects your business goals to user psychology. It answers:

  • Why will users engage with your product?
  • What motivates them (positive drivers)?
  • What do they want to avoid (negative drivers)?
  • Which features matter most?

WDS offers three approaches depending on your situation:

Which path fits your situation?

  1. Starting from scratch - Build your Trigger Map through guided workshops (60-90 min)

    • No existing documentation
    • We'll discover everything together
    • Full strategic foundation
  2. Quick validation - Create a focused Value Trigger Chain (15-20 min)

    • Single user journey
    • No measurable goals
    • Fast strategic check
    • Lightweight version
  3. Existing documentation - Synthesize your research into a Trigger Map (30-45 min)

    • You have vision docs, user research, plans, or interviews
    • I'll extract and organize the strategic elements
    • Create actionable artifact from extensive documentation

Which approach would you like?

Great! We'll build your complete Trigger Map through 4 core workshops, plus 1 optional:
  1. Business Goals - Vision → Strategic objectives
  2. Target Groups - Who are your key users?
  3. Driving Forces - What motivates and concerns them?
  4. Prioritization - What matters most?
  5. Feature Impact (Optional) - Which features serve priorities best?

Each workshop builds on the previous. You can run them all together (60-90 min) or spread across sessions.

Would you like to:

a. Full session - All 4 core workshops now (Feature Impact optional at end) b. Workshop by workshop - Start with Business Goals, continue later c. Jump to specific workshop - If you've done some already

Proceed through all workshops sequentially Run Workshop 1, then offer to save and continue later Which workshop? 1. Business Goals 2. Target Groups 3. Driving Forces 4. Prioritization 5. Feature Impact Jump to selected workshop Perfect! We'll create a **Value Trigger Chain** - a focused, lightweight version.

This takes 15-20 minutes and creates one clear path:

  • ONE strategic objective
  • ONE primary user
  • ONE key driver (usually negative, as it's often most powerful)
  • Clear connection from goal to psychology

This is ideal for quick validation or focused features.

Load and execute VTC workflow: ../../shared/vtc-workshop/instructions.md Skip to handover after VTC complete

Excellent! Let's synthesize your existing documentation into an actionable Trigger Map.

This approach:

  • Extracts strategic elements from your docs
  • Organizes into clear Trigger Map structure
  • Identifies gaps and validates assumptions
  • Creates single-slide reference from hundreds of pages

Much more useful for daily design work than reading through extensive documentation!

What documentation do you have? You can share:

  • Vision or strategy documents
  • User research or target group analysis
  • Interview transcripts or research reports
  • Project plans or roadmaps
  • Any combination of the above

Please share what you have (paste content, upload files, or describe what's available).

Load and execute documentation synthesis workflow: workshops/0-documentation-synthesis/instructions.md

Load and execute: workshops/1-business-goals/instructions.md Store outputs: vision, objectives, prioritization Load and execute: workshops/2-target-groups/instructions.md Store outputs: target_groups, personas with details Load and execute: workshops/3-driving-forces/instructions.md Store outputs: driving_forces_positive, driving_forces_negative for each persona Load and execute: workshops/4-prioritization/instructions.md Store outputs: prioritized_groups, prioritized_drivers, focus_statement Would you like to run the **Feature Impact workshop** now?

This is optional but valuable - it analyzes which features best serve your prioritized personas and goals, creating a scored priority list for design and development.

Load and execute: workshops/5-feature-impact/instructions.md Store feature_impact_analysis No problem! You can run Feature Impact later if needed. Proceeding to handover... **All Workshops Complete!** 🎉

Now let me prepare the handover to Phase 4: UX Design...

Load and execute: handover/instructions.md