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name: outcome-definition
description: "Shifts thinking from feature delivery to measurable user or business outcomes. Use before building a feature, during roadmap planning, or while defining success metrics to ensure work ties to real results."
---

# Outcome Definition Framework

## Purpose
Shift thinking from feature delivery to measurable user or business outcomes.

## When to Use
- Before building a feature
- During roadmap planning
- While defining success metrics

## Steps
1. Define the desired user behavior change.
2. Select a measurable success metric.
3. Establish the current baseline.
4. Set a realistic target improvement.
5. Define the evaluation timeframe.

## Output

### Desired Outcome
### Success Metric
### Baseline
### Target
### Timeframe
### How Success Will Be Measured

## References
See [worked example](references/example.md) for a complete scenario.