socratic-discovery

name	socratic-discovery
description	Use progressively revealing questions to build consensus and illustrate why changes are needed. Use when stakeholders are skeptical, requirements seem obvious to you but not others, or you need to validate assumptions before committing to solutions.

Socratic Requirements Discovery

Use progressively revealing questions to build consensus and illustrate why changes are needed, rather than stating requirements directly.

7-step progression: Empathy (understand current state), Tension (reveal gaps), Exposure (show environment differences), Challenge (question complexity), Comparison (show better ways), Evaluation (open to change), Value (articulate vision).

Key principles: Questions not answers, concrete over abstract, build from simple to complex, use real scenarios, allow discovery. Success: stakeholders say "we need to fix this" before you propose a solution.