1️⃣ Change author and title
2️⃣ Complete the first draft and notify reviewers
Author marks this ☑ once all sections are finished, and sign-offs are completed Overview
📕 Key Resources
Slack Channel with all stakeholders above: #project-<projectname> 👀 Reviewers
Add/remove reviewers as needed, they will get a notification. Reviewers change their status themselves once they sign-off the PRD.
🗓 Key Milestones
Identify relevant milestones, including finishing tech specs and PRDs. Feel free to add/remove rows.
Problem Alignment
Mark section as completed 📐The Problem
Describe the problem or opportunity. Why is it important to our users and our business? What insights are you operating on? And if relevant, what problems are you not intending to solve?
TODO text / video
🛤 Goals & Success
What does success look like? What metrics are you intending to move? Be specific, and share the OKR that you touch if any.
TODO
🌎 Competitive & Customer Research
Describe briefly how our competitors are solving this problem. This should also include links or excerpts from Customer interviews.
TODO
Solution Alignment
Mark section as completed when stakeholders review has been finished 💡 High-level Approach
Describe briefly (1-2 paragraphs max) the approach you’re taking to solve this problem. This should be enough for the reader to imagine possible solution directions and get a very rough sense of the scope of this project.
TODO text / video
🖼️ Solution Definition and User Stories
Go deep in the solution and milestones and an organized list of user stories, ordered by priority.
TODO
👩🎨 Key Design Flows
Show/Link some mocks/embeds of the experience. Link to any other documentation as necessary. In general, it’s helpful to organize these around certain user journeys / use cases.
TODO
Launch Readiness
Mark section as completed when all questions / decisions has been addressed 🚀 Launch Checklist
Make sure you answer all of the questions below and involve necessary stakeholders.
Instructions if "Yes” (or unsure)
❓Open Questions & Key Decisions
Keep track of open issues / key decisions. Sometimes, certain decisions are made that might feel controversial; document these in text or video so people know that the discussions happened and there’s awareness of the tradeoffs.
🧑🦯 Pre-Mortem
List the things that could go wrong (elephant in the room), and any questions that need to be answered from GTM, Eng, Data, Design or Legal before getting deep in the solution.