Idea
Concise explanation of the idea (ideally include a rough sketch)
Alignment
How does this initiative tie to broader team or company goals (also see this related )? Problem
What's the underlying problem we've observed? Key examples to demonstrate?
How will this create value for our customers?
User-based job or tasks
What should customer be able to do when this initiative is 'done?'
What job do we think we're solving?
Measurement
Can we validate or benchmark early in the process?
How are you going to test that we've enabled the user to do X?
Non-goals
What are the related goals we could do but are not going to?
Time & Budget
How long will this take? What resources will this take?
Braintrust
Who are the people in the company that you should look to for guidance or feedback?
How will you engage them in what you're building?
Pro Tricks
Cover photo: scroll up and hover over the top of the doc to click Comments: Select some text and click in the toolbar to add a comment Pulse check: Get a quick pulse check on any writeup or meeting by typing /sentiment and adding a "Team Sentiment Tracker" Topic voting: presenting this summary in a meeting? Type /topic voting to ask attendees to submit and vote on topics to discuss Done reading: type /read to insert an "I've read it" button. 🐇 Go down the rabbit hole
New columns: Try adding a "Due date" to the Action Items table My action items: copy and paste the Action Items table to get a new of that table, then the view to just the action items assigned to you
Keyboard shortcuts
Try hitting space after these characters to see some magic
[ ] → checkbox (try below, and remember to put a space between the brackets)
ctrl + / (Mac) or ctrl +shift + / (windows) → see all shortcuts
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