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Acceptance criteria sheet
Hand a developer or agency a story with its definition of done written down: testable expected behaviours, error cases and edge cases, each traced to a rule or design state, with the unclear terms and open questions listed for the product owner.
Assumption map
For a product owner whose plan rests on beliefs nobody has tested: each belief is written down, set against the evidence you hold, ranked by what it would do to the plan, and given a cheap test to choose from. You decide what to test; no evidence is invented.
Channel partner fit review
When a referral, reseller or alliance partner approaches, the founder or head of partnerships gets one review: evidence the partner brings customers of its own, the type that evidence supports, a ninety-day plan with signs to go on or stop, and the commission range that still beats selling direct. A person decides.
Customer feedback themes
Each month your support lead sees what customers keep telling you: tickets, disputes, reviews and survey comments grouped into themes with counts and quotations, the three issues most worth fixing with a proposed fix and owner, and a note for customers once a fix ships. A person decides every fix.
Emergency drill brief
Before a fire, evacuation or other drill, the site or office manager gets one brief: the scenario the responsible person has approved, who does what, what each observer records, and the questions for the debrief. It writes no emergency plan.
Hiring pipeline status report
Each week your people lead or founder sees every open role on one page: applications at each stage, days open against the target, roles running late, pass-through between stages, which sources lead to interviews, and every blocker with its owner. It counts; it never assesses a candidate.
Interview plan and scorecard
Before the first interview, the hiring manager and every interviewer share one plan: the criteria the role needs, the same questions in the same order for every candidate, and a blank scorecard each person fills in alone. It rates no one. People make every decision about a candidate.
Interview process review after a hiring round
After a hiring round closes, the recruiting lead gets a review of the interview process: questions that gave no usable evidence, competencies nobody covered, inconsistent rubric use, and revisions to approve before the next search. It reviews the process only; no candidate is assessed.
Investor update
Each month or quarter, the founder gets a drafted update for investors: the headline, key figures against plan and last period, cash and runway, wins, problems told plainly with what is being done, and specific asks. Every figure comes from the company's own reports. The founder approves and sends it.
Job description
A hiring manager’s rough notes become a job description the right people want to answer: why the role exists, the work itself, and only the must-haves that are real. Your approved pay and employer wording go in untouched, and nothing is posted until the hiring manager and the people lead approve it.
Job posting and sourcing plan
For one approved role, the hiring manager gets a plan for where to post and where to look: every channel on the company's own list ordered by the signal it should give for that kind of role, a week-by-week schedule inside the budget, and what to count on each channel. Nothing is posted or paid until a person approves.
Kit component availability check
The stock or online-store lead gets every kit beside the quantity actually sellable, the component that limits it, the stock records that disagree and the listings that promise more than can be built. Nothing is changed until a person decides.
Preventive maintenance plan
For one site, the facilities or operations manager gets every piece of equipment ranked by failure cost, an approach for each (run to failure, scheduled or condition-based), a dated calendar of tasks from the maker's guidance and the failure history, the spare parts to hold and the downtime measures to track.
Price change review
Before prices change, the owner or finance lead gets one review: the margin on each product or service from the sales and cost exports, how costs have moved, what each proposed price does to sales and gross profit across a stated range of customer responses, and dated competitor prices. It recommends no price.
Quality management review pack
Before the periodic quality review, the quality lead gets one brief for senior leaders: where each measure stands, complaints and defects, audit findings, action status, and the decisions still open. The leaders decide; the brief claims no compliance with any standard.
Reference check question plan
After the interviews, the recruiter gets short reference calls aimed only at what the panel still could not establish, put to the referees the candidate named and agreed to, with a note sheet for each call that keeps the referee's own words. It gives no view on the candidate.
Release notes draft
The product owner gets draft release notes for one shipped release, in words users recognize: what is new, changed, removed and fixed, the steps users must take, and the known limitations. Only what was supplied is described. The owner checks and publishes.
Roadmap tradeoff review
When a new priority arrives, the product owner sees what the roadmap would have to give up to hold it: the capacity gap by team, the work that could move, the commitments and dependencies that move with it, and the questions still open. The owner decides.
Sales call scorecard
After a sales call, your sales lead sees how it went against your team's own criteria, each point backed by the words actually said, where the call left the deal, and one focus for the next call. It reviews a call, never a person, and gives no score for anyone's file.
Site safety induction pack
For one named site, the site, facilities or people lead gets an induction built from that site's own emergency arrangements, rules and hazards, with a short check of understanding, a sign-off record for each person and refresher dates by role. A competent person approves it and delivers it.
Supplier issue notice
When a supplier bills for more than was ordered or received, or falls short of an agreed delivery or quality target, the buyer gets a formal notice ready for approval: each problem set against the record, the evidence listed, what the supplier must do and the date to reply by. A person approves and sends it.
Supplier quality response check
A quality or purchasing person who has raised a defect with a supplier gets the supplier's reply set against the finding: what is answered, what is not, the evidence still to ask for, the actions proposed and what has yet to be verified. The person decides whether the answer is accepted.
Supplier spend analysis
From one accounts-payable export, the finance or operations lead sees where the money goes: spend cleaned and grouped by category and supplier, the few suppliers that take most of it, the tail, needs bought from several suppliers and consolidation opportunities, each with its figures. A person decides what to act on.
Support escalation brief
When a support case must move to a specialist or manager, the support lead gets one brief: the customer's impact, a dated timeline from the ticket history, the evidence, the fixes tried, the workaround in place and the decision needed. Nothing goes to the customer.