Workflows Directory
Product management for startups & new ventures
Results
11 workflow templates
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.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Business model assumptions review
Before you commit money to a new or revised business model, see it block by block with every claim marked evidenced or assumed, the riskiest assumptions ranked, and the cheapest test for each. You choose what to test; no projection or valuation is made.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Product pricing options
A product owner weighing how to price or package a product gets one options brief: what each customer group uses, the willingness-to-pay evidence held with stated kept apart from observed, what each option would bill every account, the uncertainties and the tests. It recommends no price.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Smallest useful release scope
A product owner or founder with more features than capacity gets one page: what is in the first release and what is deferred, all tied to one user outcome, with the reason for each cut. The owner decides the scope; no effort is estimated beyond what is supplied.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Technical demo plan
Before a technical discovery or demo meeting, the account executive and solutions engineer get an attendee brief, a demo sequence built around the buyer's stated workflow from approved scenarios, and open questions. Requests nobody has verified stay questions.
- Starts it
- Account executive
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Tracking event plan
Before analytics goes onto a website or app, the founder or product owner gets one plan: the events and properties worth collecting, when each fires, where it goes, what it is called and who owns it, each tied to a question the business needs answered. The owner approves what is collected.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Usability test session plan
Before a prototype or a confusing flow goes in front of users, the research lead and product owner hold one plan: who to recruit, the tasks in plain words, the neutral prompts, a blank note sheet and how success is counted. Recording and data handling are listed as decisions.
- Starts it
- Product owner
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
User research plan
When a design decision needs user evidence, the research lead gets one study plan: what the team needs to know, what evidence already exists, method options with their hours, participant criteria, permissions needed, how answers will be read and what the study cannot establish.
- Starts it
- Research lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 9 outputs