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Startups & new ventures in hardware and physical technology
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8 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
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.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
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.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Pilot build readiness brief
Before a prototype or pilot build, the build lead gets one brief: part shortages, revision conflicts and open actions set against the team’s own build checklist, with allocated parts kept apart from received ones. People confirm; nothing is released.
- Starts it
- Build lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 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
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