Forbes
Forbes

PRD: [Project Name]

Unlock your product's full potential with this PRD template used by the engineering and product teams at Forbes to scope out projects and deliver new and innovative features. By addressing key problems and seizing opportunities, the template facilitates seamless collaboration and efficient communication. It emphasizes the importance of timely action to avoid setbacks and missed opportunities. With clear objectives and measurable goals, the template ensures that product development aligns with business objectives. With Forbes's PRD template, teams can continuously refine and improve their product plans, streamlining workflows, enhancing collaboration, and delivering a successful product.

PRD: [Project Name]

Background

This section provides the background of the project, including what the key problem/opportunity exists and why it's important.

What is the problem/opportunity?

Who does this affect?

  1. Target Users
  2. Usage: Frequency/Volume
  3. Stakeholders

Why should we address this now?

  1. What are the implications if not addressed now?
  2. Alternatives/Workarounds

What supporting data exist?

  1. Usage: Frequency/Volume
  2. Related Metrics
  3. User Feedback
  4. Market/Competitive Analysis
  5. Examples+Testimonials

What assumptions and risks exist?

Success Metrics

  1. What metrics will directly measure success?
  2. What contextual metrics should we monitor?

Solution

Milestone 1

Milestone 2

  1. Are there any constraints of the solution?
  2. What is the expected scale of use?
  3. Are users on a specific OS or device?
  4. Are there dependencies on other projects?
  5. Is there a timeline that has business implications?

Risks + Edge Cases

  1. How likely are we to solve the key problems?
  2. Do we risk introducing new issues or challenges?
  3. Will it be easy enough to use for target users?
  4. How likely are we to gain adoption?
  5. Is a viable solution feasible given resources + timeline?

Related Documents

Designs

Technical

Release Planning

Integration Branches

  1. Simple-Site: integration/xxxx
  2. Templator, Bertie Inflators:integration/xxxx
  3. Bertie: integration/xxxx

Builds & PRs:

  1. Front End
  2. Devbox:
  3. PR:
  4. Sample article:
  5. Back End
  6. Devbox:
  7. PR:
  8. Sample article:
  9. API:
  10. Devbox:
  11. PR:

Unlock your product's full potential with this PRD template used by the engineering and product teams at Forbes to scope out projects and deliver new and innovative features. By addressing key problems and seizing opportunities, the template facilitates seamless collaboration and efficient communication. It emphasizes the importance of timely action to avoid setbacks and missed opportunities. With clear objectives and measurable goals, the template ensures that product development aligns with business objectives. With Forbes's PRD template, teams can continuously refine and improve their product plans, streamlining workflows, enhancing collaboration, and delivering a successful product.

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