Documentation templates for Product team

The goal of having a process is to reduce mental fatigue and stresses that are caused by a lack of clarity. Once the team is freed from the constant nagging need to keep a constant working rhythm, more team resources can be dedicated to doing the right thing. Here’s a list of templates and their contents that I use with all my product teams.

• Overall business
  • Mission and Goal
  • Customer Personals
  • North Star Metric (How to define success)
  • Glossary
• Manual (How-tos)
  • Staff-use
  • Customer-use
• Building product
  • Data
    • Performance, data, and insights
    • Tracking
      • Properties and Definitions
      • Events and Triggers
  • Technical
    • Sitemap
    • Development guideline
    • UAT Record
  • Product
    • Research and Experiments
    • Opportunities
    • Roadmap
    • Release Notes
• Team Communication
  • Meeting Notes
  • Documents