Intellectual Frontiers

Put a Product Change on One Page With Its Evidence

The Product Evidence Brief

Use this when anyone proposes a product change; the brief travels with the proposal and fits on one page. Worked in “Label the Evidence Before You Argue About It.”

The Product Evidence Brief.

Field Entry

The claim about users

Which user role

User Evidence Ladder level, with the evidence itself

UAT Distance of any test

What evidence is missing

What result would change our mind

The smallest test that would raise the evidence one level

The decision requested

A brief that can’t name a user role or a result that would change anyone’s mind is an opinion on a form. Send it back before the meeting, not during it.