59Ideas & planning

Stakeholder

Anyone with an interest in a project or product: users, customers, teammates, management.

For example

Before starting we need to understand what each stakeholder wants.

Resources

Copy prompt

List the stakeholders for this project and what each one cares about.

Related terms

What you want to build, and which problem it solves.

For example

An app that helps people discover the story behind English words.

Minimum viable product

Build the smallest version that actually works, to test the idea.

For example

Version one only does: a few words plus their etymology.

Product requirements document

Write down what the product does, who it is for and why, as a whole.

For example

This is the complete product spec sheet.