| 1.1WHO — WHAT — WHY | FRAME AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | No solution language. WHO, WHAT and WHY describe the problem only. | Problem attack: is this a customer problem or an internal preference? Counterfactual: what happens if we do nothing for two quarters? | Confirm the problem is the customer's, not an internal preference. |
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| 1.2Product Vision | FRAME AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Name the customer outcome, not the feature set. | Measurement attack: could the vision be 'achieved' while the customer is worse off? | Vision names an outcome a customer would recognize. |
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| 1.3Business Case | FRAME AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | ROI and Year-1 arithmetic one line each; unsourced inputs = [GAP · BI Lead]. | Math attack: half the adoption, 1.5× the effort. Evidence attack: which input is asserted, not measured? | Every number traces to a source; the downside case is written down. |
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| 1.4Measurement Plan | FRAME AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | KPI = metric · baseline (or 'not instrumented') · target · source. | Measurement attack: does each KPI measure the stated problem, not a neighbouring one? Name the alternative cause. | BI Lead confirms baselines exist or are scheduled for instrumentation. |
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| 1.5Stakeholder Map (RAPID) | FRAME AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Fill only 'Name for This Project'; exception approver = Product Leader. | Organizational attack: who can veto late and has not been told? | Named individuals agree they hold the letter next to their name. |
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| 1.6DVQE — Desirability, Viability, Quality & Executability | FRAME AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Never leave a dimension unscored; a Weak verdict names the missing evidence as a [GAP]. | Evidence attack: grade each dimension measured / observed / self-reported / assumed / asserted. | Weak verdicts are named in the gate readout, not hidden. |
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| G1Gate · Problem Approved | Checklist Auditor → Readout WriterGate Reviewer Agent · Prompt 3 · Review | Audit the checklist, restate DVQE, answer the key question, run the killer questions, write the C2 readout. | C2 readout: VERDICT · FATAL · STRUCTURAL · FIXABLE · STRONGEST PART · WHAT WOULD CHANGE MY MIND · IF YOU PROCEED ANYWAY | Approvers agree (Product VP + Product AVP + Finance + Research Lead). Product Leader decides: Advance to DISCOVER · Conditional · Hold / kill. |
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| 2.1Press Release (PRFAQ) | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Body = problem, solution, one role-attributed internal quote. | Problem attack: changed customer outcome or a feature list? Which benefit claim has no evidence? | Read aloud to one person outside the team; add their questions to 2.3. |
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| 2.2Customer Quote & Getting Started | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Quote is marked '(composite)'; never a real person. | Evidence attack: is a single anecdote doing the work of a dataset? | Getting started reflects what a first-time customer would actually do. |
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| 2.3External FAQ | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | 5–7 real customer questions, plain language. | Second-order attack: where is the escalation path when the product fails the customer? | Questions came from customers or outside readers, not the team. |
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| 2.4Internal FAQ — Required Fields | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | AI Risk Tier = Project Identity value; one option per required field. | Organizational attack: is the AI Risk Tier understated? Who confirmed it? | Tech Lead confirms the AI Risk Tier; if Assistive or above, 3.5 is scheduled. |
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| 2.5Customer Archetype | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Archetypes, never a real person. | Evidence attack: interviews or a workshop? Would the competitor's PM say we misunderstood the customer? | Each archetype traces to at least five interviews, or the [GAP] is stated. |
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| 2.6Customer Journey | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | The table's row names, including KPIs to Measure, are the fields. | Second-order attack: which back-stage handoff breaks first? | Journey stages match how the customer experiences the product. |
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| 2.7DVQE — Desirability, Viability, Quality & Executability | DISCOVER AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Re-score on DISCOVER evidence; explain changes from 1.6. | Evidence attack: did any verdict change from 1.6 without new evidence? | Changes from 1.6 are explained with evidence. |
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| G2Gate · PRFAQ Approved | Checklist Auditor → Readout WriterGate Reviewer Agent · Prompt 3 · Review | Audit the checklist, restate DVQE, answer the key question, run the killer questions, write the C2 readout. | C2 readout: VERDICT · FATAL · STRUCTURAL · FIXABLE · STRONGEST PART · WHAT WOULD CHANGE MY MIND · IF YOU PROCEED ANYWAY | Approvers agree (Legal + Compliance + Research Lead). Product Leader decides: Advance to DESIGN · Conditional · Hold / kill. |
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| 3.1Insight Statements | DESIGN AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Format 'As [customer archetype], I learned that … because …' + Implication + Evidence tier. | Problem attack: which insight is a restated feature request? | No insight is a restated feature request. |
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| 3.2Solution Intent and Validation | DESIGN AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Opportunity = users, ROI range, fit; trade-off and riskiest-assumption test in Why It Works. | Counterfactual: name the cheaper non-product fix that captures most of the value. Does the first increment test the riskiest assumption? | Solution still answers the 1.1 problem; the riskiest assumption has a test. |
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| 3.3Capability Map | DESIGN AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Business capabilities, not features; A2 Reuse is the reuse field. | Problem attack: which capability is a screen in disguise? Which has no linked insight? | Every capability links to an insight; Tech Lead confirms feasibility in writing. |
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| 3.4Boundaries & Constraints | DESIGN AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Won't-have list is non-empty; each hard constraint has an owner. | Organizational attack: which hard constraint has no owner? Is the won't-have list empty? | Product Leader has reviewed the won't-have list. |
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| 3.5AI Evaluation (Conditional) | DESIGN AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 1 · Draft A | Project Identity tier governs; all four blocks if Assistive or higher, one line if None. | Second-order attack: what does the customer see on a confident wrong AI answer? | Compliance input is in the sources when the tier requires it. |
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| G3Gate · Build Ready | Checklist Auditor → Readout WriterGate Reviewer Agent · Prompt 3 · Review | Audit the checklist, restate DVQE, answer the key question, run the killer questions, write the C2 readout. | C2 readout: VERDICT · FATAL · STRUCTURAL · FIXABLE · STRONGEST PART · WHAT WOULD CHANGE MY MIND · IF YOU PROCEED ANYWAY | Approvers agree (Research Lead + Tech Lead + Agile Coach (+ Legal + Compliance when AI Risk Tier ≥ Assistive)). Product Leader decides: Advance to READY · Conditional · Hold / kill. |
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| 4.1Roadmap Definitions | READY AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Classify each CAP into Now, Next, Later or Parking lot with reason and target increment. | Organizational attack: what falls off the roadmap to make room, and is that written down? | What falls off the roadmap to make room is written down. |
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| 4.2Roadmap Template | READY AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Fill the roadmap table from 4.1; dependencies name the providing team. | Organizational attack: which dependency owner has not agreed in writing? | Dependency owners have agreed in writing. |
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| 4.3Backlog Hierarchy | READY AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Treat A1–A6 as the tables to fill, one edit per table. | Evidence attack: which Feature has no falsifiable benefit hypothesis? Which Story fails INVEST? | Every Feature has a falsifiable benefit hypothesis and acceptance criteria. |
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| 4.4Backlog Hygiene Standards | READY AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Record each failing Appendix A item: ID · standard failed · fix · owner. | Math attack: where is the missing 40% of effort (integration, compliance, testing, enablement, instrumentation)? | Zero open failures, or each has an owner and a date. |
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| 4.5Handoff to Jira / ADO | READY AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Leave the Ready to transfer verdict to the Reviewer (Prompt 3). | Measurement attack: which Story has no instrumentation event? Ready to transfer or Not ready, as a finding. | A Feature without an ID in A3 is not handed off. |
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| G4Gate · Product Approved | Checklist Auditor → Readout WriterGate Reviewer Agent · Prompt 3 · Review | Audit the checklist, restate DVQE, answer the key question, run the killer questions, write the C2 readout. | C2 readout: VERDICT · FATAL · STRUCTURAL · FIXABLE · STRONGEST PART · WHAT WOULD CHANGE MY MIND · IF YOU PROCEED ANYWAY | Approvers agree (Tech Lead + Agile Coach + Research Lead). Product Leader decides: Advance to LAUNCH · Conditional advance (rework backlog) · Hold for resizing. |
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| 5.0Legal & Compliance Review | LAUNCH AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Never write Cleared or Met without a source. | Evidence attack: 'Cleared' with no reviewer name and date is unsupported. | Every element Cleared or Cleared with conditions, with reviewer names and dates. |
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| 5.1Agile Delivery (2-week sprints) | LAUNCH AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Fill the sprint table from Appendix A; stages not reached = [GAP: stage not reached · owner]. | Math attack: is capacity tracked or asserted? | Capacity and scope are tracked, not asserted. |
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| 5.2Test Plan + Accessibility | LAUNCH AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Record coverage targets and evidence; accessibility evidence is attached, not promised. | Evidence attack: accessibility evidence attached or promised? | Accessibility evidence attached, not promised. |
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| 5.3Go / No-Go Criteria | LAUNCH AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Each criterion Met / Not met / Unknown with the artifact that proves it. | Measurement attack: can every Go criterion fail? Any Unknown is a No-Go. | Every Go criterion Met with an artifact; no Unknown. |
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| 5.4Deploy + Rollback | LAUNCH AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Rollback triggers are numbers tied to 1.4 KPIs or error budgets. | Second-order attack: a rollback trigger that never fired; triggers must be numbers tied to 1.4. | Rollback rehearsed with a date. |
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| 5.5Day-1 Enablement | LAUNCH AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Fill the enablement table; dashboard KPIs are the 1.4 KPIs. | Second-order attack: a support spike with no runbook; a dashboard nobody watched. | Day-1 dashboard live and showing baselines; first retro on the calendar. |
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| G5Gate · Ship Ready | Checklist Auditor → Readout Writer → Pre-mortem WriterGate Reviewer Agent · Prompt 3 · Review | Audit the checklist, restate DVQE, answer the key question, run the killer questions, write the C2 readout. | C2 readout: VERDICT · FATAL · STRUCTURAL · FIXABLE · STRONGEST PART · WHAT WOULD CHANGE MY MIND · IF YOU PROCEED ANYWAY | Approvers agree (Tech Lead + Agile Coach + Legal + Compliance). Product Leader decides: Advance to production · Conditional · Hold. |
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| 6.1KPI Tracking — activate the measurement plan | ASSESS AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Treat Current as holding 30/60/90-day actuals, variance and counter-metric. | Measurement attack: did the metric move while the customer outcome did not? Counter-metrics present? | 90-day actuals for every 1.4 KPI, including counter-metrics. |
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| 6.2Drift, Feedback Loop & Data Flywheel | ASSESS AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Treat Your Input and the harness signal table as the fields. | Second-order attack: model or behaviour drift with no owner and no cadence. | Drift signals have owners and a review cadence. |
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| 6.3Post-Launch Evaluation (90-Day) | ASSESS AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Compare actuals to 1.3 and 1.4 explicitly; verdict yes / no with evidence. | Math attack: Year-1 actuals against the 1.3 estimate, explicitly. | 6.3 compares Year-1 impact to the 1.3 estimate explicitly. |
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| 6.4Scale / Fix / Sunset | ASSESS AuthorAuthor Agent · Prompt 2 · Draft B | Write 'Recommendation: …' only; owner and date = [GAP · Product Leader decides]. | Kill memo and steelman: is Fix really Sunset with extra steps? Is Scale justified by the KPI or by sunk cost? | Product Leader names one decision, the driving number and the reversal condition. |
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| G6Gate · Scale or Sunset | Checklist Auditor → Readout Writer → Kill-memo WriterGate Reviewer Agent · Prompt 3 · Review | Audit the checklist, restate DVQE, answer the key question, run the killer questions, write the C2 readout. | C2 readout: VERDICT · FATAL · STRUCTURAL · FIXABLE · STRONGEST PART · WHAT WOULD CHANGE MY MIND · IF YOU PROCEED ANYWAY | Approvers agree (Product VP + Product AVP + BI Lead + Finance). Product Leader decides: Scale · Fix and re-measure · Sunset. |
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