To ensure an org-wide affinity around a product, it is critical to nail your Product Requirements Document (PRD).
To keep the product team, PMMs, dev team, and all other stakeholders aligned, as well as your end-users, compiling a PRD as a single source of truth eliminates any time-wasting answering questions by neatly displaying the answers to all the most pressing questions pre-product launch.
The PRD is different from the Marketing Requirements Document or a Business Requirements Document in that it's more detailed in terms of functionality, technical requirements, and use cases, rather than focusing on customer demand and market opportunity.
It is also separate from a Product Specification Document as once again rather than just outlining features, whilst a description is still included, the feature will be explained in more technical terms.
We’ve put together a template of the essential boxes to be ticked when building and releasing your product and/or features.