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Product Readiness & Final Decision Worksheet

Use when you need to answer: "Is there sufficient evidence and clarity to continue investing?"

Check readiness honestly before committing to a major new stage of investment.

Core Question

  1. Is there sufficient evidence and clarity to continue investing?

What to Document

  1. Customer clarity, problem validation, outcome measurability

  2. Assumption evidence, output focus, metrics, guardrails, risks, ownership

  3. Readiness decision: Ready, Ready with conditions, or Not ready

Common Mistake to Avoid

  1. Treating 'we shipped something' as equivalent to 'we are ready to scale it.'

Illustrative Example

  1. Ready with conditions: pilot results are strong, but the correction workflow needs one more iteration before wider rollout.

Output of this stage

The team can defend the readiness decision with evidence, not optimismAny conditions attached to 'ready with conditions' have owners and dates
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