Module 5 of 5Lesson 3 of 3~14 min
Hand off to the development team
All the discovery work loses its value if it does not reach the people who will build it clearly. This lesson helps you write a short, complete spec, then gather all your deliverables into an experience file ready to hand over to the development team.
Lesson objective
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to write a one-page spec (intent, constraints, flow, states, acceptance criteria) and assemble your experience dossier to hand it to the development team.
Topics covered
- developer handoff
- product spec
- acceptance criteria
- experience file
- PM and developer collaboration
In the glossary
Where it fits
Prioritize, plan, hand off
In what order to ship, how to communicate it, and how to hand off without losing anything?
Lessons in this module
- Prioritize the backlog with RICE and MoSCoW
- Build an outcome-based roadmap
- Hand off to the development team (this lesson)
What you will learn in the course
This lesson is part of the course Design and validate a product experience with AI
- Write a user-centered, testable problem statement backed by discovery evidence.
- Prepare, run and synthesize unbiased discovery interviews, using AI for preparation and synthesis without delegating judgment to it.
- Build a persona and job stories grounded in real quotes, then choose a target opportunity in an opportunity solution tree.
- Map a flow with its edge cases and turn it into low-fidelity wireframes that cover every screen state.
- Choose a prototype's fidelity and tool (including an AI prototyping tool), run a usability test and prioritize the problems observed.
- Prioritize a backlog with an explicit method (RICE, MoSCoW, value / effort), making the score's assumptions visible, and justify the trade-off.
- Build an outcome-based roadmap with success criteria, and write a handoff spec with acceptance criteria.
Related courses
- Write specs that developers and AI agents understandAdvanced · ~2 hr 30 min
- Instrument a product and use data to make decisionsAdvanced · ~3 hr 30 min
- Prioritize and build an outcome-based roadmapAdvanced · ~2 hr 30 min