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Ten things before launch
A launch date that is closer than the checklist is complete.
We ship this on the date below. Give me the ten things that must be true beforehand, split into blocking and nice to have. Include the unglamorous ones: support, docs, rollback, who is awake if it breaks at midnight. Then tell me which one we are most likely to forget. Feature: Date:
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- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Launch and comms. Getting a release out and told: launch plans, go / no-go, release notes, deprecations, post-launch retros.
Related prompts
Build a launch planTwo weeks before a release, to find what nobody has picked up yet.Run a go / no-go checklistThe day before launch, when everyone assumes someone else checked.Announce that a feature is going awayRemoving something people use, and the announcement has to do the hard part.Write release notes people will actually readShipping a version and the changelog currently says "various improvements".Run a post-launch retrospectiveA week after shipping, while the details are still recoverable.One-line release noteA change that needs describing to users, not engineers.
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