Briefle words · Product & specs
Open questions
The unresolved decisions in a plan or spec that need an answer before building, ideally with who will answer and by when.
Say it to an AI
Add an Open questions table to the free-cancellation spec: each question gets a named owner and a needed-by date, and mark which ones are blockers for engineering. Don't leave any question unassigned.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Cancellation spec: open questions”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →A travel booking app's PM circulates a feature spec for free cancellation before engineering starts.
Why: Both versions have the same four; the difference is what's attached to them.
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