Feature requirement template
Capture the most important details for any product feature
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About the feature requirement template
Features are the building blocks of your product. As you iterate and improve upon your offering, much of your focus will be on defining and delivering feature-level work. This template provides structure and guidance for documenting the details of upcoming product features. Capture everything from the user perspective to technical items for the team to address.
Included in the feature requirement template
This feature requirement template comes with helpful built-in capabilities, including:
Structure to help you capture and define key feature details
Quick access to best practices
A rich-text editor to format content clearly
A built-in AI assistant to help as you research, write, and revise
Inline comments to gather feedback, questions, and ideas from teammates
How to use the feature requirement template
Templatizing your feature definition process saves time and gives the team the right level of detail needed to move work forward. Use this template to consistently communicate key requirement details to developers and the broader team — including user challenges, value score, impacted functionality, and open questions.
Documenting feature requirements in a structured format also helps cross-functional teams (such as product marketing, customer success, and sales) as they prepare to support the launch of new functionality.
Best practices
Streamline how you define and describe features.
Start with the basics: Fill in foundational information in the template, such as feature name, owner, team, and a high-level description of the functionality.
Align with strategy: Tie every feature to the product goal and initiative (or theme of work) it supports, and estimate the value of the feature to guide prioritization.
Check your assumptions: As you draft, be mindful of your product's end user. Which problems keep them up at night? What is blocking them from being successful? How will your product help them excel at what they do and be happy doing it?
Get to work: This template is a good start for small teams. Update it throughout the product development process. If you find that you outgrow it, consider defining requirements and tracking product work in Aha! Roadmaps.
