A launch brief is not the same as a positioning brief. The positioning brief describes the company's enduring claim; the launch brief describes how a specific launch reinforces or extends that claim. The seven fields below are what a launch brief needs to produce alignment in the six weeks before ship date, and nothing more. Most launch briefs fail because they try to be compressed positioning briefs — the team ships 15-page documents nobody reads, instead of one-page documents everybody references.
The seven fields
The launch brief template, in order
What to leave out
Seven fields, one page. Written by the PMM, reviewed by the CMO and head of sales, finalized before the launch sprint begins. The brief that follows this structure produces sales and marketing alignment in the six weeks before ship. The brief that drifts into being a mini-positioning-brief produces confusion in the six weeks that precede the launch no team remembers fondly.
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