Every company, especially startups, needs to have a clear product vision and strategy in order to guide their efforts and focus their team. Roman Pichler has created a product vision board to help new startups identify their product vision, even if they don't have a lot of data on their customers. The board is designed to be concise and avoid unnecessary details, such as user stories, personas, and design sketches, in order to help startups stay focused on their overall goals.

As a fast-paced startup, Harmonic relies on Notion to keep track of projects and deadlines. As part of our webinar series, we invited Notion expert Marie Poulin to conduct a live review of Harmonic's project database and make improvements in real-time. You can use the template they developed to stay organized and on top of project work across your team.

Every engineering team should have an engineering wiki in order to ship products quickly and with high quality. This template can serve as a single source of truth, helping to maintain consistency, promote good programming habits, and keep everyone on the same page.

This template allows you to store your design proposals and share them with your teammates for feedback. The slash command /figma allows you to easily embed your designs into any Notion page. Use this template to streamline the design proposal process and make it easy to get feedback from your team.

GRID is a platform that makes it easy to understand and use spreadsheet data, allowing teams to work more efficiently and achieve more than they thought possible. To help startups forecast, budget, strategize, and seek funding, GRID has developed a startup runway calculator. This tool lets users ditch static spreadsheets in favor of linking directly to their GRID data models, providing a more dynamic and flexible way to manage financial data.

The R.A.I.D. register is a tool that helps you keep track of the tasks and information you need to deliver your software, product, or service to your customers. This register is designed to help you manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies, so you can stay on top of your project governance and ensure that you deliver on time and on budget. The open and accessible commenting system allows your team to communicate and collaborate asynchronously, so you can work more effectively.

A go-to-market (GTM) plan is a crucial tool for aligning cross-functional teams around the many elements of bringing a product to users. With this plan in place, you and your team can plan and execute every part of your product launch in a single, centralized location. This ensures that everyone is working together towards the same goals and can help your product launch be as successful as possible.

Allowing other teams to request mass email campaigns can improve cross-functional collaboration and enhance your marketing strategy. The Notion team uses a template to standardize email requests and collaborate asynchronously. The template includes pre-built database views, which allow users to see the same data in different ways. By using this template, teams can encourage others to send email campaigns and keep track of relevant context.

To effectively integrate contractors into your team, provide them with the same resources and information as you would for a new internal team member. This may include access to brand guidelines, product training, details about internal processes, and context about the specific projects they will be working on. Using a central location, such as a template or wiki, can help ensure that contractors have all the necessary information and can work transparently with your team. This will enable both sides to collaborate effectively and produce their best work.

This template uses a 3-stage process to help teams and companies easily ideate, screen, and research ideas based on customer, user, and employee feedback. It is designed to simplify the process of gathering and utilizing feedback to generate new ideas.