<aside> ✏️ Fill out this template before your next design kickoff meeting to help your team align and communicate!

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Table of Contents

Project Background

Why are we here?

Clearly explain to everyone why they’re here ("I've done my best to gather the right team members to begin discussing our plan for the _____ project.")

• Today we'll discuss:

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Today's goal

State the goal of the meeting (“With the time we have today, I'd like to discuss the details and scope of the _____ project and how we'll be working together.")

• The goal of this meeting is to _______.

Priority

Explain the urgency or priority of the project ("This is a great time to be working on this because we recently noticed an increase in customer inquiries about this.") and share data if you have it.

• This is a great time to be working on this because ______.
• For more data about why we're working on this, take a look at ______.

Project Details

Roles and responsibilities

Clearly outline roles and responsibilities, or ask for them if they're not known. ("I'll be leading research and design starting next week, and I'll work closely with our Product Manager. Do we know who will be leading the implementation of this project? Who can help me find out?")