by M-Tracker | Oct 22, 2026 | Briefs and expectations
Briefs and expectations · 3 min readAcceptance criteria are yes-or-no checks that say when a piece of work is finished. They work for reports, emails, designs and events, not just software. Write three to five per task. Each one should be something two...
by M-Tracker | Oct 22, 2026 | Briefs and expectations
Briefs and expectations · 3 min readWhen a request is vague, do not guess and do not ask "what do you mean?" Write back what you think they want, in five short lines, and ask them to confirm or fix it. It takes two minutes, it shows you are thinking, and...
by M-Tracker | Oct 22, 2026 | Briefs and expectations
Briefs and expectations · 3 min readA task title names the topic: "Pricing page." A task brief says what finished looks like: the result, who it is for, what it must include, what to avoid, and when. Titles are fine for your own to-do list. When someone...
by M-Tracker | Oct 22, 2026 | Briefs and expectations
Briefs and expectations · 3 min readA useful brief answers five questions: what result, for whom, what it must include, what it must not do, and when. You can type those as five lines, or say them out loud in under a minute. Either way, two minutes of...
by M-Tracker | Oct 21, 2026 | Briefs and expectations
Briefs and expectations · 4 min readBelow are five requests the way they are usually sent, what went wrong, and the rewrite that fixed it. Every rewrite uses the same five parts: result, who it is for, must include, must not, due and approver.The same...
by M-Tracker | Oct 21, 2026 | Briefs and expectations
Briefs and expectations · 4 min readPeople deliver the wrong thing because the request was clear in your head and fuzzy on the page. They filled the gaps with their best guess. Their guess was reasonable. It was still not what you meant. The fix is a...
