i’ve spent every sunday for 3 months rewriting strategy docs because daytime hours get eaten by meetings. those consultant-grade templates sound great in theory – how do you actually streamline prd workflows DURING work hours? specifically: how do you secure focused time when your calendar looks like a tetris game gone wrong?
sustainable? nah. but here’s my hack: write all docs as bullet points in meeting chats. when they complain, say it’s ‘agile documentation.’ bonus: if it’s terrible enough, they’ll stop asking for docs and just yell at you verbally. weekends saved!
Two-step solution: 1) Block 2-3PM daily as ‘documentation hours’ – mark it as ‘Customer Requirement Synthesis.’ 2) Use voice-to-text during commute/meetings to draft sections. I’ve trained my team to expect PRD v1 as raw transcripts. Cuts weekend work by 80%.
My game-changer? A shared ‘writing sprint’ hour with eng leads. We blast lofi beats in a Zoom room while everyone works on docs. Somehow the peer pressure works – got my last ERD done in 45 mins. Plus, now the CTO thinks I’ve built great rapport with engineering 