Appendix A. Appendix: Launch Plan Template
This is a generic template for a launch plan. Google does not have a single unified template, and often different business units will have their own customized versions for their product lines. Keeping that in mind, feel free to customize this template to your own business by adding or removing sections, processes, approvers, links to artifacts, and so forth.
Text formatted [in italics] is the text that the launch plan owner is expected to delete or replace with launch-specific text.
Status
[Adjust this list as needed and remove stakeholders that are not relevant.]
| Stakeholder role | Signoff | |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing | ||
| Security | ||
| Site Reliability Engineering | ||
| Product Manager | ||
| Technical Program Manager |
Summary
[Write a few sentences about what, why, and when you are launching. Describe the scope of the launch—include the list of changes, and what is not in scope.]
Testing Guidelines
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Environment: [QA, staging, etc.]
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Whitelisting: [Instructions on how to whitelist a customer to access new functionality.]
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What to test: [Define a scope for what people should be testing and what to look for.]
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Other information:
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One-time manual and/or exploratory tests (new features): [Link to QA test request]
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Number of manual regression ...
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