Guide
How to write a PRD from a workshop
To turn workshop output into a PRD, write down decisions, not discussion. Collect what the team confirmed: the problem, the target user, the goal, the chosen solution and what was left out. Put them in a short document with the prototype attached, list open questions, and have the person who made the decisions sign off within a day. AppSprint drafts a Markdown build brief (PRD) from the confirmed decisions and the final prototype.
Why workshop output rarely becomes a PRD
A product requirements document (PRD) tells builders what to build, for whom, why, and what is out of scope. A workshop or design sprint produces the raw material: a framed problem, a chosen direction and often a prototype. But a wall of notes records everything that was said, and a PRD should record only what was decided.
So the work is mostly selection. If the workshop had a Decider, as the design sprint in the book Sprint does, the selection has been made. If not, the PRD is where you find out that nothing was decided.
Write it step by step
Capture decisions before people leave (10 minutes)
List each decision in one sentence and have the Decider confirm it aloud.
Separate decisions from ideas (20 minutes)
Sort the material into decided, rejected and undecided. The first becomes requirements, the second non-goals, the third open questions.
Fill in a short outline (45 to 60 minutes)
Use the outline below and keep it to a few pages. Link the prototype and say what in it is a placeholder.
Describe behaviour, not screens (30 minutes)
For each key flow, write what the user is trying to do, the steps, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Get sign-off within a day
Send the draft to the Decider and participants with one question: does this match what we decided?
A PRD outline that fits workshop output
- Problem: who has it, what happens today and why it matters now
- Target user and key moment: the customer and situation the team chose
- Goal and measures of success: what should change, and how you will know
- Chosen solution: a summary, the prototype link and why it won
- Key flows and requirements: what the user can do, step by step
- Non-goals: ideas considered and left out, so they do not creep back
- Risks and open questions: what is still unknown, and what user testing should answer
Common mistakes
- Transcribing every note. Length hides the decisions.
- Treating the prototype as the specification. It shows one happy path and says nothing about errors, data or edge cases.
- Presenting untested assumptions as requirements. Mark them as assumptions.
When the workshop was remote
Remote workshops leave boards, chat logs and transcripts, and it is tempting to summarise a transcript with AI. A transcript captures talk, including rejected ideas, so start from the confirmed decisions and use the transcript only to check details.
Doing this in AppSprint
In AppSprint the decision-maker confirms each choice during the session. From those the host can generate a build brief, AppSprint's name for the PRD. AI writes it from the confirmed decisions and the final prototype. The call transcript and the private sketching steps are excluded. In the Full Product Sprint and Focused Product Sprint, the Choose Your Next Step step offers the PRD and handoff package, or user testing first.
The PRD is Markdown: you can copy it or save it as a file, and there is no PDF or Word version. The handoff package is a ZIP with a README, the AI build prompt, the sprint decisions, the prototype as a single HTML file, the refinement history and screenshots. It covers the first winning prototype only and is meant for a developer or an AI development tool. A session summary link shows the decisions, prototypes and build brief to people outside the room.
Only the host can generate the PRD, and AppSprint has no integrations with issue trackers or document tools, so you move the Markdown yourself. Treat it as a draft and add edge cases and technical constraints.