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Sanity Check Your Plans Template
Catch misalignment early. Use this fast checklist to validate your discovery activities, confirm you’re focusing on real user outcomes, and avoid wasted cycles.
Why Sanity Checking Your Discovery Plans Matters
Even great discovery work can go off the rails without a quick alignment check.
Matt LeMay’s Sanity Check Your Plans Template gives you a fast way to pressure-test your discovery process before investing serious time and resources.
This template helps you double-check:
- Are we aligned on impact?
- Are we asking the right users?
- Are we focusing on real behaviors, not opinions?
One quick check saves weeks of wasted effort — and keeps you laser-focused on building things that actually matter.
How to Make the Most Out of the Sanity Check Your Plans Template
This no-fluff checklist helps you catch fuzzy goals, unclear user targets, and assumption overload — before they spiral into costly mistakes. Matt LeMay’s Sanity Check Template brings clarity to your discovery process by forcing alignment on what really matters.
It’s designed for fast-moving product teams who want to build with purpose, not guesswork. Run it regularly to refocus your team, spot blind spots early, and keep discovery efforts tightly aligned with real outcomes — not just good intentions.
Exclusive advice from Matt for product teams:
1. Run it before you start (and mid-process if needed)
Use the checklist before major discovery milestones — kickoff, mid-sprint, before committing resources.
2. Challenge assumptions out loud
Make gaps visible. Better to catch misalignments early than after a failed sprint.
3. Adjust fast and move on
The point isn’t perfection — it’s course-correcting before wasted work piles up.
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