About

Specworks is a small, non-commercial collection of notes on product work: how teams find out what is worth building, and how they turn that into something people use.

The notes follow the product cycle in order, from framing an outcome and talking to customers through to writing specs, slicing work and measuring what happened after release. They are written for people who do this work day to day — product managers, designers, engineers, analysts — and for anyone who has wondered why a carefully built feature changed nothing.

Why

Much of what is written about product management is either very abstract or attached to a particular framework, course or tool. These notes try to stay practical: what each step is for, how to do it reasonably well, and what usually goes wrong. Where an idea clearly comes from someone else’s work, the note says so.

How it’s made

The site is a handful of static pages and one stylesheet. There is no tracking, no comments section and no newsletter, though there is an RSS feed for anyone who still uses one. New notes appear occasionally, when there is something worth saying.

Reusing the material

You are welcome to quote the notes or adapt the spec outline for your own team. A link back is appreciated but not required.