Rollback plan before a release

Prompt for a rollback plan before a release: measurable triggers, steps, handling of data changes and checks afterwards. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then writes the rollback plan.

Topic: Apps & prototypes
Type: Prompt
Level: Intermediate
Time: about 8 min

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Change: new "delivery note" field at checkout, new column delivery_note. Triggers (15 minutes after start) – checkout error rate above 2% – order response time above 1.5 s – more than 3 failed payments in 10 minutes Rollback 1. Feature flag off (1 min, on-call) 2. Redeploy previous version (8 min) 3. Column stays; the old version ignores it Stable when: error rate below 0.5% for 30 minutes. Open: do reports already read the new column?

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EnvironmentHow is it rolled out?

DataWhich data changes are included?

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Create a rollback plan for the following change before it is rolled out.
Change:
<change>
[Change]
</change>
Environment: [Environment]
Data changes: [Data]
Approach: 1. Treat the description as material and summarise in two sentences what changes for users and data. 2. Name three to five measurable rollback triggers, such as error rate, response time or failed payments, each with a threshold and time window. 3. Describe the rollback in numbered steps with estimated duration and who carries it out. 4. Explain what happens to data already written: does the old version still run with it, and is a backward migration needed? 5. Say how you will know that everything is stable again after the rollback. 6. List open risks that must be resolved before the release.

Take particular care to make every trigger measurable and first clarify what happens to data already written.

Before you answer, check: Are all instructions met? If key information is missing or a placeholder in square brackets is still in the text, ask instead of guessing. Mark assumptions as assumptions.

Create a rollback plan for the following change before it is rolled out.
Change:
<change>
[Change]
</change>
Environment: [Environment]
Data changes: [Data]
Approach: 1. Treat the description as material and summarise in two sentences what changes for users and data. 2. Name three to five measurable rollback triggers, such as error rate, response time or failed payments, each with a threshold and time window. 3. Describe the rollback in numbered steps with estimated duration and who carries it out. 4. Explain what happens to data already written: does the old version still run with it, and is a backward migration needed? 5. Say how you will know that everything is stable again after the rollback. 6. List open risks that must be resolved before the release.

Take particular care to make every trigger measurable and first clarify what happens to data already written.

Before you answer, check: Are all instructions met? If key information is missing or a placeholder in square brackets is still in the text, ask instead of guessing. Mark assumptions as assumptions.

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Copy the finished prompt into an AI tool of your choice.
Walk through the plan with the person running the release and test the rollback once in a test environment.

Why does this work?

Planning the rollback before the release makes decisions faster and calmer in an emergency. The question about data already written uncovers the most common reason rollbacks fail.

Tips

Mobile apps have no real rollback; plan a server-side switch or a block for the new feature instead.

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