Building a product is difficult. As a product owner we do not 100% know what problem to solve that will make the desired impact. We can only take create MVPs to validate our hypothesis. The Cynefin Framework is a sense making framework that helps product owners breakdown products in a more manageable approach. Cynefin framework …

Before you start organizing your product backlog, writing your user stories or meeting your stakeholders, create a story map first. When I first started writing my stories I jumped right into writing user stories with well defined acceptance criteria. While my user stories were easy to groom, they failed to illustrate the big picture. In …

In first project I worked on, the metric we were told to focus on was the number of stories groomed in refinement, and the number of stories delivered in a sprint. At the time everyone thought it was a great idea. Story count would incentivize teams to work harder to define, groom and deliver stories …

When I first started my product career, I had the tendency to gather as much info as possible. This is the wrong approach. You will never have enough data or information to remove all ambiguity and unknown in your decisions. Your goal is to get enough information to align yourself and key stakeholders to a …