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Long Backlogs and Unmeasurable Work
From my experience, there are two common reasons why I see product backlogs become long and unmanageable.
A lack of strategy and, therefore, backlogs become a dumping ground for any and every idea.
Working big, breaking down big solutions, rather than breaking down the outcome (refer to my last post)
Ditch Epics & User Stories and Focus on Outcomes
When I've helped organisations become more outcome/product orientated, more often than not, I've moved them away from 'epics' and 'user stories' and towards things like one-pagers, opportunities, hypotheses, etc. Why? Because they’re are better tools for facilitating outcome thinking and experimentation.