Patricia is a new product owner. She’s passionate about the product and is an expert on the market and users, but she’s not as familiar with agile. As a seasoned agile team member, what do you hope to see Patricia bring to the team’s decision making process for the next sprint?

Identifying thinnest possible layers of high priority narrative is one of the most important decision making contributions of the product owner. If instead the stories are prioritized in terms of functional blocks, you may end up with something with a lot of depth, but that isn’t testable as a coherent, end-to-end user experience.