We briefly introduced HDD in the last chapter when we discussed the Lean Startup's Build-Measure-Learn cycle.
As with OKRs, HDD is influenced by our organization's vision, mission, and strategic goals. We set the hypothesis at the feature/epic level; this will span multiple User Stories, sometimes across several teams.
A bit like OKRs, we can also cascade the hypothesis through to the team level, adjusting it accordingly to fit into each User Story's context. We can use the same simple template for both the feature/epic and User Story, which is as follows:
The HDD and User Stories are similar in that they ...
