Turn what you know into a decision you can explain.
Bring related problems into a theme. Review the current analysis, choose the next step, and keep the reasons with the work.
Bring the right problems together.
A theme groups confirmed problems that you want to understand and plan together. Each problem keeps the evidence behind it.
Two invitation failures may belong in the same theme without having the same cause. Keep that distinction visible.
Review the current learning.
Nova prepares an analysis of the linked problems: possible causes, assumptions, options, contradictions, and what remains uncertain.
This is the theme’s current Learning. Versions let you see how the analysis changes. Its recommendation is a starting point for your judgment.
Choose what happens next.
Review the prepared decision, its problem scope, and the learning it uses. Choose to explore, validate, build, fix, defer, or decline.
A Decision records your commitment, rationale, and the version of the analysis you used. A later change of direction gets a new decision, preserving the earlier reasoning.
Next: give the work its context.
This preview walkthrough ends with the saved decision. Its next step is to connect an investigation Work Item. An investigation can end with a learning rather than a product change.
When something changes in the product, keep that Change connected. Return to the evidence before deciding whether the original problem is resolved.
Follow one decision from the source.
Keep the recommendation and the commitment distinct.