This document discusses how story mapping can help development teams maintain the big picture view of a project. It describes how user stories are typically written from sources like user research and product goals. The document advocates moving to a more user-centered approach where stories are written in the third person based on personas developed from user research. Story mapping techniques are presented as a way to organize user stories into a visual map that shows the overall flow and context of tasks. Maintaining an up-to-date story map can help teams make better decisions and ensure nothing is missed from the project scope.