1 tip & 3 resources per week to improve your Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery practices in less than 5 minutes.
🛠️ My Most Popular Ideas of 2024
My Most Popular Ideas of 2024​Dear Reader,​ These five ideas had the biggest impact on my own thinking or my readers and consulting clients throughout 2024: ​Treating Ways of Working Like Products​The core message of my talk at Product at Heart was to avoid Alibi Progress by treating domains like Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery like products. I received so much positive feedback on this framing that I can't wait to explore it further in my upcoming book (more on that next week).
​Translating Company OKRs to Team Action​Struggling with company OKRs that feel impossible to influence? Discover how to transform broad company metrics into actionable team KRs through William H. Dettner's adapted "sphere of influence" framework.
​ ​How to Go from Vision to OKRs​Most companies struggle to connect their big vision to daily work. Through a football club example, I explained the exact steps to build your strategy chain: Vision → North Star → Strategy → Discovery → OKRs.
​ ​How does your Traffic Light Strategy look?​Your Product Strategy doesn't have to be 100% proven before you start sharing it. Instead, embrace your assumptions by using the Traffic Light approach to identify what's rock-solid (Green), what has just enough conviction (Yellow), and what needs more evidence (Red). This simple method helps you focus discovery efforts where they matter most to reduce uncertainty.
​ ​What is a Product? 5 CPOs Share Their Truth​Every organization needs to define what a product means to them. Through conversations with CPOs from Hemnet, Native Instruments, Tinder, and more, I explored how products create value through both utility and entertainment. Learn why a product is more than just a widget—it's an experience that creates outcomes.
​ If you have ever benefited from my content, I'd appreciate it if you would share​ this newsletter on LinkedIn. It truly helps. Thank you for Practicing Product, ​Tim​ Good News!Tickets are on sale for my in-person Product Discovery workshop on March 10 in London (as part of the Mind the Product conference).
As a Product Management Coach, I guide Product Teams to measure the real progress of their evidence-informed decisions. I focus on better practices to connect the dots of Product Strategy, Product OKRs, and Product Discovery. |
Product Practice Newsletter
1 tip & 3 resources per week to improve your Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery practices in less than 5 minutes.
Product Practice #353 How Duolingo Approaches Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery READ ON HERBIG.CO PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2025 READING TIME 4 min & 24 sec Dear Reader, Many Product Managers were in awe of the ways of working shared in The Duolingo Handbook a few weeks ago. While it’s an inspiring read, I used this as a reason to revisit some of my all-time favorite reads about how this company operates (or at least used to operate) and extract my takeaways with you. Duolingo focuses on “Movable” Metrics...
Product Practice #352 My Digitale Leute Summit 2024 Keynote Recording and Slides READ ON HERBIG.CO PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2025 READING TIME 1 min & 40 sec Dear Reader, I'm excited to share the full recording of my talk on How Product Teams Can Connect the Dots of Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery from last year's Digitale Leute Summit. You can think of it as the naturally progressing chapter (hint hint) that would follow my talk from Product at Heart 2024. As always, I won't require you, as an...
Product Practice #351 The Post-it trap: Why Strategy needs more than Workshops READ ON HERBIG.CO PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2025 READING TIME 5 min & 19 sec Dear Reader, 'Product Strategy by Post-it' occurs when teams prioritize filling out frameworks over making real strategic choices. It's a common symptom of treating strategy as a checkbox exercise rather than a tool for decision-making. John Cutler even suggests that most frameworks should feature a warning label like this: "This framework is...