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 #362 The Progress Wheel: My favorite Structure to Connect the Dots READ ON HERBIG.CO PUBLISHED May 9, 2025 READING TIME 4 min & 48 sec Dear Reader, Real Progress happens when you choose methods because they create value for you in your context, and you can use each domain to improve the others. To make Real Progress, teams need to understand and practice two core ideas: Putting the value of a practice before the selection of a method or framework is crucial to avoid getting...
Product Practice #361 Connecting North Star Metricsto Business Models READ ON HERBIG.CO PUBLISHED May 2, 2025 READING TIME 4 min & 45 sec Dear Reader, In many organizations, there's still a disconnect between product and business metrics. Product teams focus on customer-centric outcomes while business teams chase financial targets, with neither side fully trusting how one drives the other. When done right, a North Star Metric (NSM) can establish a middle ground that brings together both...
Product Practice #360 Why your Product DiscoveryFeels too Theoretical READ ON HERBIG.CO PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2025 READING TIME 4 min & 17 sec Dear Reader, Over the past two weeks, I've explored treating Product Strategy and OKRs like products to avoid Alibi Progress. Today, let's tackle the practice that often gets dismissed as "good in theory, impossible in practice" — Product Discovery. When teams tell me "we don't have time for proper Discovery," they're usually stuck in Alibi Progress —...