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Your OKRs Are Fine. Your Strategy-Discovery Gap Isn’t.
My Digitale Leute Summit 2024 Keynote Recording and SlidesDear 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 existing subscriber, to fill out another form to access the slides I presented. You can access the full deck right here. Did you enjoy the newsletter? Please forward it. It only takes two clicks. Creating this one took two hours. Thank you for Practicing Product, Tim 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. |
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1 tip & 3 resources per week to improve your Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery practices in less than 5 minutes. Explore my new book on realprogressbook.com
Product Practice #404 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, During a recent webinar, someone asked a question I had to think about a bit longer: "What do you do when your strategy is still early, and you're not sure if it's right?" The answer that popped into my head was based on an incredible piece of advice (or admission) I received from a former boss 10+ years ago: No one knows if their strategy is right in the beginning,...
Product Practice #403 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, During my last webinar on Connect Strategy, Goals, and Discovery with Progress Wheel, I asked people which part of their work is most prone to Alibi Progress. Almost everyone who chimed in named OKRs. And that's because many OKR cycles start the same way for teams: Someone opens a spreadsheet, fills in three to five semi-random metrics, and picks a value that isn't...
Product Practice #402 Product Discovery forInternal Enabler Teams PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, Because the customers of your product just sit three desks away, you might think you can just "talk to them." And that's precisely what often leads to the low adoption of better product practices among product teams working on internal products (also sometimes called Enabler Teams). And why, when a user has a company email address, it is likely nobody's doing discovery on...