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My 2025 Mid-Year Review
My 2025 Mid-Year ReviewDear Reader, What I focused on in the first half of 2025Writing and Editing My BookAfter a big writing push from February to April, I was able to share the first complete draft of my book Real Progress - How to Connect Product Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery, with beta readers. Their thoughtful feedback helped me to streamline the book's concepts even further and identify gaps and inconsistencies, which in turn helped the core messages come across more clearly. A Broad Range of Client WorkWhether it was a talk at a company offsite, organizing a company-wide Product Training Day, or upskilling entire product organizations through training and coaching, 2025 was marked by fulfilling client engagements across various industries and challenges. Quality Time with Friends and FamilyI am lucky to have people around me whom I enjoy spending time with. With friends and family alike, I had the privilege of taking little trips across Europe, which helped me recharge mentally and physically between book and client work. Most of the recent "coffee shots" I shared over the past weeks stemmed from these experiences. In addition, here's a moment of full bliss from a trip to Düsseldorf with one of my best friends. What I will focus on in the second half of 2025Publishing my BookI'm working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the launch of my book in the fall. That means tackling layout and design questions, adding finishing touches to flows, and preparing complementary templates to help you put the concepts into practice. Talking about my BookTim Ferriss once said that a book is about two marathons: One is writing the book, the other is marketing it. You could say that I'm currently in the process of warming up for the second marathon. I have a few enjoyable public and in-house activities on the calendar to share the book's core ideas. If you're interested in hosting a book club with me or booking me for an event or podcast, please get in touch via this contact form. Hands-on Client WorkAside from ongoing client work, I look forward to a range of workshop, consulting, and speaking activities with new and existing clients. All focused on the intentional usage of Strategy, OKR, and Discovery methods in their context. I’m excited for what’s to come and sharing the journey with you. 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 PS: My coffee vibe for the summer Let's Meet in Berlin!At this year's ProductLab Conference in Berlin on September 18, I’ll host a roundtable focused on the fundamental value of setting goals and the contextual practices that will help you move from reporting OKRs to steering with OKRs. We skip the Google-esque basics and work on small wins that will help you get more value from your OKRs, right now. Use code JoinMeProductLabConf to get up to €50 off your ticket.
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 #426 You don’t need toinvestigate every problem PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, Discovery without direction leads to endless exploration. Teams can feel overwhelmed, believing they must investigate every problem. Your strategic audience choices determine which customer feedback deserves priority investigation, while discovery insights reveal whether your strategic assumptions about customer problems and competitive positioning hold up in practice. This...
Product Practice #425 What Part of YouIs Making the Decision? PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, For much of my career, I’ve helped product teams work through uncertainty. Chilling with my buddy King Arthur at Tintagel Castle I challenged assumptions, introduced frameworks, and helped people make better decisions when there was no obvious answer. While I still love doing that work, I’ve become increasingly interested in a deeper question over the past six years: From where...
Product Practice #424 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, “Let’s prioritize by value.” Value for whom? That was the question I explored in last week's essay Business Value, Customer Value, and Team Value Are Different Arguments. Today, let's demystify the term value even further. Nothing is inherently valuable. The same opportunity can have different value under different strategies. For that narrative to check out, we need...