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How to Connect Strategy, Goals, and Discovery (LIVE)
How to Connect Strategy,
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Dear Reader,
Often, the core concepts I share on how teams can make real progress by connecting Strategy, Goals, and Discovery are better explained in images than words.
Like this Sketchnote by Julia Steier (from a talk recording)
Or this mind map by Jerry Odenwelder (after reading my book):
Or, my personal favorite, the Progress Wheel:
For practical guidance on how to live this as a product team...
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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 #416 How to Connect OKRs to OSTs PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) help you measure strategic progress. OSTs (Opportunity Solution Trees) are a visual structure for connecting solution and problem spaces to business goals. Let me break down how the layers of an OST connect to the practices of OKR drafting and execution: Layer 1: The Outcome Teresa differentiates between business outcomes, product outcomes, traction metrics...
Product Practice #415 Accelerated Context and the Validation Sparring Partner PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, Most of the AI conversation in product management right now is either describing doomsday scenarios, exaggerated improvements, or warning about what might go wrong. But I am more interested in what changes for product teams doing real work. When a product team adopts an AI tool, what specifically changes about their day? What benefit do they keep coming back for,...
Product Practice #414 Content Highlights of 2026 (so far) PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO 🚨 NEW LIVE WORKSHOPS ANNOUNCED (Virtual) August 26: From Staring at KPIs to Prioritizing with OKRs, in 6 Hours Sep 1 - 24: How to Build and Execute a Winning Product Strategy Dear Reader, With the year nearing its halfway point, I wanted to reflect on the ideas that resonated the most with my readers and followers. Which led me to bring you concise summaries of my most popular content of the...