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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...
Product Practice #401 How to Close Your Confidence Loop PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, Most teams can tell you what they're building. Far fewer can tell you why it matters and how they will know it has worked. And I mean in a connected, defensible way that traces from their next release or discovery back to a company goal. That gap is where confidence lives (or doesn't). The confidence loop describes the critical questions you need to be able to answer and connect to...
Product Practice #399 How to Connect Strategy,Goals and Discovery PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Most product teams don't have a strategy or OKR problem. They have a connection problem. My new Progress Wheel Intensive is a full-day working session for ambitious product teams where we fix that together — using your actual product context, not hypotheticals. Book a call to talk about it. Dear Reader, Often, the core concepts I share on how teams can make real progress by connecting...