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
Content Highlights of 2026 (so far)
Content Highlights of 2026 (so far)🚨 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 year (so far). And since I focused a lot on live formats like webinars, these are at the center of it. Please enjoy! Use Real-Life Metrics Trees to Define NSMs, OKRs, and KPIs WebinarMetrics trees should help you identify actionable levers, not just produce an impressive diagram. In this webinar, I use real-life cases to show how to structure a MECE tree, choose which metrics should become KPIs or a North Star Metric, and identify the few metrics worth prioritizing through OKRs. Connect Strategy, Goals, and Discovery with Progress Wheel WebinarStrategy, goals, and Discovery are often treated as separate activities, even though a weakness in one is often best addressed by another. In this webinar, I use the Progress Wheel to show how Strategy helps teams say yes and no, goals make progress measurable, and Discovery reduces uncertainty with evidence. AI-Assisted Product Discovery Webinar RecordingJulia Bastian and I unpack where AI genuinely accelerates Product Discovery and where it creates plausible-looking but shallow “Discovery Slop.” The session covers research agents, the changing Product Trio, and why synthesizing across contexts remains different from summarizing what is already in front of you. From OKR Theater to Pragmatic Outcome Steering WebinarMost OKR problems cannot be fixed by writing prettier Objectives or adding another process meeting. This webinar shows how to clarify what should change because you use OKRs, adapt the system to your organization, and create Key Results you can actually use to steer decisions. 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. |
Product Practice Newsletter
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 #422 How to Go from an AI Product Strategy to Quarterly OKRs PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Before we begin: Fixing Your Product Strategy in Real Time Webinar Announcement A live clinic on real product strategies, now that AI makes every value proposition and differentiation sound the same. Come with your real-life questions; leave with answers you can implement immediately. Join for Free Dear Reader, Useful OKR sets stand on the shoulders of high-quality inputs...
Product Practice #421 My 2026 Mid-Year Review PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, It's that time of the year again. A look back at HY1 priorities and what's next: Continued Book Promotion After the launch of Real Progress, I had the honor of being on more podcasts to talk about the core ideas and spread the word further. For example, through discussions like this one with Stephanie Leue: Tim Herbig on the wheel that... Jun 10 · ProductOrg: Unmasked 38:11 Public Workshops...
Product Practice #420 What to think abouton a Slow Summer Friday PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, This newsletter is going to be a bit different. I hope many of you have a chance to enjoy a well-deserved break or at least are preparing for it. I'm in the midst of some quality time off and wanted to use this Friday to simply reach out, say hi, and leave you with one really good reading recommendation to consider (which you can always find below). Next week I will be back in...