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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. |
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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 #419 Decision Journaling YourWay to Product Sense PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, I know, I know. You probably can't hear the term product sense anymore (welcome to the club). But I recently arrived at a non-thought-leader-y practical angle for cultivating it. "Product Sense is the ability to usually make correct product decisions, both macro & micro, even in the face of major ambiguity"- Shreyas Doshi In a recent client workshop, the topic of product...
Product Practice #418 The Essence of Every Mapping Technique PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Ways we can work together 1️⃣ Order my book: Real Progress: How to Connect the Dots of Product Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery, which readers call "a practical guide you can return to again and again." 2️⃣ Join my Workshop From Staring at KPIs to Prioritizing with OKRs, in 6 Hours, for turning generic dashboard metrics into useful goals, helping you prioritize and measure your work. 3️⃣ Join...
Product Practice #417 User Outcomes are Positively Flipped User Problems PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, Last week, I mapped how OKRs connect to the layers of an Opportunity Solution Tree. But especially the Outcome layer deserves its own issue: turning a customer problem into a team-level Key Result. I first wrote about it in 2023, before I had a name for it. Since then, the positivity flip has become one of the most-used tools in my OKR and Discovery workshops, so...