You know the feeling. A strategy doc that reads well but doesn’t rule anything out. An AI-generated synthesis of 40 user interviews that’s technically correct and useless. A prototype that answered the wrong question because that was the tool you happened to reach for. A product that ships and looks like every other SaaS launched this year.
So, no. Tim is not gonna list five variations of „Product Taste“ or „Judgement“ to sell you a Maven course in this talk. Instead, he will open your perspective to attributes and skills that have nothing, and everything to do with making high-impact decisions about building products that solve customer problems and drive business goals.
Follow him on a trip down memory lane where Tim shares fundamental insights about what he wished he had learned sooner in his career, aside from Discovery frameworks and filling Sprint backlogs.
Attributes that stand the test of time and technology and that will require to free yourself from the all-so-present FOMO of missing out on the latest AI model release and the 2476576 Claude Skills cheat sheet.
The tangibility comes from planting concrete practitioner-symptoms in the middle — moments where a PM audience thinks “yes, that’s the room I was in on Tuesday.” You don’t have to name the five skills. You just have to describe what their absence looks like, and let the reader do the mapping.
Product Coach, Author & Speaker.
Tim has spent 16 years in the trenches of Product Management. Working as Product Manager and Head of Product for some of Germany’s largest digital products, as well as coaching teams Lufthansa, The StepStone Group, OTTO, and E.ON make real progress towards creating customer value that drives business goals. He focuses on helping organizations make strategic choices, translate strategy into goals, and reduce the risk of their decisions.
