AB #009: KPI Trees 🌲, Transforming to the product model, Feedback on my coaching
AB #009: KPI Trees 🌲, Transforming to the product model, Feedback on my coaching
Maybe the best gift this Q4 is a KPI Tree so you can best plan for 2024. 💝
In today’s bento…
🎁 Win a copy of Evidence Guided by my friend Itamar Guilad
🎅🏽 Santa is bringing you a bento and a tree…a KPI tree that is…
🍽️ Lunch at Astrance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ + I get to meet a celebrity (again)
🎧 A new episode of Product Squad is live with Lea Hickman (SVPG, Invision, Adobe, AOL) 🇺🇸
🩺 Check out the feedback from my Product+Career Clinic!
Refer Axel’s Bento 🍱 and win a chance to grab Evidence Guided by my friend Itamar Gilad
Research shows that most of what we build creates little or no value for our users and the business. To break away from this harsh reality, you need to adopt a different system, one that combines human judgment with evidence.
In this book, Itamar Gilad presents an actionable model to bring evidence-guided development into your organization. Combining tried-and-tested methods with tools created by the author, Evidence-Guided offers a systematic approach—the GIST model (Goals, Ideas, Steps, and Tasks)—to help you create high-impact products.
You'll learn how to choose the right outcomes, prioritize ideas, build and learn at a fast pace, and collaborate more effectively with teammates, managers, and stakeholders. The book provides principles, models, processes, and tools (such as the popular Confidence Meter shown below) all demonstrated through real-world examples and infused with nuance gained through years of practice.
Enter the prize draw by referring 5 friends to Axel’s Bento.
🎁 There are 3 eBook copies to win!!!
Winners will be announced in a couple of weeks.
To enter the draw, you must refer at least 5 friends while being logged in with your substack account (otherwise I have no way to know who you are 😅).
🌲 Maybe this Q4 article about KPI Trees is an early Christmas present 💝
In last week’s bento, you met Louisa. Did you know she has a keen interest in data and how it is used as a key dimension in the craft of product?
Well, I’m thrilled she decided to join the newsletter as a guest writer and share her experience and learnings in this very comprehensive article about KPI Trees.
The timing is perfect as Q4 = planning season, and we all know you have to send in these forecasts for 2024 soon. So maybe this will help.
P.S.: Don’t worry, Part 2 of Damien’s storytelling piece is coming soon. ✨
🏞️ Worthy Eateries
This week I wanted to share my recent experience at Astrance (prev. 3 stars in the Michelin guide).
You might not know this, but as a Michelin-starred restaurant, you lose all awarded stars if you change your restaurant venue.
Stars are awarded for a dining experience in its holistic sense, not only for the chef or the team.
Anyway, so here I am at Astrance eating at chef Pascal Barbot’s amazing table, not knowing that my friends Florence and Thomas in the kitchen had planned for my visit.
Pascal Barbot is a genius (that’s what my friends say) and is recognised as a key figure in French modern cuisine. He’s particularly known for having trained a new generation of female chefs ( Adeline Grattard, Tatiana Levha, Agata Felluga and Manon Fleury).
I knew what I was getting to here, given I had experienced the team’s work previously when they were at Cena while waiting for the works to be completed at the former Joël Robuchon’s Jamin.
On top of an exquisite lunch, I also got to meet someone who’s been a huge inspiration to me and who inspired me to go to culinary school and think about becoming a chef. Bjorn Frantzen (see middle picture with Florence, my best pal from culinary school) is a world-class chef and restaurateur, known for his 3-star Stockholm restaurant bearing his last name and currently sitting at the 6th position on the World’s 50 Best ranking.
Product x Food: If you’re a die-hard foodie and would enjoy an exceptional meal with other foodies like Damien, Louisa and me, please let me know by replying to this email.
I want to get a sense of how many readers here could be part of a group dining experience. 💛
🎧 Product Squad is back baby!
The new episode of Product Squad is out, and it’s in English 🇺🇸.
Don’t miss my conversation with Lea Hickman from Silicon Valley Product Group.
We discuss the importance of coaching in product leadership, the meaning of transformation, and how companies can successfully implement the product model. Lea shares her insights and experiences from her career, highlighting the impact that coaching has had on her own growth.
🩺 Feedback from my Product Clinic
A few weeks back, I opened weekly 30-minute slots for people who need help with a specific situation they’re faced with.
ICYMI Here’s some feedback I got from one of these free coaching slots this week.
I don’t usually get feedback unless I specifically ask for it.
This one made my day! 💛
If you feel like you need help or just want to sense check something, fill in this short form, and I’ll get back to you.
Depending on how this goes, I might not have time for everyone straight away, but will get back to you in any case.
That’s how I grow, too. 💫
Want to help by contributing (long form written content)? Drop me a note.
Peace out! ✌🏽
📣 I’m looking for sponsors for the podcast.
Drop me a note if you want to know more!
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