Else van der Berg Interim Product Lead/Advisor with a knack for strategic thinking. I help tech companies build products with customer and business impact.

Stories by Else van der Berg

How To Make Sense Of Your Product Data With An Evidence Map

How to make sense of your product data with an evidence map

Product Management

Turn interviews, prototypes, and MVP results into clear insights with evidence maps for smarter product decisions.

Else van der Berg
Aug 19, 2025 ⋅ 4 min read
How I Use A Metrics Tree To Align, Prioritize, And Track Progress

How I use a metrics tree to align, prioritize, and track progress

Product Management

Learn how to build a metrics tree to align goals, track progress, and prioritize features that drive real product outcomes.

Else van der Berg
Aug 12, 2025 ⋅ 8 min read
How To Build Autonomous Teams That Still See The Bigger Picture

How to build autonomous teams that still see the bigger picture

Product Management

Discover how to keep outcome-driven teams focused on the big picture and prevent siloed thinking that slows product success.

Else van der Berg
Aug 5, 2025 ⋅ 6 min read
Why PMs Must Help Architect Distribution, Not Just Adapt To It

Why PMs must help architect distribution, not just adapt to it

Product Management

PMs need to move beyond feature delivery to help shape distribution strategy. Learn how org design can support this shift.

Else van der Berg
Jul 24, 2025 ⋅ 7 min read
How To Use AI Tools For Your Customer Discovery

How to use AI tools for your customer discovery

Product Management

Learn how to use AI for faster, smarter customer discovery—without losing the human insight that makes product work effective.

Else van der Berg
Jun 12, 2025 ⋅ 6 min read

Your MVP didn’t fail; you didn’t set it up to teach you anything

Product Management

We’ve all read “The Lean Startup.” We get the theory. But when it’s time to ship, somehow we mess it up anyway.

Else van der Berg
May 8, 2025 ⋅ 5 min read
5 Lessons From Helping 9 Startups Nove to Outcome-Driven Work

5 lessons from helping 9 startups move to outcome-driven work

Product Management

Learn five essential lessons from guiding nine startups to an outcome-driven, product-led approach, including niche focus, flexible frameworks, and decisive action.

Else van der Berg
Jun 28, 2024 ⋅ 8 min read
Scaling Up How To Not Destroy Company Culture

Scaling up: How to not destroy your company culture

Product Management

By rapidly changing the set of people who make up the company, you change your company’s DNA.

Else van der Berg
Jun 14, 2024 ⋅ 7 min read
How To Connect Business Metrics To Customer Opportunities

How to connect business metrics to customer opportunities

Product Management

I often help product teams move from reactive, stakeholder-driven ways of working to strategic, outcome-driven ways. In this process, I […]

Else van der Berg
Apr 26, 2024 ⋅ 7 min read

Unpacking data skills for product managers

Product Management

Whether you call it data-driven or data-informed, PMs need to know how to work with qualitative and quantitative data.

Else van der Berg
Apr 17, 2024 ⋅ 7 min read

Balancing long term investments vs. quick wins

Product Management

As a product manager, making decisions on what to develop next is the most difficult and important part of your role.

Else van der Berg
Mar 28, 2024 ⋅ 6 min read
What To Do If Your Customers Dont Want To Talk To You

What if your customers don’t want to talk to you?

Product Management

Startups with fewer than 500 customers and startups targeting niche target audiences especially have a hard time.

Else van der Berg
Feb 15, 2024 ⋅ 7 min read