I’m Scott Colfer, Director of Product at Herd Consulting. I founded the Product Leaders Community. Connect on LinkedIn
I’ve worked with great organisations including BBC Young Reporter, Catch22, Department for Education, Diabetes UK, European Commission, General Assembly, Google.org, Inside Job Productions, Mind Of My Own, Ministry of Justice, University of Cambridge, New Philanthropy Capital, Westminster City Council and Young Dads Collective.
This blog has over a decade of posts on product management, product leadership, digital transformation, and coffee. Read on for more. I’ve also written for other people, see a sample here.
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Introducing New Wave Product
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Product Leaders for Good WhatsApp Community
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My Social Media Triad for 2024: Substack Journal, GitHub Pages Blog, and LinkedIn Network
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The Science of Strategy
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Scott Colfer's Guide to Making Coffee at Home
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Choosing, Buying and Setting up a Rancilio Silvia Miss Silvia Espresso Machine
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3 Tips for your Gaggia Classic (after I owned one for 10 years)
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Scrambled Eggs
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Notes on the Service Owner role
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The next ten-years of digital government
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So you're a Product Manager in Government
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Digital Folk Tales
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Lessons learned from six-years leading a community of practice
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A Beginner's Guide to Porter and Stout
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5 Tips for Successful Internal Platforms
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What type of product manager are you?
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Why I'm not frustrated with GDS' formal discovery/alpha/beta phases
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Do you know an unsung hero of a product manager?
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2020 Highlights
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Ten Year Retrospective: 2010-2020
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Book Update: The Beginning of the End
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How to make espresso with 9barista
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Book Update: The End of the Beginning
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Book Update: Pride and Prejudice and Moths
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Book Update: Maelstrom
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2020 Vision: Be a good dad, write a book
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My favourite books, films, TV, and videogames in 2019
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Product Leadership
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How I blog
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How blogging helped me become a better product leader
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Who's got time for digital transformation?
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How do we measure the value of software features of public services?
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How do we measure value without profit?
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Digital transformation needs business models
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Espresso yourself: eight-years of making espresso at home, in one post
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Be prepared for the emotional impact of introducing psychological safety
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Associate Product Manager Program Blueprint
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What is product management in government?
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My favourite films, books, TV, videogames, comics, and places to eat in 2018
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Choosing a coffee brewer
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Product roadmaps and me
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Another reason why product managers are not like CEOs
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What is an end-to-end public service?
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How to brew coffee using an Aeropress
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Leadership dimensions: value management
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Leadership dimensions
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Coffee places: Prufrock at Present, Shoreditch
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Coffee places: Flat White, Soho
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Personal pivot. WTF is leadership?
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My favourite books, films and videogames in 2017
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Don't make espresso at home, probably
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How to brew French Press coffee
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The product manager is dead. Long live the value manager.
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How to brew filter coffee
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10 experiments you can try to improve discovery
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10 things we learned about discovery in government
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Run a retrospective on your discovery
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The Agile Manifesto for Public Services
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The Five Stages of Applying the Digital Service Standard to Technical Stuff
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Discovery
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Product Managers: glue code for insights, not mini CEOs.
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Digital by Default Prehistory
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Trying GitHub Pages and Jekyll
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Technical Product Management for the Non-Technical
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Waterfall, Scrum or Kanban?
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Product in Public Services
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DevOps for Product Managers
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Empathy and Digital Transformation
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UKGovcamp 15
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Hacker, hustler or hipster?
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Great businesses grow from conversations
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Business Model Canvas
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Manifesto for Agile Software Development
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Lean Startup for Product Managers