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This is my blog about product management, product leadership, digital transformation, and coffee.

Hi I’m Scott and I love products that improve lives. I’ve worked on products and services with a social mission for over fifteen years. Currently Head of Product for the Ministry of Justice. Previously worked with lots of great organisations including BBC Young Reporter, Catch22, Deparment for Education, Diabetes UK, European Commission, General Assembly, Google.org, Inside Job Productions, Mind Of My Own, New Philanthropy Capital, Young Dads Collective.

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Posts

Apr 3, 2021
Do you know an unsung hero of a product manager?
Dec 27, 2020
2020 Highlights
Dec 24, 2020
Ten Year Retrospective: 2010-2020
Dec 14, 2020
Book Update: The Beginning of the End
Sep 27, 2020
How to make espresso with 9barista
Aug 23, 2020
Book Update: The End of the Beginning
May 11, 2020
Book Update: Pride and Prejudice and Moths
Mar 30, 2020
Book Update: Maelstrom
Jan 6, 2020
2020 Vision: Be a good dad, write a book
Dec 14, 2019
My favourite books, films, TV, and videogames in 2019
Sep 1, 2019
Product Leadership
Aug 5, 2019
How I blog
Jun 19, 2019
How blogging helped me become a better product leader
Apr 8, 2019
Who's got time for digital transformation?
Mar 20, 2019
How do we measure the value of software features of public services?
Mar 19, 2019
How do we measure value without profit?
Mar 17, 2019
Digital transformation needs business models
Feb 16, 2019
Espresso yourself: eight-years of making espresso at home, in one post
Feb 12, 2019
Be prepared for the emotional impact of introducing psychological safety
Jan 3, 2019
Associate Product Manager Program Blueprint
Jan 2, 2019
What is product management in government?
Dec 12, 2018
My favourite films, books, TV, videogames, comics, and places to eat in 2018
Nov 17, 2018
Choosing a coffee brewer
Sep 30, 2018
Product roadmaps and me
Sep 25, 2018
Another reason why product managers are not like CEOs
May 14, 2018
What is an end-to-end public service?
Mar 3, 2018
How to brew coffee using an Aeropress
Mar 2, 2018
Leadership dimensions: value management
Jan 29, 2018
Leadership dimensions
Jan 21, 2018
Coffee places: Prufrock at Present, Shoreditch
Jan 20, 2018
Coffee places: Flat White, Soho
Jan 12, 2018
Personal pivot. WTF is leadership?
Jan 1, 2018
My favourite books, films and videogames in 2017
Dec 24, 2017
Don't make espresso at home, probably
Oct 8, 2017
How to brew French Press coffee
Sep 17, 2017
The product manager is dead. Long live the value manager.
Sep 4, 2017
How to brew filter coffee
Aug 19, 2017
10 experiments you can try to improve discovery
Aug 15, 2017
10 things we learned about discovery in government
Aug 14, 2017
Run a retrospective on your discovery
Jun 3, 2017
The Agile Manifesto for Public Services
Apr 26, 2017
The Five Stages of Applying the Digital Service Standard to Technical Stuff
Dec 27, 2016
Discovery
Nov 14, 2016
Product Managers: glue code for insights, not mini CEOs.
Apr 17, 2016
Digital by Default Prehistory
Apr 9, 2016
Trying GitHub Pages and Jekyll
Feb 28, 2016
Technical Product Management for the Non-Technical
Jan 19, 2016
Waterfall, Scrum or Kanban?
Nov 17, 2015
Product in Public Services
Oct 17, 2015
DevOps for Product Managers
Jul 23, 2015
Empathy and Digital Transformation
Jan 30, 2015
UKGovcamp 15
May 20, 2014
Hacker, hustler or hipster?
Nov 20, 2013
Great businesses grow from conversations
Sep 20, 2013
Business Model Canvas
May 18, 2013
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Jun 5, 2012
Lean Startup for Product Managers