Scott Colfer
Talks and Public Speaking
Product Discovery
Scott has reviewed over 50 product discoveries and shares expert guidance on how to succeed.
Pragmatic Product
Author of 'Product in Service', Scott shares expert guidance on adopting and adapting a product way of working in the messy reality of modern organisations.
Speaker Bio
Scott Colfer helped shape discovery and pragmatic product and has delivered these talks to many organisations. Get in touch on LinkedIn to request a talk.
Product Discovery
Scott led product discovery in the early 2010s, helping startups and nonprofits to uncover new opportunities. In the later 2010s Scott helped introduce product discovery to the UK government, reviewing over 50 discoveries for new digital public services. He now helps clients across sectors to improve their approach to discovery.Scott has a 40 minute discovery talk covering how to avoid falling in love with solutions, and how to avoid falling in love with problems. He can do a 20 minute talk on just avoiding falling in love with solutions, or a 20 minute talk on avoiding falling in love with problems.You can see a recording of Scott's 20-minute talk on falling in love with solutions here, given as part of Leeds Digital Festival.
Pragmatic Product
Scott is author of 'Product in Service'. In his book he provides an alternative to one-size-fits-all product operating models that rarely work in the messy reality of modern organisations, instead sharing pragmatic approaches to product management.Scott has a 40 minute talk covering the problems with product operating models, a more flexible product mindset, and guidance on how to define what a product is. He can do a 20 minute talk on just the mindset, or on defining products in a service context.You can see a recording of Scott's 40 minute talk here.
Speaker Bio
Scott’s led digital strategy, transformation, and product for over a decade. He helped shaped product management in the service sector, co-writing the product management role for the UK Government and contributing to the Government Service Standard. He used this to introduce outcome-based investment review in a public service setting. Scott founded the Product Leaders Network, the largest network of its kind with over 130 product leaders in the service sector. He's Director of Product for Herd Consulting.Scott has given talks to many organisations including the Bank of England, Beyond Product Conference, Blackmetric, Cambridge University Press and Assessment, the Department for Education, Defra, Digital Leaders, the European Commission, Leeds Digital Festival, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Product Tank.Get in touch on LinkedIn to request a talk.