ProductTank Birmingham - March 2016

This month's ProductTank will be product management and Digital in Government.

We're very excited to welcome Jock Busuttil, as our speaker on this topic, one of our favourite product management bloggers and author. We will also be giving away a few copies of his must-read book The Practitioner's Guide to Product Management (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practitioners-Guide-Product-Management-Things/dp/034940674X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450280160&sr=8-1&keywords=a+practitioner%27s+guide+to+product+management) to some lucky attendees.

Jock Busuttil (http://linkedin.com/in/jbusuttil) is the founder of Product People (http://productpeo.pl/), which is a group of interim product managers for organisations needing an extra pair of hands. He's also the author of The Practitioner's Guide to Product Management, which was published in 2015, and the blog I Manage Products.

Through Product People, he has worked for several places, large and small, including the Reuters Institute of Journalism, the Nike Foundation, BBC, Ministry of Justice Digital, as well as several startups. Jock also co-wrote and ran the PM Essentials training workshop for Mind The Product conference last year, and mentors people in product management.

Twitter: @jockbu (https://twitter.com/jockbu)

We're also excited to welcome Holly Garrett who is very well placed to tell us more about product management and digital in government. Holly will talk about the challenges and opportunities of iterating a live product and specifically the GOV.UK Finding things team and the work they have been doing to make it easy for users to find the things they need now that everything is in one place.

Holly Garrett (https://twitter.com/hollgarrett) is a product manager at Government Digital Services (GDS) (https://gds.blog.gov.uk/) and works on GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/) as the product manager for the Finding things team (https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/12/18/finding-things-on-gov-uk/). If you are not aware of the great work that the GDS team have been doing and the great product processes and approaches that they have, this is a great opportunity to hear about it.

This month's ProductTank Brum is curated by Keji Adedeji (https://twitter.com/KZAaaaM)and hosted by Talis (https://talis.com/).