Everything's a product

Product Managers play a unique role in any organization. They own the roadmap, which is both a plan for what will be, leading to a grand, perfect vision and a constantly-changing set of priorities trying to satisfy myriad stakeholders with conflicting needs. It’s a job that’s incredibly frustrating—and essential if you want real change to happen.
In this opening talk, FWD50 founder Alistair Croll will explain why everyone in government needs to adopt a product mindset in order to deliver meaningful, lasting results. Drawing on examples of public sector modernization as wide-ranging as Christmas Tree permits, registering government websites, speeding up passport delivery, and exploring crime statistics, he’ll make the case for why blind allegiance to processes is killing the public sector, and how to deliver outcome-focused products and services to an increasingly demanding public.