Jack Collier

🚨More free training events! This time it’s building high performing teams, and we’re down in London. Perfect for delivery people, project folk and anyone leading teams or thinking of doing so. 7th November, 930-1230 Sign up here transformuk.com/post/upcoming-…

Two events today 🙌 Product 101 - introducing policy people, business analysts, and project managers to product management. and probabilistic forecasting with @DeliverSessions this evening. Obv pizza is on the menu 🍕

I’m not @SDinGov this year, but if I was, I would totally be signing up to hear Yemi talk about designing for vulnerable people. Serious FOMO though, SO many great speakers this year! You’ll all smash it 🙌 govservicedesign.net/programme/cham…

Come hang out and learn about probabilistic forecasting in Manchester on 19th September, grab a ticket here 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/deliver-sess…

If you're interested in learning more about Product, we're running a free Product 101 academy in Manchester on 19th September. Share with your product people and sign-up! details below 👇 transformuk.com/post/upcoming-…

I particularly enjoyed the conversation around public sector and AI with @ShaffyDG @count_makewords and Emily last week. So many use cases in education and health/social care, but a gap around governance/ethics and taking the lead that needs to be filled

Nice perspective from our CEO @EmmaTg46 on what AI might mean for you. I've been enjoying exploring what AI means for different sectors by exploring through doing. And it's refreshing seeing strong female leadership in this space 👉 transformuk.com/data-ai-accele…

@LukeMorton Congrats mate! And great hearing about the experiments unfolding

Wow, the last few weeks went by quickly, didn’t they? Over the last six weeks I’ve been having the most fun I’ve had since starting OpenDigital. I’ve just completed my third sprint, with awesome wins and as usual a few lessons to learn from! Oh and some personal news 💡💡👇 You can roughly categorise each six week iteration as so: 🛠️ Sprint 1: Developing MVP for first idea 💫 Sprint 2: Pivoting and letting go of the first idea 🧪 Sprint 3: Testing multiple hypotheses 🆕 Next sprint: See below! After putting all my eggs in one basket at the start of this journey, I’ve now been running simultaneous experiments. I have used the fabled pitch deck to get feedback from friends, colleagues and connections. Sending a 5-10 slide pitch deck has been a great way to test ideas before investing more energy. I want to share a couple of the ideas I've been testing with users. Feel free to provide feedback in the comments or via DM! *** 🚪 FirstStage: Quality applications. Faster interviews. Better hires. Recruitment is inefficient. Between 2-4% (average across industries) of applicants get the role, so your talent team spends plenty of time with unsuccessful candidates. 40% of talent time is estimated to be spent on scheduling! FirstStage provides a front door to your talent pipeline. Candidates submit applications faster and to a higher quality. Candidates can be interviewed instantly when applying or in their own time 24/7 with chat-based interviews. Those hiring can make decisions with better data. All integrated into your existing tech. Current status: Interviews and summaries are being tested in a trial with a live role. A number of companies with graduate schemes have expressed interest. Will begin wider candidate user testing in the next few weeks. *** 🏡 CopyEstate: Content and comms writing for real estate teams Collating information, creating and distributing listings, comms between vendors, buyers and partners, all take time out of an estate agent's day when they should be selling. CopyEstate provides an agent with a personal assistant and content writer. Send photos, audio notes, text and documents to the assistant via WhatsApp, who will then generate property listings, draft invites to view, and organise viewings with vendors. Get agents back to what they do best! Current status: Prototype being built using iterative user testing with agents. Further market and problem analysis needed to develop the proposition. *** AI is presenting a huge opportunity to increase front line staff productivity and everywhere I turn people are willing to work with OpenDigital to help develop these ideas into working products. For that I am very humbly grateful 🙏 If you’d like to get involved in any way, please let me know! *** And in some amazing personal news, Adele and I are expecting a baby daughter in early September 🐣 Currently 80% excited, 20% freaking out! Context on picture: family wedding, not ours! We’ve got enough going on 😅

I finally managed to get to @DeliverSessions last night. So good to hang out with delivery people in real life and hear from some great speakers 🙌

📅When: 5th July 📍Where: BFI Southbank, London ⏲️ Time: 8.45-10.45 (panel starting at 9.45) 💸 Free Get in touch with transformation@transformUK.com if you want to come along 🙌

I'm looking forward to asking whether AI is going to destroy humanity... 🤖 in all seriousness, if you want to find out more about AI, come to our event on the 5th July. Starring some diverse views from NatWest, GymGroup and Anglian Water. transformuk.com/post/upcoming-…

@tewilliam @MoJGovUK @HMCTSgovuk @GDSTeam @Justice_Digital @DfE_DigitalTech @educationgovuk Tracey! Thanks so much for being an incredible mentor, boss and colleague, which I’m sure many people will be saying to you. What a stint! Good luck in your new adventure, looking forward to hearing all about it ❤️

*Personal news* Today marked my last day as a civil servant, over 12 years after starting at @MoJGovUK before working in @HMCTSgovuk @GDSTeam @Justice_Digital @DfE_DigitalTech & @educationgovuk. It's a wrench to leave, but I've finally decided it's time to try something new 🧵

So grateful and inspired by the brilliant @JaimellaE who came to speak to us about creating laughter in teams and it’s benefits. Particularly loved instructions on how to make tumbleweed. 🙏

@LauraParkerUX @monzo @equalsShaun Top news! And congrats!

@DeepeeMB1 Brilliant!

Honoured to be here today. Time to gain some insights to help me drive what I’m passionate about! D&I Leaders Global Forum 2023

Great few days @agilemanc learned lots and met some great folk. Shout out to all the speakers and organisers ❤️ I’ve had a blast

Really enjoyed hearing Matt Skelton talk about the social practices that support fast flow in software delivery. Definitely resonates, particularly lunchtime talks and helping people getting used to articulating the value of their work (show the thing, people!) #agilemanc

@ClaireFolan Had the best people on it

@jackcols Ah interesting topic Jack! 😅✌️

I’m back from holidays in the Finnish forests 🌳 and speaking at Agile Manchester this week with some really fantastic folks. It’s nice to be able to connect with real people in the north 🙌 Who else is going? Fancy meeting up? agilemanchester.net

@ewebber Amen! 🙏

@ewebber I’m a full time Mancunian now! So I’m going to be there tomorrow. I see you’re Liverpool 👀👀👀