Justin Barker
Justin is an experienced Programme, Product and Project Manager and has worked across the Telecommunication, Corporate Real Estate (CRE), Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Consulting Sectors.
Leading a wide array of Programmes and Projects including Strategy Definition and Execution, Change Management, IT Product development, IT Infrastructure and Software Development.
Justin holds a number of professional qualifications, including an MBA in Technology Strategy, Project Management Professional (PMP), Scaled Agile (SA), TOGAF 9.1 , Lean Six Sigma and Business Analysis Practice and Requirements Engineering.
Outside of his professional endeavors Justin’s interests and passions span rugby, health and fitness, skiing, sailing, cooking, watching films and reading a wide section of books including historical, fiction, e-business, innovation and philosophy.
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Below you can find a list of my most recent blog posts.
I started creating theses in order to capture my experiences and share lessons learnt, aiding others in their professional journey, as well as hopefully learning something from yourselves. As the names suggests the articles in the blog will fall into one of two categories:
- Articles that discuss general Trends and the potential effects
- Articles that outline tools, techniques and methods to enable you to manage and lead a Transformation initiative
If you happen to have any comments please feel free to add them to each post, or if you are interested in hiring my services you can contact me directly via the Contact Me page.
Cut the crap! The unintended benefits of Lean
I stumbled across this presentation by Dave Hahn, senior SRE at Netflix. Dave provides an entertaining keynote speech on how DevOps works at Netflix. I highly recommend watching it, it’s about 20 minutes long. Though for those of you short on time I’m going to touch on some of my key takeaways in the post […]
3 Laws & first principles
A discussion on the relevancy of Moore’s Law, Neilsen’s Law and Kryder’s Law and the implications on digital product development
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Low code: revolution or evolution?
In the last couple of weeks I have been playing with AppSheet, a ‘low code’ platform. This was driven by a desire to tinker and to determine if this platform could enable a client’s use case. The client, a non-technical business owner who wants to further digitally transform their business, but is constrained by limited […]
The Art of Scoping
What is scoping? Scoping encompasses the relevant practices and processes, to ensure that the project provides all the deliverables required from it and does not expel any unnecessary effort. In the context of this article, I’ll borrow the definition outlined by the PMBOK Guide in that the term scope can refer to: Product Scope – […]