Francis Barton Email & Phone Number | A delivery-focused agile project manager with over 20 years’ software delivery experience, the last 5 using agile methods to deliver on-line solutions in a convenience retail organization. Broad experience working with business colleagues and technical teams to continuously improve the delivery pipeline and maximize value. Passionate about doing the right thing, the right way and in time. Key Achievements • Managed Costcutter’s in-house development team through a period of unprecedented business change whilst at the same time improving its delivery capability • Instrumental in the adoption of Jira Studio to increase visibility of the development process through user stories, product and sprint backlogs, development tasks, estimates and actuals, sprint boards and metrics • Promoted the use of AWS cloud-based EC2 and RDS technologies for deploying in-house developed webapps using open source technologies such as Tomcat and MySQL, presenting at the AWS Summit, London, March 2011 • Led a small agile team in the successful delivery of a number of web-based systems, thereby improving information access for Costcutter’s franchisees and field-based colleagues and reducing licensing and infrastructure costs • Guided a large Scrum team using 4-weekly sprints to successful delivery of the on-line systems required to enable Costcutter to effect a major business transformation in June 2014 • Recommended and facilitated a re-structure of Costcutter’s growing delivery capability into smaller, cross-functional, product-focused squads resulting in reduced cycle times and improved quality through increased ownership and empowerment • Championed the drive towards continuous delivery and the introduction of TDD and automated functional testing • Worked with business stakeholders and 3rd parties to devise a strategy to replace the legacy IT-centric, push-based BI systems with a cloud-based solution to provide actionable insight to colleagues anywhere, anytime, on any-device

Francis Barton

A delivery-focused agile project manager with over 20 years’ software delivery experience, the last...
Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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Francis Barton’s Location Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Francis Barton’s Current Industry Sky Betting And Gaming

Francis Barton’s Prior Industry Costcutter Supermarkets | Uk | Yorkshire Building Society | Leeds City Council

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Work Experience

Sky Betting And Gaming

Technical Delivery Manager

2016-02-01 00:00:00 - Present

Costcutter Supermarkets

It Development Manager

2006-06-01 00:00:00 - 2015-10-01 00:00:00

Uk

Oracle Forms & Reports Contractor

1998-02-01 00:00:00 - 2002-02-01 00:00:00

Yorkshire Building Society

Senior Analyst/ Programmer

1996-01-01 00:00:00 - 1998-01-01 00:00:00

Leeds City Council

Analyst/ Programmer

1992-09-01 00:00:00 - 1996-01-01 00:00:00

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Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Francis Barton is a A delivery-focused agile project manager with over 20 years’ software delivery experience, the last 5 using agile methods to deliver on-line solutions in a convenience retail organization. Broad experience working with business colleagues and technical teams to continuously improve the delivery pipeline and maximize value. Passionate about doing the right thing, the right way and in time. Key Achievements • Managed Costcutter’s in-house development team through a period of unprecedented business change whilst at the same time improving its delivery capability • Instrumental in the adoption of Jira Studio to increase visibility of the development process through user stories, product and sprint backlogs, development tasks, estimates and actuals, sprint boards and metrics • Promoted the use of AWS cloud-based EC2 and RDS technologies for deploying in-house developed webapps using open source technologies such as Tomcat and MySQL, presenting at the AWS Summit, London, March 2011 • Led a small agile team in the successful delivery of a number of web-based systems, thereby improving information access for Costcutter’s franchisees and field-based colleagues and reducing licensing and infrastructure costs • Guided a large Scrum team using 4-weekly sprints to successful delivery of the on-line systems required to enable Costcutter to effect a major business transformation in June 2014 • Recommended and facilitated a re-structure of Costcutter’s growing delivery capability into smaller, cross-functional, product-focused squads resulting in reduced cycle times and improved quality through increased ownership and empowerment • Championed the drive towards continuous delivery and the introduction of TDD and automated functional testing • Worked with business stakeholders and 3rd parties to devise a strategy to replace the legacy IT-centric, push-based BI systems with a cloud-based solution to provide actionable insight to colleagues anywhere, anytime, on any-device

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experience in the following industries:
Costcutter Supermarkets | Uk | Yorkshire Building Society | Leeds City Council

Francis Barton has the following professional experience:
Sky Betting And Gaming | Costcutter Supermarkets | Uk | Yorkshire Building Society | Leeds City Council