David Jarrett

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ABOUT DAVID JARRETT

A successful and highly experienced, hands-on manager of IT application and business change projects and programs (as Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, or Portfolio Manager), particularly for cross-departmental, e-commerce, mobile, retail, digital, system integration, migration, business process change, commercial launch and rebranding projects. David is passionate about delivering business benefits and outcomes through pragmatism, hybrid approaches and common sense. He has delivered hands-on using all the major PM methods (agile, Scrum, DevOps, iterative, hybrid, waterfall, fit-gap, and Prince 2). David proactively manages complex projects and programmes with senior stakeholders to successful outcomes.David has successfully delivered complex IT projects & programmes across industries (retail, sport, media, travel, telecoms, gaming, oil, and banking) for a variety of blue chip and SME companies. He is equally happy in contract and interim roles.David actively seeks fresh challenges and is open to interesting opportunities in transformation, e-commerce, digital, cloud and business change in London / South East and abroad (US or Europe).David has fulfilled senior IT leadership roles with permanent and consulting briefs typically for multi-million pound projects and change initiatives with standing teams or vendors. By style David pulls together business and IT teams to deliver common goals in a calm and professional manner.Specialties: Hands-on project, programme and portfolio leadership; e-commerce, digital, retail, media, sport, and travel; lead to order to cash & delivery; business process and operational change implementation; project rescue and recovery.David believes that a focus on outcomes & quality are the most important delivery factors and are driven by people. Agile methods need focus on complexity (design), change control, and quality control (testing and refactoring); iterative processes need clear stage objectives; and waterfall delivery needs regular velocity checks, delivery phasing & collaborative design / development. Wherever possible, prototyping, proof of concepts, iterative delivery, and spikes add value by mitigating against expensive mistakes by helping to achieve tangible alignment of delivery outcomes.