Roger Leaton

Current

Agile Advocate at BT

Past

Agile Solution Consultant at BT
Solution Designer at BT
Developer/Analyst/Project Manager at Metier Management Systems

Software Developer at Wootton Jeffries

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Education

Lancaster University
University of East Anglia

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Roger Leaton’s Summary

Bringing the Agile message to varied audiences via public and private presentations.
Also through written articles.

Most recent: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/04/02/230111/how-to-be-big-but-agile.htm

Roger Leaton’s Specialties:

Agile Development and Delivery by teams, software and non-software.

Roger Leaton’s Experience

Agile Advocate

BT

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

Agile Advocate encouraging the adoption of agile principles within the business. Initial focus on the IT organisation and now extending to the wider business including the relationships with customers.

BT has 104,000 employees so this is probably the largest Agile Transformation ever. The IT organisation is only 14,000 of which 6,000 are in India so we are also working on Agile Offshore.
Agile Solution Consultant

BT

(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)

January 1999 — March 2005 (6 years 3 months)

Using DSDM to construct and deliver a tool called Ripple to support rapid product launch in low volumes. Replaced ad hoc collections of spreadsheets and databases. Record for launching a product into Live with Ripple was two days. Very popular with the Product Managers and Operations teams.
Solution Designer

BT

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 9 months)
Developer/Analyst/Project Manager

Metier Management Systems

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1980 — October 1993 (13 years 3 months)

Performing all the usual software roles from Business Analysis, Requirements, Design, Development, Testing and Support as well as Project Management of the teams. Typical multi-functional role for a small company where you do all the things that have to be done.
Software Developer

Wootton Jeffries

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

September 1978 — August 1980 (2 years )

Analyst & Programmer in a small team writing software for transport consultancy.

Roger Leaton’s Education

Lancaster University

Plant Ecology 1976 — 1978

Activities and Societies:

Friends of the Earth
University of East Anglia

BSc Hons , Biological Sciences , 1973 — 1976

Activities and Societies:

Friends of the Earth