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Independent consultant · Solopreneur

Hi, I'm Lars Barkman.

I help enterprises design, build, and operate digital solutions consistently — through a structured lifecycle model, supported by services and tooling that turn ad-hoc delivery into a repeatable process.

I’m developing a model — a fully defined lifecycle specification covering how solutions get classified, designed, built, operated, and eventually decommissioned.

I’m consulting with organizations to put the model to work — adopting its roles, establishing governance, and applying its design process to real solutions.

I’m also developing tooling that makes it operational — progressively automating lifecycle activities as AI capabilities evolve, so human roles can focus on judgment rather than execution.

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Writings

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Notes on organizations, technology, and the craft of building digital solutions — from tactical detail to strategic perspective.

Jul 8, 2026solopreneurship
Choosing My Licenses
The previous post laid out why licensing matters for a solopreneur working in the open. This one is the decision: AGPL v3 for the code, CC Attribution-NonCommercial for the writing — and the reasoning behind each choice.
Jul 8, 2026solopreneurship
Open Source as a Solopreneur
Can you give everything away and still build something financially sustainable? This post works through the distinction between open source code and Creative Commons writing, maps the available monetization models, and reasons through why open core falls short, and why consultancy alone is not enough — and what a workable alternative might look like.
Jul 8, 2026enterprise-design
Positions, Roles, and Capabilities
Position, role, and capability are not synonyms — each belongs to a different owner and fails in a different way when misread. This post defines the three, maps how they interact, and identifies three distinct gaps that emerge when they fall out of alignment: a compensation problem, an enterprise delivery problem, and a personal one that only the individual can resolve.

Consulting

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Two consulting engagements for the Digital Solution Lifecycle Model — one that builds adoption capability, one that delivers a solution design.

Model Adoption
I help organizations adopt the Digital Solution Lifecycle Model — mapping its seven defined roles to the actual team structure and building the internal capability to run the lifecycle without ongoing external support. Structure and people, in sequence: design the org around the model, then equip the people who hold its roles.
Model-Based Solution Design
Hands-on implementation of the Digital Solution Lifecycle Model for specific solutions — classifying requirements, applying patterns, designing architectures, and producing the deliverables that make knowledge durable. Independent, vendor-neutral design work grounded in a structured model rather than individual methodology.

Ventures

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Two ventures that form the foundation — a lifecycle model that defines how digital solutions get managed, and tooling that makes it operational.

Digital Solution Lifecycle Model
An opinionated engineering model for digital solution lifecycle management — classification tiers, phases, processes, activities, roles, patterns, and deliverables that together make lifecycle management a system rather than a craft. Human-guided, machine-executed, and designed to co-evolve with the organizations that adopt it.
Digital Solution Lifecycle Tooling
Unix-philosophy tooling that augments and progressively automates eight roles currently held by humans — from Project Manager to Operator — freeing people for the creative judgment machines cannot replace. Built on the Digital Solution Lifecycle Model, connected through a Project Manager the business will eventually run for itself.

© 2026 • Lars Barkman