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Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
Toptal member since June 4, 2021
Bio
Abderrahmane is an experienced Agile coach and project manager with over 13 years of experience. He has successfully led large Agile transformations and worked in key strategic projects with multiple organizations ranging from middle-sized businesses to Fortune 500 customers. He has had the opportunity to work in various professional environments, helping him achieve a deep understanding of both Agile and traditional project management methodologies.
Project Highlights
Digital Enterprise
Led the corporate website redesign for Morocco’s leading bank while adding key critical functionalities for hundreds of corporate customers.
Lbanka’lik: First Contact
Launched the first remote account opening solution for Morocco’s leading bank. Successfully led a team of 15 people and managed dependencies with three other teams to deliver the project within four months.
GFI Software
Led four teams of architects and chief architects working across multiple countries to develop four strategic products for GFI Software.
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Project Management
- Design Thinking
- Kanban
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Scrumban
Work Experience
Senior Agile Coach
2019 - 2020
Attijariwafa Bank
- Led the Agile transformation for the digital center with more than 200 people for the leading bank in Morocco by defining and implementing a vision with the top management and a transformation backlog to implement it successfully.
- Coached a team of 15 people and delivered a critical core banking project within four months, allowing the creation of a bank account remotely using electronic signature and facial recognition.
- Coached a team of 12 people and reshaped the digital enterprise website within six months, adding key functionalities in the process such as mass transfer and validation workflow.
- Trained and coached people from all levels of the organization—product managers, program managers, product owners, and developers—on Agile values and principles.
- Championed BDD and helped five product owners split their user stories, write them in Gherkin, and prioritize them by business value.
- Successfully championed Agile by implementing Scrum and Kanban. Coached the Scrum team to ensure continuous improvement and removed impediments to meet its sprint and product goal.
- Interviewed users and conducted design workshops—empathy and journey mapping, story mapping—to define and prioritize the features.
Senior Agile Coach
2018 - 2019
BDSI – BNP Paribas
- Led the Agile transformation by implementing a hybrid model inspired by SAFe and Spotify.
- Implemented a two-day on-site SAfe program increment every quarter involving six African subsidiaries to define the roadmap, assess the risks, and align the product and development teams with high-level business priorities.
- Coached and trained three squads of eight people on Agile values and principles.
- Provided training on writing proper user stories, co-constructed a team charter with the squads, and ensured all Agile rituals were conducted and understood by the squad members, including daily scrum and sprint planning, review, and retrospective.
- Introduced story point estimation and trained the team on how to accurately track velocity for sprints and releases.
- Defined visual management tools and trained the team on how to define and analyze a burndown chart and a cumulative data flow diagram.
Senior Project Manager
2017 - 2018
Nestlé Waters
- Conducted a three-month assessment covering all aspects of the project, including organization, architecture, and code quality, with Nestlé Waters North America's management team.
- Served as the first point of contact with clients to discuss the assessment results and define a change management strategy.
- Led a team of eight members to maintain high-quality delivery.
Software Engineering Manager
2017 - 2017
GFI Software
- Owned four products and managed a globally distributed team of top talents including architects and chief architects.
- Set aggressive goals by quarter and was constantly ranked as a top performer by comparing cross-team results weekly during the span of two quarters.
- Broke specifications created by the product management team into clear tasks and timelines.
- Managed the quarterly budget spent per product and chose the right investment aligned with the product management vision.
- Ensured constant improvement in both code quality metrics and weekly production.
Delivery Manager
2013 - 2017
Saint Gobain
- Accompanied Outiz, a startup and subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, in creating its eCommerce (Hybris) platform from scratch.
- Built a complete omnichannel solution including B2B, B2C, more than ten points of services, and a marketplace hosting 100,000 products.
- Managed more than 20 people and ensured both functional values by removing impediments from the team and technical quality through automated testing and software craftsmanship standards.
- Created Confluence pages to capture project information such as release information, code coverage, and software practices.
- Served as the key point of contact for the customer's product owner; also coached him on how to slice user stories and prioritize the business value.
Scrum Master
2013 - 2013
Chapitre
- Served as a scrum master of an engineering team of eight people.
- Successfully conducted Agile rituals with the team.
- Ensured high standards in delivery through technical excellence.
Project History
Digital Enterprise
https://attijarientreprises.com/frLed the corporate website redesign for Morocco’s leading bank while adding key critical functionalities for hundreds of corporate customers.
I was entrusted to directly coach a team of 12 people and to define and facilitate agile discovery workshops, including vision and story mapping, with top and middle management.
I conducted user research sessions with the UX designer, coached the product owners to have a customer-centric and business value-driven approach, and worked closely with the team to deliver multiple project releases.
I conducted user research sessions with the UX designer, coached the product owners to have a customer-centric and business value-driven approach, and worked closely with the team to deliver multiple project releases.
Lbanka’lik: First Contact
Launched the first remote account opening solution for Morocco’s leading bank. Successfully led a team of 15 people and managed dependencies with three other teams to deliver the project within four months.
I successfully led the critical implementation of the remote account opening solution for Attijariwafa Bank. I defined the MVP approach and releases to deliver, and I conducted workshops with the teams to prioritize functionalities based on business value. I helped the product owner to write their user stories using BDD and facilitated sessions with external service providers to ensure alignment and delivery of key electronic signature functionalities.
GFI Software
Led four teams of architects and chief architects working across multiple countries to develop four strategic products for GFI Software.
I collaborated with the product managers and the team to produce a highly scalable solution that can be installed on-premise or via cloud infrastructure and which can support network configurations of up to 10,000 devices per instance.
Additionally, I maintained cohesion across a multicultural, cross-functional, and global team, and I coordinated the technical communications team, delivered release notes, and published self-help content.
Additionally, I maintained cohesion across a multicultural, cross-functional, and global team, and I coordinated the technical communications team, delivered release notes, and published self-help content.
Education
2003 - 2008
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
National School of Applied Science in Tangier - Tangier
Certifications
APRIL 2018 - PRESENT
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
JANUARY 2018 - JANUARY 2021
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
NOVEMBER 2015 - PRESENT
Hybris Business Analyst
SAP
NOVEMBER 2012 - PRESENT
Oracle Certified Java Programmer
Oracle
Skills
Tools
Jira, SAP Hybris
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Agile, Design Thinking
Platforms
Java EE
Other
Scrumban, Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master, Agile Coaching, Project Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, PMI, Engineering Management, Team Leadership, Agile Program Management, Client Delivery Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Communication, Java, Product Ownership, Project Delivery
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