Imane Marouane
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Paris, France
Toptal member since January 27, 2022
Imane is a resourceful, detail-oriented, and hard-working project manager/scrum master with 10+ years of experience coordinating, collaborating, facilitating, and coaching Scrum teams. She has various certifications, including SAFe 5 Agilist, Management 3.0, Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owner I, DevOps, ITIL Foundation, and IBM Design Thinking. Proactive, with an IT background, leadership style, and an agile mindset, Imane is a skilled professional eager to tackle new challenges.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Agile Coach | Scrum Master
AWB
- Joined the team as an agile coach and delivery manager and led the organizational transition towards a Scaled Agile framework.
- Trained the teams, including product owners, scrum masters, developers, and more, in understanding and adopting the new Scaled Agile framework.
- Coached and facilitated Agile teams to understand Agile values and practices to be solution-focused.
- Managed the discovery phase of an e-banking app, organized discovery workshops, and conducted user interviews while documenting the outcomes.
- Provided proactive visibility and effectively communicated delivery targets, commitments, and progress.
- Took accountability for service delivery performance, meeting customer expectations, and driving future demand.
- Identified impediments early, actively working to resolve them.
- Managed a Jira setup on the bank level and provided training to Jira's project administrators and final users.
- Applied Management 3.0 practices to achieve goals more efficiently, including the personal map, moving motivators, feedback, team happiness, and more.
- Implemented visual management tools like dashboards, Kanban, roadmaps, and more.
Jira and Confluence Expert
Genesco - Main
- Configured a new Jira and Confluence cloud for the company to suit the new company organization.
- Migrated the whole data from on-premise Jira and Confluence to the cloud.
- Provided training on Jira and Confluence to the company.
- Worked through the interdependencies of workflows and reflected on how business works to set up all different workflows, rules automation, dashboards, and more. Finally, I migrated all data from on-premise Jira and Confluence to the cloud.
- Integrated and configured multiple plugins such as Tempo for time tracking.
Agile Coach | Scrum Master
Societe Generale
- Conducted Agile training and coached the new and existing team members in the Scrum framework, SAFe, DevOps fundamentals, and design thinking.
- Supported the product owner and facilitated intra-team dynamics in relation to priorities and scopes.
- Guided the teams toward continuous improvement and self-organization.
- Managed and documented risks and decisions in Confluence, tracked the budget, and communicated with the steering committees.
- Administrated Jira, defining the needs of the teams in terms of the type of tickets, workflow, and fields. Set up workflows, tickets, and dashboards for the different teams and conducted training sessions for consultants.
- Removed team impediments and monitored key Agile metrics.
- Coached and mentored multiple scrum masters and product owners to lead Agile teams within the program.
- Demonstrated a servant leadership style and led by example.
- Led and facilitated ongoing program increment (PI) planning sessions.
Scrum Master
AMZ Group
- Conducted agile training and coaching for the whole company and led Scrum framework implementation.
- Coached the product owner in creating and maintaining the product backlog.
- Created an environment where teams continuously learn from the past while being engaged and motivated toward a common goal.
- Collaborated with the product owner, business stakeholders, and delivery team to understand the business needs and identify the appropriate solutions.
- Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies and helped the teams solve problems rather than provide solutions.
- Coached C-level executives on Agile implementations—Scrum and Kanban.
IT Engineer | Scrum Master
GlobRes
- Joined the company as an IT developer and progressed to the IT project manager and scrum master role.
- Developed IT tools to facilitate the account manager's tasks.
- Organized and facilitated sprint ceremonies as part of my role.
- Supported the product owner in the creation and maintenance of the product backlog.
- Implemented visual management tools like dashboards, Kanban, roadmaps, and more.
Project History
Delivering a Critical Application
Managed and launched a critical internal application for the bank on a very tight schedule.
• Conducted the training sessions for final users for all business units of Société Générale Bank around the world (more than 2,000 participants).
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies—sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refining—and monitored the project progress and roadmap.
• Led and facilitated ongoing Program Increment (PI) Planning sessions to synchronize the work with the other Agile Release Trainers (ART) in the program.
• Managed delivery and implemented and monitored KPIs.
• Facilitated steering committees.
• After delivering the MVP, I helped the team achieve a biweekly deployment window.
Organizational Agile at Scale Transformation
Implemented an in-house agile at scale framework that fitted the bank's needs and context.
• Coached an entire organization to successfully apply Scrum, from C-level executives to product owners, developers, UX designers, and more.
• Reduced and minimized the teams' waste while improving their performance by a 60% of velocity increase.
• Worked closely with testing and the DevSecOps teams to robust automated tests and smooth deployments, performing a biweekly deployment after each sprint.
• Reported to the program manager and high-level stakeholders.
Scrum Transition
Set up the scrum framework, coached teams, and managed IT projects using the Agile methodology within the company's IT department.
• Set up ticketing tools for traceability, workflow, planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Together with the team, we reduced the company's previous time to market by 40% and increased the net promoter score (NPS).
Agile Consultation | Jira Confluence Expertise
Configured a new Jira and Confluence cloud for the company to suit the new company organization and migrated the whole data from on-premise Jira and Confluence to the cloud.
Education
MBA Essentials in Business Administration
London School of Economics and Political Science - London, UK
Engineer's Degree in Computer Science
National School of Applied Sciences - El Jadida, Morocco
Certifications
Alteryx Designer Advanced
Alteryx
Alteryx Designer Core
Alteryx
ICAgile Certified Professional — Agile Coaching
ICAgile
Management 3.0
Management 3.0
SAFe 5 Agilist
Scaled Agile
Entreprise Design Thinking
IBM
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
RPA Business Analyst
UiPath
EXIN DevOps Foundation
Exin
ITIL Foundation Certification
Alexos
Scrum Master Accredited Certification
Scrum Institute
Skills
Tools
Jira, Trello, Slack, Confluence, NetSuite, Figma, InVision, Miro, Zoom, Atlassian, Oracle ERP, Pivotal Tracker
Paradigms
Agile, DevOps, Management, Scrum, Change Management, Implementation Project Management, Agile Project Management, Agile Leadership, Kanban, Agile Product Management, Requirements Analysis, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Agile Software Development, Design Thinking, Azure DevOps, Microservices, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Platforms
iOS, Android, WordPress, Microsoft Dynamics 365
Other
Microsoft Teams, Scrum Master, Scrum Coaching, Scrum Product Owner, Management 3.0, ITIL V3 Foundation Certified, Agile Coaching, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), IT, Jira Administration, Project Management, CRM Systems, Mobile Banking, Finance, Investment Banking Technology, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), MVP Design, Story Mapping, Storytelling, Product Vision, Value Stream Mapping, Product Discovery, Estimation & Planning, Product Delivery, PI Planning, Retrospective Techniques, Sprint Retrospectives, Product Roadmaps, Roadmaps, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Quality Assurance (QA), Opportunity Assessments, Design Sprints, Reporting, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Product Owner, Feature Backlog Prioritization, User Stories, Sprint Ceremonies, SaaS, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Analysis, Portfolio Management, Training, Release Management, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Project Planning, Program Management, Product Ownership, Project Estimation, Product Management, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation, Risk Management, Business Strategy, Web Project Management, IT Project Management, Planning, Project Tracking, Agile Sprints, Digital Project Management, Team Leadership, Dashboards, Discovery Workshops, Project Timelines, User Experience (UX), Agile Product Delivery, Agile Program Management, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Business Administration, Team Mentoring, Online Banking, Agile DevOps, Gherkin, Technical Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Product Development, Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C), Client Delivery Management, Project Delivery, Hybrid Project Management, Business Analysis, Jira Administrator, Websites, Project Reporting, Software Integration, Agile Transformation, IT Projects, Sprint Planning, Workshops, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), PHP, Java, Spotify, DevSecOps, Mobile, Software Development, Web, Lean Startups, Project Management Professional (PMP), Startups, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Mining, Web Development, Website CMS, Web Marketing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Financial Risk Management, Core Banking Systems, Automation, QA Automation, Data Migration, Integration, eCommerce, Marketing, Technical Program Management, POS, Human Resources (HR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning
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