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Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Location
Paris, France
Toptal Member Since
January 27, 2022
Imane is a resourceful, detail-oriented, and hard-working project manager/scrum master with 8+ 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
Delivering a Critical Application
Managed and launched a critical internal application for the bank on a very tight schedule.
Organizational Agile at Scale Transformation
Implemented an in-house agile at scale framework that fitted the bank's needs and context.
Scrum Transition
Set up the scrum framework, coached teams, and managed IT projects using the Agile methodology within the company's IT department.
Expertise
Work Experience
Agile Coach | Scrum Master
2021 - PRESENT
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.
Agile Coach | Scrum Master
2019 - 2021
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
2017 - 2019
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
2014 - 2017
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.
• Managed around 20 team members geographically distributed between Paris and Bangalore, India, in developing and launching the planned deliveries on time with the highest quality possible.
• 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.
• 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.
• Led a +300 people team with the agile at scale transformation by establishing and monitoring a transformation roadmap while working with other agile coaches.
• 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.
• 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.
• I was in charge of migrating all the teams, more than 40, from the V-cycle to the Agile framework keeping the projects under development in progress while ensuring that all Agile practices were respected, including daily meetings, planning meetings, and sprint and retro reviews.
• 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).
• 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.
I provided training on Jira and Confluence to the company. Also, I 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.
Education
2022 - 2022
MBA Essentials in Business Administration
London School of Economics and Political Science - London, UK
2009 - 2014
Engineer's Degree in Computer Science
National School of Applied Sciences - El Jadida, Morocco
Certifications
JULY 2023 - PRESENT
Alteryx Designer Core
Alteryx
JUNE 2022 - PRESENT
ICAgile Certified Professional — Agile Coaching
ICAgile
NOVEMBER 2021 - PRESENT
Management 3.0
Management 3.0
JUNE 2020 - JUNE 2021
SAFe 5 Agilist
Scaled Agile
MAY 2020 - PRESENT
Entreprise Design Thinking
IBM
MAY 2020 - PRESENT
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
RPA Business Analyst
UiPath
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
EXIN DevOps Foundation
Exin
JULY 2017 - PRESENT
ITIL Foundation Certification
Alexos
JULY 2017 - PRESENT
Scrum Master Accredited Certification
Scrum Institute