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Imane Marouane, Project Manager in Paris, France
Imane Marouane

Project Manager in Paris, France

Member since January 27, 2022
Imane is a resourceful, detail-oriented, and hard-working project manager with over eight years of experience coordinating, collaborating, facilitating, and coaching Scrum teams. She owns 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.
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Project Highlights

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  • Agile Project Manager | Agile Coach

    2021 - PRESENT
    AWB
    • Joined the team as an Agile coach and led the organizational transition towards an Agile at scale framework.
    • Trained the teams–product owners, scrum masters, developers, and more–in understanding and adopting the new agile at scale framework.
    • Coached and facilitated the Agile teams in understanding the 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.
    • Drove acculturation training on agility for C-level executives to adopt the Agile mindset.
    • Managed Jira set up on the bank level and provided training to the 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 Project Manager | Agile Coach

    2019 - 2021
    Societe Generale
    • Progressed to Agile coach after joining the company as a Scrum master consultant.
    • Conducted Agile training and coached the new and existing team members in the Scrum framework, SAFe, DevOps fundamentals, and Design Thinking.
    • Reduced and minimized waste within the existing Agile processes.
    • Guided the teams toward continuous improvement and self-organization.
    • Administrated Jira, defining the needs of the teams in terms of the type of tickets, workflow, and fields. Also, set up workflows, tickets, and dashboards for the different teams and conducted training sessions for consultants.
    • Demonstrated a servant leadership style and led by example.
    • Removed team impediments and monitored key Agile metrics.
    • Coached and mentored multiple Scrum masters and product owners to lead Agile teams within the program.
    • Led and facilitated ongoing program increment (PI) planning sessions.
    • Managed and documented risks and decisions in Confluence, tracked the budget, and communicated in the steering committees.

  • Team Lead | 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 towards 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 IT project manager and scrum master.
    • 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

  • 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 together 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 in 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.

  • Delivering a Critical Application
    Managed and launched a critical internal application for the bank in 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 2000 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.

  • 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).

Education

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration
    2022 - 2022
    London School of Economics and Political Science - London, UK
  • Engineer's Degree in Computer Science
    2009 - 2014
    National School of Applied Sciences - El Jadida, Morocco

Certifications

  • ICAgile Certified Professional — Agile Coaching
    JUNE 2022 - PRESENT
    ICAgile
  • Management 3.0
    NOVEMBER 2021 - PRESENT
    Management 3.0
  • SAFe 5 Agilist
    JUNE 2020 - JUNE 2021
    Scaled Agile
  • Entreprise Design Thinking
    MAY 2020 - PRESENT
    IBM
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
    MAY 2020 - PRESENT
    Scrum.org
  • RPA Business Analyst
    APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
    UiPath
  • EXIN DevOps Foundation
    APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
    Exin
  • ITIL Foundation Certification
    JULY 2017 - PRESENT
    Alexos
  • Scrum Master Accredited Certification
    JULY 2017 - PRESENT
    Scrum Institute

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