Agile Coach

ELHADJ BAH

EXPERIENCE * Years

LANGUAGE French, English

PROFILE

• Elhadj Bah is an Intermediate Bilingual Project Manager specializing in delivering IT projects using Agile.

• Elhadj has held long-term positions with Fujitsu Canada (1+ year) and AUSY (2+ years) where he is working as an Agile Coach/Project Manager.

• Elhadj has performed similar work to what your company is requesting at:

Fujitsu Canada: Coached the team to switch from the Waterfall methodology to Agile. Facilitated Scrum meetings, tracked project deliverables using Jira, and prepared business cases for their projects, managed risks

AUSY: Helped with business case development, implemented Agile artifacts, and provided Agile coaching to teams. Facilitated Scrum meetings, removed impediments, managed and adjusted risk backlogs, and tracked progress using Jira, managed communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project 1

Fujitsu Canada Jan 2018 – Present

Agile Coach/Project Manager

Quality System Management ISO 9001, SQ, ERP

Acting as Agile Coach to implement the Agile methodology to teams previously working under the Waterfall methodology and managing development projects as well as the assessment of ERPs.

• Scaling Agile Framework (SAFe), driving Agile Workshops/DevOps, facilitating Scrum meetings

• Coaching and guiding Macroscope/Waterfall practitioners to embrace lean-Agile mindset and principles

• Preparing Project Business cases (Scope, MVP, benefits, risks, cost, ROI, analysis, project feasibly studies)

• Tracked progress of project using Jira

• Helping to identify and model client’s value stream mapping (As-Is, To Be) by using BPMN 2.0

• Participating in strategic discussions to guide and help clients selecting their IT solutions

(ERP tier 1 to 3), one of the solutions being evaluated is SAP

• Facilitating requirements elicitation and helping to prepare the RFI/RFP documentation, Scenarios

Technical Environment: Agile (SAFe, Scrum, XP), Waterfall (PMP, Macroscope), BPMN, Jira Project 2

AUSY Oct 2014 – Dec 2017

Agile Coach/Project Manager

General Data Protection Regulator (GDPR), MIFID 2 (EUREKA), DOCAPOST Managed development projects and service quality improvement projects using the Agile methodology.

• Collaborated in the business case development, implemented agile artifacts, and provided coaching to teams

• Facilitated Scrum meetings, removed impediments, tracked work in progress using Jira, managed and adjusted risks backlog

• Facilitated the project initiation (project charter, story map, epics/stories drafting, affinity estimation)

• Built and forecasted the GDPR release plans including features/stories prioritization and estimation

• Created a communication plan, drove release objectives, budget estimation, and risk mitigation

• Applied root cause analysis technique to help solve recurring problems, and removed impediments

• Engaged stakeholders, managed vendors (Documentum, HRIS), and tracked progress

• Identified value stream mapping and improvement opportunities, facilitated workshop (needs collection) for the MIFID 2 (EUREKA) service quality improvement project

• Ensured the goals, vision, progress and EUREKA project were visible and transparent to all stakeholders

• Collaborated in the validation of the business case, and sent new SWAP reports to customers

(investors)

• Participated in the budget allocation and produced the project’s work breakdown structure

(WBS), RFI/RFP

• Helped to write the business requirement document to acquire new improvement solutions from vendors

• Defined the roadmap, communication plan, coordinated and facilitated the work and Scrum meetings

• Collaborating and developing the MyGreffe vision, breaking down the initiative in features and stories for the DOCAPOST MyGreffe project (web application related to RCS/RSAC/RSEIRL)

• Determined velocities, participated in the budget estimation, scheduled forecasts and risk mitigation

• Facilitated the releases (objectives, prioritized features, risks), drove iterations (goals, stories, scrums)

• Established acceptance criteria, communication plan, groomed the product backlog, and reported progress

• Facilitated workshops and Scrum meetings acting as the proxy between the business and technical teams

Technical Environment: Agile/Scrum, Jira, Documentum, HRIS Project 3

DOCAPOST Mar 2014 – Sep 2014

Project Manager

PBIL

Managed the digital and mobile transformation project, PBIL (secure data exchange of companies’ accounting reports to Banks such as Banque Populaire, Caisse d’Epargne).

• Wrote the scope statement and participated in the development of the project charter

• Defined the project’s work breakdown structure, decomposing WBS in tasks and prioritizing them

• Established a communication plan, managing and prioritizing risks, monitoring project work progress

• Collaborated in the process design and optimization by using UML/BPMN 2.0 and removed impediments

• Conducted and facilitated the user acceptance tests, animating steering committees Technical Environment: UML/BPMN 2.0, MS Project

Experience prior to Mar 2014 available upon request EDUCATION

• PMI ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner), Project Management Institute, 2019

• Leading SAFe / SAFe Agilist, Scaled Agile, 2019

• Product Manager / Owner, Scrum Master certificates, Scaled Agile, 2018

• PMP trained, PMI-Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 2017

• Project Management certificate, AJC Formation, Paris, France, 2017

• Intensive English, ELS, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Ohio (US), 2015

• Master of Business Informatics (MBI), 2014, Sophia Polytech, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, 2011, Sophia Polytech, Sophia, Nice, France

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