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Senior Agile Coach | Release Train Engineer (RTE) | IT Project & Program Director

Paris, France
France
MASTER in Information Systems Architecture
Paris, France
France
MASTER in Information Systems Architecture

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CV Philippe Briere - Coach agile senior - RTE -DP.pdf

About me

I help leaders and teams navigate complexity, align priorities and deliver results that last. A former French Navy officer, IT program director and senior Agile coach, I combine structured delivery, systems thinking and a people-centred approach to transformation.

Agile MethodologyAgile ModelingAgile TestingAtlassian ConfluenceAtlassian JiraChange ManagementDisciplined Agile DeliveryProduct ManagementScrum MethodologyProgram ManagementTransition ManagementScaled Agile FrameworkStakeholder EngagementStakeholder ManagementIT Project Management
Senior transformation and delivery professional with extensive experience in complex IT environments, combining program management, scaled Agile coaching, organisational development and cross-functional leadership.
Core expertise
• Scaled Agile & SAFe: PI Planning preparation and facilitation, ART coordination, feature prioritisation, dependency management, delivery synchronisation, continuous improvement and coaching of RTEs, Product Managers, Product Owners and leadership teams.
• IT Project & Program Management: project framing, governance, planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment, resource coordination, reporting, quality, cost and schedule control.
• Organisational Transformation: diagnosing organisational obstacles, clarifying responsibilities and decision-making, connecting business and IT teams, improving operating models and strengthening team autonomy.
• Product & Delivery: backlog structuring, Features, acceptance criteria, roadmaps, visual management, cross-team delivery coordination and hybrid project approaches.
• Leadership & Facilitation: executive coaching, management team alignment, large-scale workshops, training, mentoring and conflict resolution.
Selected achievements
Orange France, Mobile Core Network: Supported a strategic transformation program involving approximately 250 people. Helped establish the first SAFe PI Planning within three weeks, involving 17 teams. Coached program leadership, RTE and Product Owners. Contributed to achieving a regular delivery cadence and meeting a critical production deadline ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Orange France, Cybersecurity SOC: Coached the leadership team, clarified strategic priorities and strengthened cross-functional cooperation, with organisational improvements sustained beyond a leadership transition.
Pluxee International: Supported the transformation of Product Engineering involving approximately 200 people. Coached Product roles and redesigned the Miro environment for PI Planning and cross-domain collaboration.
La Poste: Coordinated deliveries across 17 teams, facilitated large-scale planning events and developed practical training on feature definition.
Earlier experience: IT program management in the French Navy, including a €100M long-term program and coordination with defence industry partners; business unit leadership, engineering management and complex IT engagements.
Methods & tools
SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, hybrid project management, Jira, Jira Structure, Confluence, Miro and Klaxoon.
Generative AI
Advanced practical use of leading generative AI models for research, analysis, knowledge structuring, collaborative writing and management-related work. Currently co-authoring a management book using AI-assisted workflows.
Approach
I focus on making complex situations understandable, connecting people and disciplines, improving decision-making and enablin

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2017

Languages

EnglishFluentFrenchNative speaker

Project history

Agile Coach

CNP ASSURANCE
* Mission : Initiate and coach Aglile@Scale transformation with SAFe®
Initial IT and business leaders trainingn, impulsing the initiative, recruiting, mentoring and
coaching one
* SAFe® Trainings SA, POPM, SASM
* Ad-hoc workshops to rebuild and prioritizse features backlog plus drafting a PI plan
* Recruiting, mentoring and coaching of RTE
* SAFe® maturity assessment (Team & Program) + change backlog/roadmap

Agile Coach

EDF
* Mission : Support Agile SAFe® transformation
Framed in a Agile/Digital transformation initiative, we launch one Agile Release train decdicated to
a PLM tooling system for electric production plants. I lead the mission in a complex situation.
Cycles de sensibilisation à l'agilité
* Restart building the backlog a collaborative way
* SAFe® executive workshops
* Close coaching of the leaders team (organized as an Agile Scrum team)
* Leading SAFe® and SAFe® for ART training
* As RTE : coordination of build and design teams, facilitation of I&A and PI Planning events
* Recruiting, mentoring & coaching of RTE (external)
Cooperation of stakeholders restarted and feature delivery optimized. DevOps initiative launched.
Operational managers adoption of Agile mindset enough to get interest from top management.

Agile SAFe® Coach

FRENCH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
* Mission : Reboot Agile SAFe® Transformation Initiative
450 people HR system development program spreading accross around 10 locations. Close ministry
monitoring following several major budget and time slipages. Rapid situation evaluation : lots of
gaps between basics and reality (mindset, values, principles, rituals, roles, ...). I set up the
basement for a LACE (Lean/Agile Center of Excellence) so that we can refocus, dynamize and
coordinate actions of aroun 1à existing Agile coachs.
* Mission audit and framing
* Achieving the enthusiastic support of the coaching team
* Launching LACE backlog grooming

Agile Coach (Scrum)

ONLINE BANK
* Mission : Support Agile transformation - Restart business/It collaboration
IT is stuck between tech debt, lack of method, disengaged teams and low trudt from business. We act
as a duo of coach to set up Scrum and impulse Agile.
* Agile practices training
* Individual and collective coaching
* Facilitation of Agile rituals
* Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen
* Coaching of business stakeholders on backlog building and Agile specification
* Priority management support on business needs in a complicated environment
* Agile management training for IT
Business needs get fullfiled again and dev teams motivation at much higher level. Technical debt
reduction engaged as well as technical innovation.

Agile coach and trainer (Scrum, Kanban)

MHIS - AGILE TRAINING & COACHING
* Mission : Scrum/Kanban training & coaching
IT managers Agile training followed by a series of on-demand interventions to facilitate Agile
practices adoption in a cost-driven context.
Structural balance restaured for a software maintenance team (kanban approach initiated and
ressource allocation modfied in accordance with real work).

Change Manager and Organization Coach

PALO IT
* Mission : Boost employee engagement
To accompany Palo IT's growth ambition, the board wants to foster employee engagement and reduce
turnover.
Proposition and leading of a worldwide Appreciative Inquiry process.
* Intrapreneurship and internal promotion of the project
* Animation of arount 15 workshop and interviews
* Failitation of seminars (4à to 80 people)
* Coaching of the company's founder
Emergence of a dozen of structuring projects.

Agile Coach & Product Owner

AXA GS
* Mission : Support the team and ensure success of the functional part of this DevOps initiative
Framed in a digital transformation initiative, « API Acceleration » program aimps to accelerate the
deployment MyAxa application in Asia. As a coach, I support the french team in a tensed context, to
restaure balance. As proxy-PO on « DevOps Booster », which builds and support an OpenShift platform
in, deliver rapidly a first live version is at stake. So I manage to structure business needs
formalization, and coach remote and spread team (France, Singapore, Honkong, India). The platform is
set up 2 weeks before due date on a 2 month planning. Project is on due date for a deployment in
september.
* Team and collective coaching
* Gamestorming and Agile rituals facilitation in multicultural and remote context
* Agile mentoring (Scrum & Kanban)
* PO mentoring and support to frame business needs
* Proxy-Product Ownership

Innovation Games facilitator and trainer

MHIS - PROVIDERS PORTAL SPECIFICATION
* Mission : Information gathering to build Agile Specification workbook
Providers portal aims to support/build providers loyalty. What is at stake is on-tiume high
quality raw products to accompany Moët-Hennessy's growth.The mission aims to train IT & business
on Agile and get an Agile specification workbook ready forISV call for tenderFormation de
sensibilisation à l'agilité pour les directeurs métier (Scrum)
* « Innovation Games » wokshops facilitation to align business and collect/formaliz business
needs
* Support on writing and structuring functionnal part of the call for tender

Project Director, facilitator, Systems Analyst

INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle)
* Project : INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) - Agile framing Business
Backoffice
In parallel, from July 2014 to July 2015
* Role : Project Director, facilitator, Systems Analyst
* Mission : Build and sell a system-wide solution
* Bid : Reform of the securities management back office (competitive dialogue, € 4M)
For a reform Project, animation of a high-level solution and bid team. The challenge of the overhaul
is to replace an obsolete existing with a progicialized and evolutive tool in order to optimize the
activity of the INPI agents, thus allowing them to focus on value-added tasks.
* Project diraction and steering of a first line partner under high
* Facitilitation of technical-functional collaborative workshops in Agile mode
* Leading collaborative preparation and real time animation of time-constrained meetings to
promote the solution
* Building and estimating the product backlog
* Structuration of the Project for Agile delivery
* Project : CSA (Conseil National de l'Audiovisuel) - Agile framing Business Backoffice
In parallel, from Juanury to July 2014
* Role : Project Director, Facilitator, Systems Analyst
* Mission : Build and sell a system-wide solution
* Bid : Fequency coordination back-office overhaul (€ 800 K)
This overhaul project have failed twice before we take it over. Scope is extremely rich and
technical debt is at peek levels. Al this leads to very high stakes for CSA, since this tool is core
to their daily activities. I lead the bid team.
* Project direction and building of a commercial and technical partnership
* Systems architecture elaboration, including innovative solutions, with a technical architect
* Facitilitation of technical-functional collaborative workshops in Agile mode
* Animation of solution-promotion meetings
* Building and estimating the product backlog
* Structuration of the Project for Agile delivery

Manager-coach

JOUVE
* Mission : Consultants team animation
For presales activity dedicated to agile opensource-based web projects, animation of a 1à persons
consultant teams in manager-coach mode.
* Bid management
* Good practices management
* Building and updating an Agile development offer
* Setting up Agile practices on bid management (slicing, iterations, retrospective,
transparency, pairing, ...)
* HR team management

Project Manager

SMILE - WEB PROJECT DESIGN
* Mission : Web project technical and functional framing
* Setting up the first Agile development offers of the company
* Animation of solution-promotion meetings
* Building and estimating the product backlog
* Structuration of the Project for Agile delivery

* Framing customers :
* Conseil général de Loire Atlantique : overhaul of a whole digital working environment (€ 1M)
* Europcar : global customer website reform
* APEC : editorial webcontent solution overhaul
* Ministère de la culture et de la communication : new national intranet portal
* Ville de Niort : intranet portal creation
* Fongecif Ile-de-France : setting up a BPM and DMS system
* AG2R La Mondiale : online inurance shopping portal
* Eovi Mutuelles : multitite fusion project
* Union Bancaire Privée (Swizerland) : group intranet portal
* Carrefour Banque : account management web customer front
* Clients conseil :
* Saint-Gobain : opensource software expertise and support for choosing new group intranet tool
* ASIP Santé : business needs gathering, DMS expertise and sopport for choosing a KM solution
* Ordre National des Pharmaciens : panorama of opensource portal solutions, support for framing
the new unified portal project
* Laboratoires Pierre Favre : Opensource state-of-the-art panorama,search engines, DMS, portals
* BNP Paribas : DMS complex architecture audit
* Ecole Supérieure Telecom Paris : portal project reframing
* Furet.com 2009 (trois mois) : high traffic eCommerce website project reframing and
stabilization, project manager coaching

BUSINESS-UNIT MANAGER

LINAGORA/MINEFI
* Mission : Develop applicative opensource insurance offer
* Hiring, coachind and loyalty-building of around 10 people expert team, endeavoured to
in-service support of more than 150 opensource sofware products.
* Collaborative capitalization of emergent operational practices that I then use as a basis for
generic commercial service offer
* Project direction and restoration of some very badly headed projects
* Coaching of project managers whose project are in critical situations
* Team animation with ritual meetings, retrospectives, decision-making decentralization, kaizen
Results : SLA respect, from € 1M with 1 customer to € 2M/year with around 20 customers. Turnover
zero.

PROGRAM MANAGER

FRENCH NAVY
* Mission : Major operational program steering in massive transverse mode
* Facilitation and collaborative animation of business needs writing workshops
* Functional requirements
* Massively transverse coodination
* Multidisciplinary national workgroups building and animation
* Budget steering

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