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Christophe Akichi

Senior Product Owner / CPO / Project Manager MOA

€700/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Christophe

I have over 10 years of experience in IT project management, acquired within large groups and startups, in an international context.

My missions have focused on:

- Product Development Team Management (PO + development teams)

- Scoping / Discovery: Gathering user needs, Developing user flows, use cases, wireframes, and mockups (in collaboration with the UX/UI designers team) for the development of a core product (MVP), defining story mapping, user testing to validate the core product

- Backlog Management: Prioritization and writing of user stories

- Preparation and Conduct of sprint planning

- Support for development and UX/UI teams

- Acceptance testing: Designing test plans and managing test teams

- Conducting product demos and change management

- Budget monitoring

- Recruitment management


The technical environments in which I have worked include frontend (Angular.JS) and backend (JAVA) technologies.

Beyond SCRUM and Kanban methodologies, I have worked with agile coaches who have helped me develop my knowledge of methodologies.

My skills include:

- Methodology: Agile Scrum, Brainstorming

- Workshops: Brainstorming, Functional Testing, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Product Backlog Grooming

- Design: Gathering and analyzing functional requirements, writing and prioritizing the product backlog, supporting the UX/UI team in designing Wireframes and Mockups, writing and estimating User Stories, Designing and validating Functional Tests for Go Live.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ENEDIS (Ex ERDF)
    PRODUCT TEAM MANAGER
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    October 2022 - August 2023 (11 months)
    Paris, France
    Context

    As part of the reorganization of the product department of the SCC (Communicating Channels Services) department, the mission was to manage the digital product development service composed of 2 agile scrum development teams (one team of 2 POs, a functional expert, a data scientist, and 5 developers; a second team of 2 POs and 8 developers).

    Tasks performed

    Act as the managerial relay for the department director at the technical-functional and organizational levels, as well as for strategy and product vision with the teams.

    Support (by being proactive) product managers (domain managers) and development teams in product design (technical-functional scoping workshops, definition of the target solution, sizing the product team, analyzing risks) with cross-functional stakeholders.

    Participate in workshops for inter-prioritization of projects by value and team capacity.

    Manage team workload in line with the annual budget, taking into account the product roadmap and budget forecasts due to project lifecycles.

    Handle HR issues and recruitment with ESNs and team turnover to ensure project-resource alignment.

    Estimate new products.

    Act as a facilitator in decision-making / arbitration of blocking points within the department's steering committees.

    Ensure product delivery by monitoring progress and deadlines.

    Ensure the quality of deliverables produced by the teams) through functional and technical quality KPIs.

    Manage teams in agile scrum, ensuring the smooth running of the product development cycle.

    Support the team in agile ceremonies (facilitating retrospectives).
    AGILE METHODOLOGY Scrum master Kanban IT Recruitment Project management Budget management Product development Microservices Architecture
  • HEROW
    PRODUCT OWNER
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    February 2017 - December 2020 (3 years and 11 months)
    Paris, France
    Software product management (geolocation and data management platform):
    - Product management (Brainstorming, Market watch, Storymap, MVP, Roadmap)
    - Backlog management and agile ceremonies management
    - Support for technical and UX/UI teams
    - Writing test plans and managing functional acceptance testing

    Environment: geolocation, mobility, agile methodology (Scrum)
  • RELAYMARK
    CPO
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    November 2015 - January 2017 (1 year and 2 months)
    Paris, France
    Product management in an agile context:

    - Definition of product vision
    - Management of "Discovery" (Brainstorming with the sales director and CTO, storymap, MVP, roadmap)
    - Product backlog management, writing and prioritizing user stories
    - Support for technical teams and UX/UI designers
    - Facilitating product progress meetings and steering committee meetings
    - Support in writing product sheets

    Environment: Mobility, e-commerce, CRM, API, Social commerce, omnichannel

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Education

  • Specialized Master in Technology and Management
    Ecole Centrale Paris
    2009
    Acquisition d'une double compétence managériale et technique : - Management du SI - gestion de projets et conduite du changement - Technologies Web - Management de l’innovation
  • Master in Marketing
    Groupe INSTEC (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
    2006
    Acquisition de compétences en marketing et en communication : - Etude de marché - Stratégie de Marketing et de communication - Gestion de la marque - Trade Marketing - CRM

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