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Philippe Paulus

Agile Coach | ASPC, SPC and SAFe® 6.0 Trainer

€1,200/day
Rennes, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Philippe

With over 25 years of experience in project, product, team, and organization management, I support startups, SMEs/SMBs, and large corporations in their agile transformation.

🚀 My expertise: supporting organizations and teams towards greater impact through agile practices.

💡 What I offer:
✅ Organizational Coaching: helping companies overcome their blockages, clarify their operations, and build a framework conducive to autonomous, aligned, and robust teams.
✅ SAFe® Coach: facilitating the GO/No GO workshop for SAFe® with the steering committee, implementing Lean Portfolio Management, participatory budgeting, identifying value streams, setting up ARTs, the LACE team, and training all stakeholders in your SAFe® transformation, coaching all actors/across all roles on your trains.
✅ Team Coaching: strengthening collective cohesion and resilience, streamlining interactions, and embedding solid agile practices for sustainable adaptability.
✅ Launching and supporting agile transformations: initiating, stabilizing, or turning around a process when facing difficulties.
✅ Coaching & supporting key roles: Scrum Masters, Product Owners, RTEs, PMs, STE... so they can fully play their roles and become true pillars of change.
✅ OKR Expert (OKR Master certified): training and support to align strategy and execution while ensuring robust implementation.
✅ SAFe® 6.0 training in French:
🎯 Leading SAFe®
🎯 SAFe® Agile Product Management
🎯 SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management
🎯 SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager
🎯 SAFe® Release Train Engineer
🎯 SAFe® Business Owner

🎤 Speaker: Agile en Seine, Agile Tour Rennes, Nantes, Clermont-Ferrand, Printemps Agile de Caen.

📢 Want to discuss your organizational challenges? Let's talk!

🌍 Founder of transformationagile.com
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Rennes (up to 30km), Paris (up to 30km), Nantes (up to 30km), Saint-Malo (up to 30km)

Experience

  • DGA
    Agile Coach
    DEFENSE AND MILITARY
    January 2023 - March 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
    Rennes, France
    Agile coaching mission within a program structured according to the SAFe framework, involving 120 people across 4 ARTs. The organization needed support to streamline interactions between teams and stakeholders, strengthen agile practices, and improve Product/Architecture strategic alignment.

    Mission Objectives

    Strengthen the collective effectiveness of teams
    Structure agile practices at scale
    Upskill key roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, RTE)
    Align Product & Architecture vision and implement cross-functional governance

    Actions Taken

    Agile Team Coaching
    Coaching teams on agile practices
    Coaching Scrum Masters:
    Advanced facilitation techniques
    Structuring rituals and feedback loops
    Coaching Product Owners and teams:
    Writing acceptance criteria
    Effective breakdown of User Stories
    Clarification of concepts: functional US / technical US / task
    Coaching RTEs (Release Train Engineers):
    Preparation and facilitation of SAFe events (PI Planning, ART Sync, Inspect & Adapt)
    Developing a servant-leader posture
    Support in managing dependencies, risks, and capacity

    Strategic Governance & Product/Architecture Alignment
    Co-creation of the Product & Architecture vision with key roles (Business Owner, PM, System Architect)
    Implementation of cross-functional governance around Epics:
    Alignment with strategic themes and funding
    Cross-ART coordination of roadmaps and arbitration
    Monitoring synchronization and deliveries

    Results Achieved

    Strengthened agile maturity of the teams
    Improved cross-functional collaboration and clarity of decisions
    Better cross-ART coordination and consolidated strategic alignment
    More autonomous key roles aligned with the global vision
    SAFe SPC SAFe Training SAFe® Agile Methodology
  • NICKEL
    Agile Coach and Trainer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    October 2019 - August 2020 (10 months)
    Paris, France
    COMEX awareness.
    Product Owner training.
    Agile organization consulting at scale.
    Team coaching.
    Agile Methodology Scrum Product Management
  • Direction générale de l'armement
    Agile Coach and Trainer
    DEFENSE AND MILITARY
    March 2020 - Today (6 years and 3 months)
    Rennes, France
    Training and coaching several product teams in the implementation of Scrum and Kanban.
    Work on the vision and backlog of each product.
    Implementation of a continuous improvement approach.
    Agile Methodology Scrum Kanban Continuous Improvement

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