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Sylvie Michon

Proxy PO• RTE- Coach Lean/Agile-Software Quality

€900/day
Toulouse, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Sylvie

Value Proposition - Experienced Freelance Lean-Agile Coach

Summary
SAFe SPC and Lean Black Belt certified Lean-Agile Coach, I have been supporting organizational transformations at scale for over 15 years in banking, IT, industry, and the public sector. My interventions cover the structuring of ARTs, multi-level support (PO, SM, RTE), PI Planning facilitation, and agile community animation, with strong Lean expertise (Kaizen, PDCA, A3 Thinking, Gemba Walk).

🎯 Latest results: • Thales: –16% cycle time on the VM process, collaborative TOM between RUN, Build, and business • EDF: adoption of Nexus and DevOps practices, multi-profile coaching • SQLI: multi-company agile transformation, mentoring of facilitators and RTEs

🔧 Tools: Jira · Confluence · Tempo · Miro · Klaxoon · ServiceNow

📍 Key Skills
• Certifications: Lean Black Belt, Safe Program Consultant (SPC), Scrum Master (PSM1), Product Owner (PSPO), ITIL, Prince2.
• Soft Skills: Pedagogical, pragmatic, integrity, curiosity, patience.
• Technical Skills: Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Confluence, Klaxoon, MIRO, CI/CD.

📍 Toulouse – immediately available 💸 Indicative daily rate: between €700 and €900/day, depending on the type of mission, its duration, and its level of commitment (occasional coaching, ART structuring, strategic or operational support)

Client Testimonials
> "Thanks to her expertise, we were able to reduce our development cycle by 20%. Her pragmatic and human approach is a real asset." - Client at Thales

> "An exceptional coach who transformed our organization in record time." - Client at EDF

See you soon for our next collaboration! Full-time or part-time!
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Toulouse (up to 10km), Paris (up to 10km)

Experience

  • THALES - COACH LEAN-AGILE FREELANCE
    Lean-Agile Coach
    May 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)
    • Active contribution to Lean-Agile communities and team upskilling. Active support for agile teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and facilitators.

    Global impact
    ◦ Smooth adoption of new organizational structures
    ◦ Harmonization of Agile and Lean practices, facilitating continuous improvement
    ◦ Structuring value streams and team upskilling
    ◦ Development of a short, medium, and long-term deployment roadmap to ensure transformation success
    ◦ Project management of the transformation mission: planning, reporting, governance, implementation in JIRA
  • EDF
    Agile Coach / RTE
    January 2018 - January 2022 (4 years)
    Support for the project team in redesigning the eCS-candidature, intended for all EDF group employees. The objective was to meet the requirements of the sponsors (Group HR, IRP, DSIT) by freeing ourselves from the constraints imposed by publisher solutions, in favor of modern open-source technologies.
    • Personalized Agile Coaching: Individual and group sessions for a PM, Managers, POs, and SMs, with a focus on key ceremonies (20 participants from business and IT)
    • Training and practical workshops: Leading training on Agile fundamentals, best practices, and ceremonies, to ensure rapid and effective skill development
    Impact
    • Notable improvement in internal Agile processes
    • Strengthened adoption of collaborative tools such as JIRA and Confluence, contributing to better team synergy
  • GROUPE SQLI – 2000 COLLABORATEURS – CONSULTING
    AGILE CONSULTANT / METHODOLOGIST BANKING ENVIRONMENT
    January 2007 - January 2018 (11 years)
    • Launch and support of the first IT train comprising 5 agile teams, from governance to scale (SAFE) as part of the IT transformation program at BSC
    Impact: Successful adoption of the SAFE framework and improved coordination between agile teams and implementation of the "Finance" portfolio and training engineering for the migration to Planisware PARIBAS (Cardif, Asset Management)
    • Player in the "Go to agile – Go to product" transformation, helping to adapt agile frameworks for effective management of Build & Run activities.
    Impact: Definition of a TOM for the implementation of solutions to be deployed to support, facilitate, and accelerate the ongoing transformation of Business and IT organizations towards product mode and scaled agility
    GENERALI - STUDIES IT DEPARTMENT
    • Propose an operational agile transformation of the Studies IT Department, CDS, streetshore, nearshore, MCO, SOScrums, SAFE AGRICOLE
    • Definition and deployment of the ARPEGIO methodology (CMMI) then SAFE Agile transformation
    • Implementation of the Agile@scale (Spotify) transformation project to improve the reliability of continuous production releases

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Education

  • Master in Software Engineering and Quality
    CNAM Paris
    2002
    Master en ingénierie et qualité logiciel

Certifications

  • Scrum Master
    Scrum.org
    2010
  • Lean Black Belt
    Lean
    2020

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