The board of directors of the agile community of Montreal

Currently Agile Practice Leader at Alithya, I have over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, including more than a dozen as Scrum Master and Agile Coach. I have supported dozens of teams in delivering value for clients working in various business fields, such as mobile payment, banking, health, telecoms, mass distribution, transport, media, etc. I have also actively participated in Agile transformations at different levels. I am recognized for my values, my commitment, my leadership, my communication skills and my ability to adapt to different contexts.

My main focus is customer satisfaction. I personally believe that it is achieved by happy individuals, technically competent, and evolving in a psychologically safe environment, as well as by a real understanding of the needs, as well as a transparency and a flexibility of spirit in the execution. I have an interest in empirical and pragmatic approaches, operational efficiency, quality and technical excellence, which allows me to rally different trades within a team and promote collaboration in achieving objectives.

Linda has been a manager in the IT field for about ten years. She has worked in various sectors of activity (energy, transport, telecommunications, banking and insurance). After discovering the agile manifesto and experiencing her principles, she passes and obtains her Scrum Master certification in 2011.

Passionate about agility and its values, she devotes herself to the repositioning of the human (employee, colleague, customer, ...) at the center of projects and organizations in which she intervenes. She joins the Board of Agile Montreal to help promote agility and its values in the community.

Vincent Bouchard is a business consultant working in the field of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. He works primarily in the banking sector where he helps define business needs and supports development teams. A graduate of McGill in Finance, he also joins his financial expertise with his knowledge of data sciences to evaluate investments in new initiatives.

The Agile methodology is at the heart of the execution of its projects and a key element of their success. In February 2018, he joined the Board of Agile Montreal to promote agility and innovation in the community.

President of Empath Coaching, Mélanie is an inspirational and passionate mobilizer of the people behind the machine. It supports any individual, leader, team or organization in their transformation. Agile and especially Agile at scale (SAFe), she has worked in this field for several years where she held positions of Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Release Train Engineer. Transformational leader, she is very adept at creating an atmosphere of cooperation thus helping teams to gain Agile maturity. Endowed with an unusual intellectual curiosity, she continues to deepen her knowledge and skills in order to support individuals to develop their full potential. A certification as a practitioner in neurolinguistic programming will soon be added to her career. His raison d'être as an Agile coach is to help people realize their potential and open the way for them to achieve their goals. She keeps in mind to add value to each of her meetings and each of her interactions.

Mehdi Kdioui, holder of an MBA in technology and innovation management and an Executive MBA from Paris Dauphine. His vision, his ability to reach ambitious goals and his strong sense of innovation are assets that allow him to work to catalyze teams towards efficient solutions oriented towards business priorities and product quality.

Currently, he works as a leader in agile transformation within a Quebec financial institution. Previously, he had to support various IT and business teams in the agile transformation office, act as a strategic coach and as a contributor to the development and establishment of the TI University. Mehdi participated in the implementation of Agile and Devops practices and methodologies. He was also responsible for the technological advancements in the scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED) tax credit claims.

Member of the Chartered Administrators Order of Quebec and transformational leader, Andre is Chief of Agile practices at the City of Montreal and Agile trainer. He has over fifteen years of experience in the public and private sector in contexts of enterprise transformations in Europe and Canada (regulatory, methodological framework, digital).

His passion is to help individuals and teams improve their ability to deliver value to stakeholders.

Currently Scrum Master and agile practice community responsible at Alithya, I have accumulated 20 years of positions in information technology. I like to do things well in a fun and safe environment and I always have the desire to improve in my head. I love the human side of being a Scrum Master. I'm a team player first and foremost. I am known for challenging the status quo and pushing people to find solutions on their own and open doors that are usually closed. I love customer relationships and especially cultivating them! I got my PSM1 certification in February 2021 and I'm on a journey to become an agile coach to increase the reach I can have in business, while taking on new challenges with lessons learned from the past.

Agile coach and quality assurance at Alithya (Certified SAFe 4.0 Agilist),  Computer engineer , graduated from Algeria in 2007.  Several experiences in Algeria until 2013 as a web developer, business analyst, quality assurance practice manager, team leader, agile transformation agent, project manager.  Arrived to Montreal in 2013, many experiences as agile transformation agent, QA team leader, QA Lead, agile project manager, agile coach and quality assurance. Different sectors (Banking, Energy, Distribution, etc.)

Malika, who holds a degree in Communications & Information Technology from the Lille Douai Mining-Telecom Institute (France), has been involved in the delivery of business solutions, from strategy to execution, for more than 20 years. Executor, consultant, trainer, facilitator, or coach, depending on the requirements of the situation, Malika is passionate about improving collaborative practices and delivering solutions that put technology at the service of organizations by creating added value.

Capitalizing on shared meaning and mission-driven leadership, she sees agile values and principles as a solid foundation to create better synergies and develop more collective intelligence.