Menna Selim
New Cairo,C
Summary
Senior Agile Project Manager with over 10 years of experience successfully leading complex software development projects across diverse industries. Proven expertise in Agile methodologies, project planning, budget management, and team coordination. Skilled at driving cross-functional collaboration, optimizing workflows, and delivering high-quality results on time and within budget.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Agile Project Manager
Credit Agricole Bank
01.2025 - Current
- Managing end-to-end project delivery with a focus on Agile frameworks.
- Leading cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and continuous improvement.
- Leading project planning activities to define scope, resources, and deliverables.
- Monitoring project performance, timelines, and budgets to ensure successful delivery.
- Ensuring risk management and quality assurance across all project phases.
- Organizing and facilitating Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions, and demos.
- Reporting progress and key metrics to the top management for informed decision-making.
- Supporting cultural change by promoting collaboration, accountability, and agility.
- Contributing to the enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives across multiple departments.
Senior Agile Project Manager
Valeo
08.2023 - 12.2024
- Lead multiple cross-functional software development projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope
- Managed task tracking and progress for a team of over 80 employees, ensuring all milestones and deliverables were met
- Oversaw the development and maintenance of project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and change requests
- Controlled project budgets, overseeing financial planning, resource allocation, and cost management
- Served as the primary point of contact for customers, managing expectations and ensuring high levels of satisfaction
- Implemented Agile methodologies, significantly improving team productivity and project outcomes
- Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution, and enable the exploration of alternatives or different approaches & ensure no impact on the delivery of projects
- Managing project initiation and planning phases
- Manage the Sprint planning meeting, ensure proper sizing and estimate per story from all team members
- Project timeline creation (overall delivery plan & number of sprints)
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
- Sprint tracking and progress reporting(Burn-up and down charts)
- Align with PO/ business representative on the agreed feature list and related release date
- Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements.
Agile Scrum Master
Orascom Financial Holding
11.2022 - 08.2023
- Leading two Agile squads comprising 30 members to successfully deliver FinTech programs.
- Managing project initiation and planning phases, including defining scope and objectives.
- Leading Sprint Planning meetings and ensuring accurate estimation and sizing of user stories by all team members.
- Creating comprehensive project timelines, including overall delivery plans and sprint breakdowns.
- Managing project delivery using Agile-Scrum methodology to ensure timely and quality outcomes.
- Organizing and facilitating Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions, and demos.
- Tracking sprint progress and reporting through Burn-Up and Burn-Down charts.
- Aligning with Product Owners and business stakeholders on feature lists and release schedules.
- Ensuring all user stories are documented in Jira with complete details and assigned to relevant features.
- Managing and prioritizing the product backlog in alignment with evolving business requirements.
Project Manager
Orange Business Services
03.2021 - 11.2022
- Project progress reporting to project stakeholders including reporting to customer success managers
- Proactively taking ownership of roadblocks, adjusting the planning, owning escalations and providing update to all stakeholders
- Work with customers & service management to develop implementation schedule
- Perform Order Validation of assigned orders for administrative completeness and technical consistency
- Customers' connections migration orders creation on tools
- Provide proactive project management to ensure the project deadline is met
- Initiate action to escalate or expedite provisioning issues, as required, to minimize delays.
Agile Project Coordinator
Valeo
01.2019 - 03.2021
- Allocating resources, assigning roles, and setting sprint deadlines to ensure timely project delivery.
- Creating and maintaining Agile project plans to monitor progress and ensure high-quality outcomes.
- Collaborating with external consultants and motivating the Agile team to meet sprint goals.
- Managing client interactions while aligning Agile processes with stakeholder expectations.
- Identifying project risks and implementing mitigation strategies to avoid delays.
- Maintaining Agile documentation, including sprint reports, retrospectives, and issue logs.
- Facilitating Agile practices across teams, ensuring continuous integration and testing.
- Leading process improvements to increase Agile maturity and project efficiency.
- Resolving impediments raised in Agile ceremonies and escalating critical issues as needed.
Test Process Improvement Engineer
Vodafone International Services
07.2017 - 12.2018
- Performing compliance assessments for waterfall projects to transform and follow agile methodologies
- Coaching and maintaining transformed projects "from waterfall to agile" across project team
- Creating Agile Process and Environment for Project team
- Performing compliance assessments and gap analysis for test processes among Vodafone market
- Planning and implementing test process transformation for various Vodafone market
- Conducting training and demonstration sessions for various test practitioners
- Conducting test process workshops to support market transformation activities.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Expleo Group
11.2015 - 07.2017
- Test automation of different applications for a large Insurance Company in Austria
- Participate in requirements analysis and test planning sessions
- Design and execute manual and automated test cases/scripts during functional and regression test cycle to ensure requirements coverage by using Tosca commander
- Create and maintain test data required for test execution.
- Detect and report software defects by using HP ALM.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Information Systems
Ain Shams University
Cairo07-2015
Skills
- Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall and Scaled Agile
- Team Leadership and Mentoring
- Risk and Issue Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Budgeting and Resource Allocation
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Timeline
Senior Agile Project Manager
Credit Agricole Bank
01.2025 - Current
Senior Agile Project Manager
Valeo
08.2023 - 12.2024
Agile Scrum Master
Orascom Financial Holding
11.2022 - 08.2023
Project Manager
Orange Business Services
03.2021 - 11.2022
Agile Project Coordinator
Valeo
01.2019 - 03.2021
Test Process Improvement Engineer
Vodafone International Services
07.2017 - 12.2018
Quality Assurance Analyst
Expleo Group
11.2015 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Information Systems
Ain Shams University
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