Mohamed Amr

Mohamed is an agile coach, trainer and a consultant who’s passionate about inspiring and enabling individuals and organizations to achieve sustainable agility. Mohamed combines around 10 years of experience in software engineering, process improvement and agile software development. As a Principle Consultant at Agile Academy, Mohamed coaches, trains and mentor individuals, teams and organizations in adopting agile. Mohamed has trained more than 800 professionals and coached various teams from small, medium and large companies. Mohamed was a key player in the largest agile adoption initiative in Egypt entitled (GoAgile program), which involved more than 50 different organizations and is considered as one of the key agile thought leaders in Egypt. Mohamed has worked with clients such as Vodafone, ITWorx, ITS, Valeo, Orange, Mantrac and many other clients in Egypt. Mohamed is the co-author of the “Process Increments” method, which is an agile-based method for managing software process improvement projects. Mohamed has also led many agile adoptions in different organizations coupled with other frameworks such as CMMI and Six Sigma during the last 5 years. Mohamed has spoken at local and international conferences such as Global Scrum Gatherings (Scrum Alliance) and Agile Conferences (Agile Alliance). Mohamed is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (ASQ).

Previously Mohamed worked as a process improvement specialist and change agent in IBM. Across a period of 5 years, Mohamed has led various adoption projects of many process improvement frameworks and methods in IBM such as (CMMI, Six Sigma (DMAIC), RUP) and achieved CMMI level 5 with IBM in 2005 to become the 1st company in the Middle East and Africa to achieve this level.