Meet our Coach
Jean-Christophe Lauffer
Catch Phrase
With mother tongue French, fluent English, more than 10 years of Agile experience and an extensive knowledge of different approaches, Jean-Christophe is a successful Agile Coach who can help you to benefit from being more agile.
Professional Experience
Since May 2016
Agile Coach
Agilia Solutions (Montreal, Canada)
Consultant for Agilia Solutions
Main achievements :
- Agile coaching
- Scrum and Kanban coaching and guiding
- Agile projects kickoffs
- Agile scaling based on SAFe / Disciplined Agile / Nexus
Client :
- Intact Financial Corporation (Montreal, Canada) 2 years (since 2018)
- Desjardins (Montreal, Canada) 2 years (2016-2018)
2013 – 2016
Senior Scrum Master / DevOps
Yellow Pages (Montreal, Canada)
In charge of Yellow Pages Mobile department:
- Yellow Pages Mobile applications (iOS and Android) : Agile Coach and Scrum Master
● Yellow Pages Mobile websites (+ 2M views a week) : Agile Coach, Scrum Master and DevOps
Main achievements:
- Agile coaching on the whole department
- Scrum facilitation for 4 teams
- Linux servers on Amazon Web Services definition and management via Rightscale and Chef
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment setup for PHP applications
- PHP applications development with Symfony 2 framework
2007 – 2013
Linux System Administrator / Developer / Scrum Master
Avisto Telecom (France)
Consultant for Avisto Telecom.
Main achievements:
- Linux infrastructure setup and maintenance, servers audit and migration
- Scrum framework implementation for development and support teams
- Continuous Integration setup
- PHP tools development
Clients:
- Thomson Video Networks (France) 1 year 5 months (2011-2013)
- Technicolor (France) 3 years (2008-2011)
- NXP Semiconductors (France) 1 year 4 months (2007-2008)
2005 – 2007
Developer
Companies:
- Atos Origin (France) 1 year 3 months (2006-2007)
- Abase Bretagne (France) 1 year 3 months (2005-2006)
Agile Coach / Scrum Master
Linux System Administrator
Developer
10 Years
10 Years
10 Years
Scrum Coaching and Scrum Mastering with several teams
99% uptime for all managed services
Advanced Bash, Python and PHP developer
Profile and Skills
Agile Coaching
Scrum Framework
Kanban
XP Practices
Tools (JIRA agile, IceScrum, boards)
Continuous integration (Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven, Phing)
5 Years
10 Years
4 Years
12 Years
10 Years
10 Years
Studies and certifications
2018 2018 2017 2017
2011 2008
2004
ICP-ACC ICAgile
Bikablo basic training Bikablo Inc.
Professional Product Owner Scrum.org
Certified Disciplined Agilist Disciplined Agile Consortium
Scaled Professional Scrum (Nexus) Scrum.org
SAFe Certified Agilist Digital Tango
Management 3.0 Pyxis
Kanban Management Professional (KMP I & KMP II) Lean Kanban University
Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance
Advanced Linux Administrator Certification (LPIC-2) Linux Professional Institute
Master’s Degree in Computer Science IFSIC (France) (french title: DESS)
Conferences & Authorship
Conferences:
- Training from the Back of the Room Workshop (Agile Tour Montreal, 2019)
- User Story Mapping Workshop (Agile Tour Montreal, 2018)
- Mind Mapping Workshop (Agile Tour Montreal, 2017)
- Agile presentation (HEC Montreal, 2017)
Published articles:
- Experiment with D-Bus (GNU/Linux Magazine France, 2008)
- OpenID Implementation (Linux Pratique, 2008)