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Isabelle Therrien

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Agile Coach, Speaker & Trainer

Isabelle is a team gatherer, passionate about human relations and value creation. Her communicative enthusiasm, natural leadership, and creativity are the main strengths that support her in her mandates.

She has always been a passionate communicator. For several years, she has given several conferences highly appreciated by their audience. She has also given training to private groups in companies several times in the last 10 years. She knows how to adapt her content and her way of delivering her message depending on the type of audience and the size of the group.

She fell into Agility in 2007 after completing her MBA and holding several positions in an SME: project manager, application architect, team leader. Since then, she has held the position of Scrum Master in about ten different projects, and she has coached dozens of other teams in several organizations of different sizes and environments.

During this time, she got involved in the Montreal and Canadian Agile community by organizing events (Spark the Change, Gatherings of agile coaches, Agile Coach Camp Canada, Agile Tour Montreal, Agile Open, monthly meetings of Agile Montreal), facilitating Open Forum days and sitting on the CA of Agile Montreal for 2 years.

Here are the conferences she has given:

2022

  • November 16, Agile Tour Montreal: “Scrum Events: to break the routine”, conference.
  • November 16, Agile Tour Montreal: “The 8 postures of the Scrum Master”, workshop.

2020

  • November 10, City of Montreal (Community of Practice): “Better take off to better land”, about project takeoff.

2019

  • November 28, Agile Tour Montreal: “Visual note-taking (Sketchnoting): a tool for learning”, in conference version (20 minutes) and workshop.
  • May 9, Event les Affaires “Agile Management”: “Apply agile principles to set up autonomous and efficient multidisciplinary teams”, in collaboration with Éric Laramée

2018

  • November 15, Agile Tour Montreal: “Bet on Agility and Design Thinking to offer a remarkable customer experience” in collaboration with Alain C. Courville and Olivier Bataille
  • November 15, Agile Tour Montreal: “Listening and feedback: how to express our concerns properly” 

2017

  • November 30, Agile Tour Montreal: “Better take off to better land” (15-minute format)

2016

  • November 16, Agile Tour Montreal: “3,2,1… Liftoff – getting your team off to a great start”, in collaboration with Ellen Grove
  • November 16, Agile Tour Montreal: “Renovate your daily scrums” 
  • April 13, Agile Montreal: “Dreaming the Agile organization”, in collaboration with Éric Laramée
  • February 24, IIBA: “Agile project takeoff”

2015

  • November 13, Agile Tour Montreal: “Communities of practice”
  • November 18, PMI-Montreal Webinar: “Agility: fundamental elements and pitfalls to avoid”
  • September 9, Agile Montreal: “Agile project startup”
  • April 9, 2015, PMI-Montreal: “In April, let’s talk Agile”

2014

  • November 15, Agile Tour Montreal: “Agile project startup”

2013

  • November 9, Agile Tour Montreal: “Good coach, bad coach”, in collaboration with Nicolas Mivielle (Ubisoft)

2012

  • November, Agile Tour Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec: “How to decide when there are 7 of us doing it?”, in collaboration with Vincent Cléroux (Pyxis)

2009

  • August 12, Agile 2009 (Chicago): “From anarchy to sustainable development: Scrum in less than ideal conditions”, in collaboration with Erik Lebel (Pyxis)
  • May 25, XP Days (Paris): “An extremely ambitious and vague project using the latest technologies, distributed over several continents”, in collaboration with Alexandre Ribeiro (BeTomorrow) and Emmanuel Bouton (Orange Business Services)
  • March 30, XP Days (Geneva): “Effective development with 20 people on 2 continents, it’s possible!”
  • March 12, Agile Montreal: “An extremely ambitious and vague project using the latest technologies, with a team spread over two continents,… you said risky?”

Some of the companies that Isabelle has accompanied:

  • Desjardins
  • Ubisoft
  • La Presse and Nuglif
  • Fondaction
  • Centris
  • Sogema
  • Ivanhoe Cambridge
  • LightSpeed
  • Mirametrix
  • Fonds de solidarité FTQ
  • Groupe Canam
  • Ministère de l’Immigration du Québec (MICC)
  • TD Assurance
  • Directeur Général du Québec
  • Expertus

A Few Testimonials:

"Isabelle perfectly embodies agile values. She has demonstrated a great ability to convey them to both the development teams and the management team. Also, she particularly stands out for her attitude. Always positive, calm, and reassuring, she excels at leading us to think differently."
Mathieu MartinVice President, Technology
"Isabelle is a passionate specialist and promoter of agility. As a coach, she has an inexhaustible source of ideas, methods, and inspiration for improving these practices in a company.

Combining understanding and mastery of the art of being a diplomatic and pedagogical Scrum master, while being rigorous without being rigid, Isabelle perfectly embodies the role of facilitator. She is dedicated to making us aware of obstacles and suggesting paths for improvement to solve them. Her suggestions are always relevant and adapted to the agile maturity of the organization.

Through her passion for agility, her work ethic, and her immense intelligence, Isabelle always takes us higher in agile excellence."
Jean-Marc De JongheVice-President
"I recommend Isabelle for any organization that wants to implement the Agile methodology. Isabelle masters the values and principles of this methodology and knows how to adapt it to the needs of the organization. Through a gradual approach, Isabelle has made us autonomous in this methodology and has helped establish better harmony within the group."
Sylvie MonfetteSylvie Monfette, Senior Advisor, Desjardins Direction, Integrated Solutions, Caisses
"I had the pleasure of knowing Isabelle during the agile coach mandate she carried out at the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities in 2011-2012. She had to coach a few teams in a ministry that was starting from scratch in terms of agility.

Isabelle is a very dynamic and committed person. She knows her subjects perfectly. She is constantly on the lookout for everything related to agile approaches and related fields and she is very involved in this environment.

She has a nice ease of communication with the people she works with. She knows how to make people comfortable. She knows how to listen and adjust to her clients in order to effectively convey her knowledge.

I found in Isabelle a resource person of great value, a very professional, reliable and rigorous person as well as a colleague with whom working is very pleasant. Her passage at the MICC was very constructive for us."
Jean VaillancourtAnalyste in web architecture at Curateur public du Québec
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