Ahmed Hammad

Contact me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-mahmoud-hammad-b9a8844/

Agile Consultant at IBM

Ahmed is an Agile and CMMI consultant for the last 9 years. Before that, he worked for 10+ years as a developer and a technical manager.

Ahmed enjoys empowering and supporting Agile teams to reach their potential. His support includes assessment, training, facilitation, and coaching for management processes as well as technical excellence practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery and Behavior Driven Development.

Qualifications:

B.SC. in Computer Engineering
Certified Scrum Professional
Certified ICAgile Trainer
Certified ITIL Expert
Certified Agile Tester, ISTQB.

Contacts:

Email to ahm507@gmail.com
Connect with me on Linkedin Profile
Follow me on Twitter

Activities:

Attended and volunteered in AgileAlliance conference 2015 (Washington DC) and 2014 (Orlando).
Attended CMMI conference 2008, Tampa, Florida.
Speaker in AMECSE conference.
Speaker in local meetups, and events.
Published article “Tracking Organization in Scrum Teams” on ScrumAlliance.
Maintain a blog at ahmed-m-hammad.blogspot.com
Creator and maintainer of IBM Modern Agile Community.
Contributed presentations at Slide Share.
Presented “ScrumMaster Challenges in Distributed Teams” at NAQTS, IBM US.

Experience:

Currently Agile Consultant at IBM since Jan 2016.
8+ years experience consulting, training and coaching Agile, CMMI and ITIL at SECC of ITIDA.
7+ years management experience at Harf, QuickTel, and Amadsoft/IESCOM.
7+ years programming experience at Sakhr and Harf.

Some Numbers:

Trained 1100+ in 80+ rounds for Agile and Software Engineering.
Coached 18+ organizations about Agile and Technical practices
Consulted 3 organizations for CMMI using Agile methodologies
Assessed 33+ company practices based on CMMI or Agile.
Consulted 27 about CMMI
Contributed in 5 CMMI appraisals
Consulted 5 organizations about ITIL

My Work at IBM:

Authored training material for 3 Agile courses, one of them (ICP) is accredited by ICAgile.

Conducted 10 rounds of Agile training for developers, testers, and Scrum Masters.

Consulting distributed teams on Scrum and XP practices.

Founded and leading Modern Agile Community.

Testimonials:

You are really an amazing instructor, I enjoyed the course, You helped me to understand topics very well. I become more interested in Agile, Trying to apply it on my technical and personal live.
– Mohamed Mansour, Infrastructure Specialist-AIX/UNIX, IBM Egypt

Ahmed, thank you for the 15 hours of Agile education. Your online class went very well and I’m grateful to have had the opportunity.
– Jina Zaighami, IBM Global Business Services (GBS), AD&I North America Quality Testing Services (NAQ TS)

I was in your previous agile session , wanted to thank you , it was very useful session and it was very engaging and interesting , looking forward to more of your sessions in the future.
Zeyad Mahmoud El Hodaiby, Test Specialist, IBM Egypt
The course was very useful.
We can apply what we have learned on our project so we can improve our quality.
Dina Embaby, Practitioner Portal GBS L&K, Test Specialist
Thanks for the course, I’ve really enjoyed it.
It was an amazing new experience!
Tarek Ammar PMP®, IT Testing Specialist

I was very happy and proud working with Eng. Ahmed Hammad as a Quality Expert while consulting our company in Process Improvements. He is very creative, talent, real expert, added many values and knowledge to the company members. I admit he is having a very calm and passionate personality that supported many difficulties. Ahmed is always motivating and encouraging teams. Ahmed is having a very wise and professional personality as well as wide technical experiences.

– Rania Kamel, Quality Division Manager, Egyptian Banks Company

Working with Ahmed was amazing whether it was in her role of consultant or simply as a “go to” and trusted person. Ever since he started to work with our company, he has been adding great value and was a significant game changer. Ahmed is highly recommended and I am looking forward to working with her [him] again in the future.

– Mosaab Shoulie, Director of Development, SyrianSoft

I enjoyed Ahmed’s class in Test-Driven Development. He’s very knowledgeable and helpful. His wide experience, supported by his friendly personality, delivered an excellent teaching experience during a 3-days, hands-on workshop that I found very useful and inspiring.
I highly recommend any classes or services Ahmed provides.

– Ahmed Moawad, Chief Operating Officer, Badr.