Arnaud Viguié

Organisational Excellence, Transformation & Scaling

Personal Statement

Accomplished Agile leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in project, programme, and business management, including 10 spent increasing agility in organisations. I have led successful Agile transformations, audited and corrected flailing ones, embedded tailored ways of working, and helped start-ups scale up. I have a demonstrated ability to quickly shift mindset and working practices in all functions at all levels, from delivery teams to C-suite, reducing waste and increasing value, customer satisfaction, adaptability, and resilience.

Core Competencies

Organisational Excellence

Assess tools, practices, workflows, and governance to identify and address inefficiencies and bottlenecks.

Agile Transformation & Design

Collaborate across functions to enhance structure and governance, fostering a culture focused on customer value and satisfaction.

Change Management

Ensure all stakeholders understand the reasons for change and become active participants in the organisational strategy.

Agile Training & Coaching

Develop and deliver Agile training for all levels and coach teams and leaders to enact and sustain changes.

Delivery & Programme Management

Extensive experience in Product Ownership, Agile Delivery, Project and Programme Management, and PMO, from direct execution to coaching others.

Professional Experience

Director

Everywhere Agile Ltd, Southampton

Sep 2022 - Present

Agile consultancy: Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Agile Leadership, Training & Coaching.

Operating Model Consultant / Enterprise Agile Coach

Oct 2023 - Jun 2024

  • Defined a new Operating Model for Morgan IT to better address business needs.
  • Assessed operating model then worked with the CIO's team to design a radically better one.
  • Worked with the PMO to define new governance, tools and processes, and trained teams and management.
  • Resulted in Morgan IT function transitioning to their new operating model in June 24, leading to improved business engagement and faster, more focused delivery.

Organisational Excellence & Hardware Agility Consultant

Sep 2022 - Apr 2024

  • Contributed to the structuring of company operations, establishing teams and preparing for scaling.
  • Proposed appropriate tools and defined pertinent processes to enable them to plan and deliver their work and to foster continuous improvement.
  • Resulted in teams becoming fully autonomous with effective Agile practices, measurable continuous improvement, enterprise alignment, and the successful testing of the full-size rocket engine prototype.

Director of Agile Centre of Excellence

Sep 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Developed JLR Agile Centre of Excellence and kickstarted JLR's transformative journey.
  • Guided all functions towards more Agile ways of working, increasing collaboration and aligning transformation initiatives.
  • Built and led a team of 137 Agile Coaches and Lead Coaches.
  • Resulted in 6000+ colleagues embracing new ways of working and consistent transformation across all functions.
  • Reduced Product Engineering impediments' escalation time to the CEO to less than a week (6X faster).

Agile Transformation Coach

May 2021 - Sep 2021

  • Advised D&G IT in transforming its organisational setup and governance to improve delivery pace.
  • Assessed existing setup, governance, and value delivery flow, then collaborated with teams and management to define improved ways of working.
  • Resulted in a new cross-functional team set-up, alongside improved alignment and collaboration tools and processes, ensuring faster team-based and collective delivery.

Agile Transformation Coach

May 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Transformed how Quilter managed IT projects and Programmes, to improve reliability and pace.
  • Resulted in a new organisational design with cross-functional teams that enabled faster delivery through decreased dependencies.
  • Increased IT employee satisfaction led to lower turnover rate.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Aug 2017 - Dec 2018

  • Evaluated a flailing critical program, proposed solutions, and helped implement corrective actions.
  • Delivery against Sprint commitments improved from 68% to 98%.
  • The number of quality issues was halved, and employee satisfaction improved significantly.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Jun 2016 - May 2017

  • Assessed communication and collaboration processes to identify the root causes of significant tensions between international teams.
  • Addressed challenges in scaling effectively during a period of fast growth.
  • Acted as a Product Owner to create a server version of the company's cloud product.

Founder, CEO

parAgence

Jan 2009 - Jan 2016

  • Created and delivered online tools and services for French real estate agencies.
  • Achieved growth from 30 to over 7,000 client agencies in two years.
  • Sold in January 2016 to SprintMedia group.

Project Manager Online Gaming

Mar 2004 - Oct 2008

  • Managed end-to-end project lifecycles of European versions of online games in partnership with Electronic Arts and Disney Interactive.
  • Included website creation, payment systems integration, community management and events.

What Colleagues & Clients Say

"You challenged us. You inspired us. You helped us to realise we didn't have to wait our turn to be agile, we could start right now."

- Karen Stables, JLR Head of IT PMO

"Arnaud brought a wealth of knowledge and experience about Agile best practice and his coaching immediately delivered benefits."

- Julie Dennis, Domestic & General Transformation Director

"Arnaud's natural ability to connect with people... along with his deep knowledge of Agile transformation, self-organizing teams and Agile leadership has been highly influential and beneficial to creating value for our clients."

- Sarah Paikin, AgileForEd Founder

"His knowledge of Agile good practices helped us update our project management framework and helped the product owners and scrum teams to develop constructive solutions quickly and thinking outside the box."

- John Ronald, Skyguide PMO Manager

Education & Certifications

Key Certifications

Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum@Scale practitioner, Eduscrum practitioner, Lean practitioner, Scrum for Hardware trainer.

Master of Arts in Central and Eastern European studies

Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Bachelor of Science in Internet Technologies (equivalent)

University of Versailles, Vélizy, France

Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Business Development (equivalent)

University of Tours, Tours, France

Publications