Agnes Ponthus

A passion for online and mobile application design, innovative services and lean architecture.
Striving for continuous learning and improvement, effectiveness in execution, smart ways to achieve our clients goals within the constraint (budget, organization, time).
Early adopter and fierce believer in the agile way (see our website for definition) which is nothing new when you think of it. Lean manufacturing & J.I.T., in the industrial world have been around for while and proven their effectiveness. Agile is no different in the software world.

My specific areas of expertise, beside leading the show at Pantha Corp in regards to Sales, Technology and Operation, are as follow:

* Business Dev. & Sales: networking, define and implement sales pipeline, prospects management, create sales material such as presentation & training packs, prepare commercial proposals, organize and facilitate workshops, contract negotiation, client initial setup.

* Product Strategy: market (technology) research, business case, supplier shortlist, user surveys, usability review, product backlog constitution, product roadmap

* Web-based / e-commerce architecture & design: system audit, functional analysis, initial architecture or re-architecture, solution design, prototyping

* Agile project management: stakeholder management, resource planning, project steering, scrum master

* Business analysis: requirement workshops, scope definition, user stories writing, business/ technical requirements writing, wireframing (user interface & interaction design)

* Agile quality assurance: coach test team to adopt agile methodology, user story test cases writing, test execution & report, regression test suite creation, automated test using Selenium

* Agile software team management: coaching development teams to adopt Scrum, Extreme programming, test-driven development. Drive global, distributed teams