Open to: agile coaching, transformation lead and delivery management engagementsAvailable: from 1 December 2026
I help organisations deliver faster and more predictably through self-managing teams. I coach managers and teams alike, and embed AI into the way the business actually works.
Author of The S.A.L.I.M. System: 477 pages across 5 parts and 19 chapters, distilling 20+ years of hands-on practice in software development, delivery, coaching and transformation. Published April 2026.
Engagements: transformation assessments, team and leadership coaching, agile and leadership training, retrospective facilitation.
AIgile tools: designed and built the tools I use with clients: AI-assisted retrospectives, Dashboard Manager, delivery scoring and a Westrum culture survey.
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL)Sep 2016 · Dec 2025
Senior Agile Coach & Transformation Lead · 9 years
Scaled from 1 to 13 Scrum / SAFe teams (~110 people)
Starting point: fragmented flow, dependencies surfacing a sprint before release, unpredictable delivery and unrealistic plans.
2016-2019Agile coach · 1 team
2019-2020Agile coach · 2 teams
2020-2023Value stream · 9 teams
2023-2025Enterprise coach · 13 teams
Flow & dependencies: introduced WIP limits and mapped dependencies two sprints ahead. Cycle time cut from a full quarter to a few weeks.
Leadership & mentoring: facilitated 350+ retrospectives, mentored 200+ agile practitioners, hired and grew Scrum Masters and agile coaches, and aligned 30+ IT and business stakeholders.
Salim Gomri
Experience, mentoring & impact
Earlier experience
Financière MédiaMay 2014 · Sep 2016
Agile Project Manager · Delivery transformation
Before: requests tracked over email and Excel with no traceability; some sat untouched for one to two years.
Change: shared Trello board, a steady agile cadence (planning, refinement, review, retro), explicit acceptance criteria and systematic business sign-off.
After: request-to-production lead time down to 2–3 weeks; blocking incidents resolved within days.
Scope: 12 developers, ~1,000 users and 500+ clients across 4 countries (France, Italy, Brazil, US).
KidoriaOct 2011 · Apr 2014
CTO & Co-founder
Product: secure digital vault for families: photos, videos, health records, time capsule.
MVP: shipped in 3 months on Symfony 2 / PHP / MySQL, with automated Selenium tests.
Traction: ~10 pilot families, then ~50 early adopters; iPhone app live on the App Store.
Lessons learned: product timing, problem validation and product-market fit.
Adneom LuxembourgMay 2011 · Oct 2011
Project Manager & Developer · assignment at bpost
Henri Tudor Public Research CentreApr 2006 · May 2011
Scrum Master & R&D Engineer
Product: Toolinnove, a project management tool used by around ten client companies.
Role: moved from developer to Scrum Master for a team of about 7 developers.
Culture: regular feedback loops, psychological safety and a steady path towards team autonomy.
Innovation: iPhone app released on the App Store in 2010.
Alten · France Télécom R&DSep 2003 · Apr 2006
Consultant, then Technical Lead & Site Manager
Engagement: a two-week assignment that ran for 2.5 years; the team grew from 2 to 12 consultants.
Context: Odimat, a C++/Qt cellular traffic monitoring tool with a cluttered UI and a codebase in need of heavy refactoring.
Work: UX overhaul, major refactorings, engineering standards, pair programming.
Leadership: hiring, weekly one-to-ones, day-to-day client coordination and technical trade-offs.
