Ahmed Hammad

Business in brief

Hammad trains and coaches many teams on Agile, Scrum, extreme programming, and Kanban. Ahmed also trains and coaches teams to help them get certifies in CMMI using Agile methodologies.

Organizations

Ahmed is working at SECC as a Quality Expert for more than 6 years, consulted many small, medium and large organization in software process improvement and how to improve analysis, architecture, design, programming and testing practices.
Ahmed is actively researching and developing Agile and software engineering offerings to support the software industry in Egypt.

Ahmed worked for 14 years in software organizations such as Sakhr, Harf and QuickTel as programmer, project manager and technical manager. As a result, he has extensive software development and management experience in Desktop applications, database applications, Web-based applications, Mobile applications, and embedded applications. This helps him to guide software process improvement with deep understanding to the technical and management challenges.

Awards

Ahmed’s work was appreciated from all organizations and individuals he worked with starting from HARF, one of the projects he was managing was honored as "Best Internet Site" in 2000 from Windows magazine in Dubai Gitex.

Certifications and designations

• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from Scrum Alliance.
• Certified PSP Engineer from Carnegie Mellon University.
• ITIL Expert in ITIL Service management from BCS, UK Cabinet Office.
• Bsc. of Computer Engineering in 1993

Sources/References

Ahmed has many articles published in the Egypt SPIN covering software development topics and many other Process Improvement topics. He also produced the training materials of some Agile technical topics such as Unit Test, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration. Ahmed also maintains a blog about software engineering issues.