Franziska Knoblauch-Strategy Consulting
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Experience
Strategy Consulting
AXA Deutschland
- Creating a new test strategy for AXA Deutschland
- Analysis of the existing strategy and identification of current pain points
- Creating a survey to determine the status quo of current testing activities for each application system in the group
- Building a business case as a decision template for the executive board
- Building a roadmap and the related capacity planning for implementing the new test strategy
- Optimizing internal planning processes with regard to test capacities
- Coordinating offshore activities and acting as the interface between the onshore team and offshore experts
Deputy Delivery Manager
AXA AG
- Overall responsibility for compliance with all contract components for all 3 subprojects
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Budget and personnel planning
- Stakeholder management
- Conflict management
- Creating management reports
- Building new reporting structures
- Process analysis & optimization (within the team and in collaboration with external teams)
- Coordination with offshore
- Resolving technical impediments
Test Manager
AXA AG
- Creating test strategies
- Coordination with the development teams
- Building a defect management process
- Building JIRA boards including dashboards and reporting
- Resolving technical impediments
- Restructuring teams and processes to improve collaboration
- Creating management reports
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Coordination with offshore
Technical Project Lead + Subject Matter Expert
ALH Group
- Defining project goals
- Defining and prioritizing work packages
- Project planning & control (budget, capacities, timing)
- Creating management reports
- Running steering committee meetings
- Conflict management
- Stakeholder management
- Coordination with the technical project team
- Running requirements workshops
- Functional concept creation
- Optimizing business processes
- Building and establishing a regression test
- Adapting processes to the agile way of working in a corporate environment
- Supporting the business unit through requirement specification, business analysis, and testing activities
PMO, Business Requirements Engineer, Scrum Master, Delivery Committee member
AXA AG
Requirements analysis
Creating interface analyses including the "big picture"
Creating test strategies
Interface to the responsible people from the integration teams as well as between the onshore and offshore teams
Defining and running the onboarding process
Creating training materials for employees
Conducting employee training and team workshops
Introducing the agile way of working for 2 Scrum teams and one agile team (based on Kanban)
Establishing all Scrum events
Supporting the 2 Product Owners in defining the Product Backlog
Setting up the team-specific Scrum and Kanban boards
Monitoring the Jira boards including dashboards and reports
Tracking and increasing team velocity
Mentoring and conflict management
Supporting the agile transformation in cooperation with the other Scrum Masters
Restructuring teams and processes to improve collaboration
Planning and progress tracking
Creating management reports
Quality assurance of deliverables
Coordination with offshore
Stakeholder management
Budget and personnel planning
PMO
STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH
- Organization of steering committees and team meetings incl. preparation of presentations, minutes, and follow-up
- Project communication internally and across the program, also with external service providers
- Maintenance and administration of project folders
- Establishment and maintenance of an activity list for the project
- Risk management & risk analysis
- Stakeholder analysis & stakeholder management
- Project plan creation and tracking of milestones
- Creation of project status reports
- Creation of decision templates
- Creation of training materials for employees
- Creation of the program newsletter for internal employees
Business Analyst & PMO
Allianz Deutschland AG
- Coordination, planning, and alignment of implementation alternatives with clients, users, business design, and architecture
- Creation of sub-project descriptions and definition of work packages
- Organizational and process-related review of the requirement to be implemented, assessment of feasibility incl. cost-benefit analysis, time, and effort estimation
- Monitoring of project progress
- Creation of implementation concepts, business rules, and use cases
- Support of implementation by IT
- Quality assurance and test management including test case definition, execution, and documentation in coordination with the Indian test center
- Conducting customer acceptance tests
- Resolution of issues in day-to-day operations
- Project planning & documentation
- Task and time tracking in Planview
- Status reporting & minutes
- Identification of risk situations and deviations from plan and reporting to project management
- Onboarding and training of new employees
Industry experience
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Experienced in Insurance, Information Technology, and Real Estate.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Quality Assurance, Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Strategy.
Summary
In her previous projects, Ms. Knoblauch has always impressed through a combination of project management skills and insurance know-how.
With her structured way of working, she always keeps the project goals in sight, recognizes connections, and thus sets the right priorities. In addition, she always works her way deeply into the topics and can therefore also contribute to project success with her technical know-how.
"As a woman in the often male-dominated IT industry, I have made it my task to build strong trust through reliability and sensitivity, and to accompany and support you in your change initiative."
Skills
Agile Coaching & Introduction Of Agile Ways Of Working
Business Analysis In The Insurance Market [Focus: Commission Systems And Sales]
Project Management & Project Leadership
Process Consulting
Test Management
Allianz Business System
Aqt (Sql)
Bpmn 2.0
Business Intelligence Tool Qlikview
Confluence
Db Visualizer (With Select)
Gantproject
Hp Application Lifecycle Management (Hp Alm)
Hp Quality Center
Hp Project And Portfolio Management Center
Java
Jira
Kanban
Lotus Notes
Ms Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Project, Sharepoint, Teams, Visio, Word)
Panflow
Planview
Sap Crm
Sap Erp
Sap Signavio
Skype For Business
Splunk (Data Analysis, Error Handling)
Testedge (Operation)
Languages
Certifications & licenses
Scaledagile.com
Digital Process Management
ManagementCircle
Scrum.org
Scrum.org
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Qualifications
Profile
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Franziska is based in Hamburg, Germany.
Franziska speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).
Franziska has at least 11 years of experience. During this time, Franziska has worked in at least 7 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 7 months. Note that Franziska may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Franziska would be well-suited for roles such as: Strategy Consulting, Deputy Delivery Manager, Test Manager.
Franziska's most recent position is Strategy Consulting at AXA Deutschland.
In recent years, Franziska has worked for AXA Deutschland, AXA AG, and ALH Group.
Franziska is most experienced in industries like Insurance, Information Technology, and Real Estate.
Franziska is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Quality Assurance, and Information Technology. Franziska also has some experience in Business Intelligence and Strategy.
Franziska has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Insurance.
Franziska has recently worked in business areas like Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Information Technology.
Franziska has 5 certificates. Among them, these include: Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist, Digital Process Management, and IPMA Level D (Project Management Specialist).
Franziska will be available part-time from September 2026.
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