Franziska Knoblauch
Strategy Consulting
Experience
Strategy Consulting
AXA Deutschland
- Developing a new test strategy for AXA Germany
- Analyzing the existing strategy and identifying 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
- Creating a roadmap and related capacity planning to implement the new test strategy
- Optimizing internal planning processes related to test capacities
- Coordinating offshore activities and acting as liaison between the onsite team and offshore experts
Deputy Delivery Manager
AXA AG
- Overall responsibility for compliance with all contract components for all three subprojects
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Budget and personnel planning
- Stakeholder management
- Conflict management
- Preparing management reports
- Setting up 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
- Coordinating with development teams
- Establishing a defect management process
- Setting up JIRA boards including dashboards and reports
- Resolving technical impediments
- Restructuring teams and processes to optimize collaboration
- Preparing management reports
- Quality assurance of deliverables
- Coordination with offshore
Functional Project Lead & Subject Matter Expert
ALH Konzern
- Defining project goals
- Defining and prioritizing work packages
- Project planning & control (budget, capacities, timing)
- Preparing management reports
- Conducting steering committee meetings
- Conflict management
- Stakeholder management
- Coordinating with the technical project team
- Leading requirements workshops
- Creating functional designs
- Optimizing business processes
- Building and establishing regression testing
- Adapting processes to agile ways of working in a corporate environment
- Supporting the business unit with requirements 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"
Developing test strategies
Acting as interface with those responsible in the integration teams and between the onsite and offshore teams
Defining and conducting the onboarding process
Creating training materials for employees
Delivering employee training sessions and team workshops
Introducing agile ways of working for 2 Scrum teams and an agile team (using Kanban)
Establishing all Scrum events
Supporting the 2 Product Owners in defining the product backlog
Setting up 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 collaboration with the other Scrum Masters
Restructuring teams and processes to optimize collaboration
Planning and progress tracking
Preparing management reports
Quality assurance of deliverables
Coordinating with offshore
Stakeholder management
Budget and personnel planning
PMO
STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH
- Organizing steering committee meetings and team meetings, including preparing presentations, taking minutes, and follow-up
- Project communication internally and across programs, including with external service providers
- Maintaining and managing project folders
- Establishing and maintaining an activity list for the project
- Risk management and risk analysis
- Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management
- Creating project plans and tracking milestones
- Preparing project status reports
- Preparing decision documents
- Creating training materials for staff
- Creating the program newsletter for internal staff
Business Analyst & PMO
Allianz Deutschland AG
- Coordinating, planning, and aligning implementation options with clients, users, functional design, and architecture
- Creating sub-project descriptions and defining work packages
- Organizational and process analysis of the requirements to be implemented, assessing feasibility including cost-effectiveness, time, and effort estimation
- Monitoring project progress
- Preparing implementation concepts, business rules, and use cases
- Supporting the IT implementation
- Quality assurance and test management, including defining test cases, executing them, and documenting results in coordination with the Indian test center
- Conducting customer acceptance tests
- Resolving operational issues
- Project planning and documentation
- Tracking tasks and time in Planview
- Status reporting and minute-taking
- Identifying risk situations and deviations from the plan, and reporting to project management
- Onboarding and training new employees
Industry Experience
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Experienced in Insurance, Information Technology, and Real Estate.
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Experienced in Quality Assurance, Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Strategy.
Summary
In her past projects, Ms. Knoblauch consistently impressed with her combination of project management skills and insurance expertise.
Thanks to her structured way of working, she always keeps the project goals in sight, sees the connections, and sets the right priorities. Moreover, she always dives deep into the topics and thus can contribute technical know-how to the project's success.
"As a woman in the often male-dominated IT industry, I have made it my mission to build strong trust through reliability and sensitivity and to guide and support you in your change initiatives."
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)
Ganttproject
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, Powerpoint, 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
Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist
Scaledagile.com
Digital Process Management
ManagementCircle
IPMA Level D (Project Management Specialist)
GPM®
Professional Product Owner
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master
Scrum.org
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