Stephnie Wium

Co-founder - Quantzi Consulting, Senior Project Manager, Business Readiness, Employment Practices @Quantzi Consulting

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As a Senior Project Manager at Quantzi Consulting, Stephnie Wium has successfully led several large-scale projects, ensuring business readiness and implementing effective employment practices. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, managing diverse teams and consistently delivering projects on time and within budget. Stephnie has also played a pivotal role in streamlining processes, enhancing productivity, and driving operational efficiency. Her strategic planning and risk management abilities have significantly contributed to the company's growth.

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Work Background

Quantzi Consulting Services (PTY) LTD Co-Founder

Aug. 2019South AfricaProject Management, SAFe Training and transformation, Digital Transformation, Digital Banking, Agile Training, Scrum Training, Agile Transformation, ART Launches

Quantzi Consulting Services (PTY) LTD Senior Enterprise Agile Coach / Digital Agile Transformation specialist / SPC / Senior PM

Sep. 2022South AfricaDigital Sales Transformation

DVTSenior Program Manager | Senior Agile Coach | SAFE 6.0 SPC and Trainer | Senior Scrum Master| RTE

Sep. 2021South Africa

Santam InsuranceSenior Program Manager | Senior Agile Coach | Senior Scrum Master

Sep. 2021South Africa

Liberty Group South AfricaSenior Scrum master and Senior Agile Coach

Feb. 2020 - Oct. 2021South AfricaGuide and coach the Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers Responsible for ensuring SAFe is understood and the team adheres to Agile theory, practice, and guidelines of how the trains are functioning and the different roles within the trains. Provides coaching and development techniques that bring high performance to feature teams Facilitates and supports all ceremonies: Sprint Planning Daily Stand-up Backlog Refinement Sprint Retrospective Communicate effectively with product owner, product manager and stakeholders Work with Feature Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive fast decision making Assisting and coaching the product owner and product manager where stakeholder engagements needs to be held. Ensure stakeholders have a voice in the Agile process Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team Conflict Management Coaching the team on user story writing Ensure the team review their DOR, DOD and team agreement on a regular basis Ensure the team apply the DOR and DOD to all stories pulled into the iteration

BMW GroupSenior Agile Coach - SAFe

Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019Germany and South-AfricaSetup SAFe Trains with various distributed feature teams across Europe, South-Africa and United Kingdom. Setting up the trains included interviewing and appointments of various Agile Masters, a RTE (Release Train Engineer), and STE (Solution Train Engineer). Coaching in South-Africa and Germany on Enterprise Level. I travelled to Germany frequently to coach on team level as well as executive level to adopt the Agile way of work.Guide and coach the Executives, PO , PM, RTE, Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers Ensuring SAFe is understood and the team adheres to Agile theory, practice, and guidelines of how the trains are functioning and the different roles within the trains. Coaching development techniques that bring high performance to feature teams Facilitates and supports all ceremonies: PI Planning, ART Sync, Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-up, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Retrospective, Inspect and Adapt Process Communicate effectively with product owner, product manager and stakeholders Coaching the product owner and product manager where stakeholder engagements needs to be held. Ensure stakeholders have a voice in the Agile process Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team Conflict Management Coaching the team on user story writing Ensure the team review their DOR, DOD and team agreement on a regular basis Ensure the team apply the DOR and DOD to all stories pulled into the iteration Coaching Practice & Capability Facilitation: Facilitated leadership and team discussions with leaders and members and adapted facilitation techniques to other situations. Teaching: Provided training at leadership and team level. Servant Leadership: Guided the teams through continuous improvement. Served the teams and ensured I am always aware of my own EQ strengths. Conduct organization-wide Agile training. Continuous Improvement

BMW GroupSenior Agile Coach - SAFe

Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019Germany and South-AfricaSetup SAFe Trains with various distributed feature teams across Europe, South-Africa and United Kingdom. Setting up the trains included interviewing and appointments of various Agile Masters, a RTE (Release Train Engineer), and STE (Solution Train Engineer). Coaching in South-Africa and Germany on Enterprise Level. I travelled to Germany frequently to coach on team level as well as executive level to adopt the Agile way of work.Guide and coach the Executives, PO , PM, RTE, Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers Ensuring SAFe is understood and the team adheres to Agile theory, practice, and guidelines of how the trains are functioning and the different roles within the trains. Coaching development techniques that bring high performance to feature teams Facilitates and supports all ceremonies: PI Planning, ART Sync, Iteration Planning, Daily-Standup, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Retrospective, Inspect and Adapt Process Communicate effectively with product owner, product manager and stakeholders Coaching the product owner and product manager where stakeholder engagements needs to be held. Ensure stakeholders have a voice in the Agile process Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team Conflict Management Coaching the team on user story writing Ensure the team review their DOR, DOD and team agreement on a regular basis Ensure the team apply the DOR and DOD to all stories pulled into the iteration Coaching Practice & Capability Facilitation: Facilitated leadership and team discussions with leaders and members and adapted facilitation techniques to other situations. Teaching: Provided training at leadership and team level. Servant Leadership: Guided the teams through continuous improvement. Served the teams and ensured I am always aware of my own EQ strengths. Conduct organization-wide Agile training. Continuous Improvement

MomentumSenior Scrum master and Coach

Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2018South AfricaAgile Coaching Coached the Squad Leads, and teams to improve their Agile practices and mindset Employed teaching, mentoring, and professional coaching techniques as appropriate for the circumstances and people to increase the Agile knowledge, mindset and execution of Agile values and principles. Shared innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility. COP Coaching the teams on user story writing Utilised methods from multiple frameworks and developmental models to provide a customized coaching approach to teams. I Lead by example in displaying Agile behaviours. Senior Scrum Master (3 Feature Teams) Guided and coached the Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines Provides coaching and development techniques that bring high performance to Scrum teams Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Backlog Refinement Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Communicated effectively, both internally and externally Worked with Feature Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive fast decision making Ensured internal stakeholders had a voice in the scrum process Resolved team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team

Standard Bank GroupSenior Agile Coach / Senior Scrum Master (4 Feature Teams)

Mar. 2014 - Dec. 2016South AfricaCoached and developed all levels of staff including executives on how to implement and sustain Agile values, principles and practices Influenced and coached leaders in the development of a team culture that supports team engagement and high performance Coached & Facilitated teams and Agile Release Trains to improve removal of delivery impediments for successful business value delivery and keep work transparent Apply a high level of strategic and tactical business acumen, and industry knowledge, to facilitate solution development Fostered a culture of outcomes focus, service management, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement Realising tangible outcomes and return on investment for business change through ensuring business domains are supported by well-formed and self-organised teams, focused on delivery and operation of key capabilities Planning and leading the establishment of cross-functional teams for specific business domains, and coaching those teams to uplift competency and performance in following an appropriate mix of phased, Agile, and DevOps frameworks. Combining enthusiasm for operational excellence with solid systems thinking, building an environment where team members are inspired to collaborate in delivering the best possible outcomes. Senior Scrum Master (4 Feature Teams) Guided and coached the Feature Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products to our customers Provides coaching and development techniques that bring high performance to Scrum teams Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Backlog Refinement Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Worked with Feature Teams as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive fast decision making Ensured internal stakeholders had a voice in the scrum process Resolved team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of each Feature Team

BettergroupSenior Project Manager | Senior Scrum Master and Senior Agile Coach

Feb. 2013 - Jun. 2014Coached and developed all levels of staff including executives on how to implement and sustain Agile values, principles and practices. Influenced and coached leaders in the development of a team culture that supports team engagement and high performance. Coached & Facilitated teams and Agile Release Trains to improve removal of delivery impediments for successful business value delivery and keep work transparent. Apply a high level of strategic and tactical business acumen, and industry knowledge, to facilitate solution development. Fostered a culture of outcomes focus, service management, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement. Realising tangible outcomes and return on investment for business change through ensuring business domains are supported by well-formed and self-organised teams, focused on delivery and operation of key capabilities. Planning and leading the establishment of cross-functional (business, development, and operations) teams for specific business domains, and coaching those teams to uplift competency and performance in following an appropriate mix of phased, Agile, and DevOps frameworks. Combining enthusiasm for operational excellence with solid systems thinking, building an environment where team members are inspired to collaborate in delivering the best possible outcomes. Managed In-house software development projects

Inter-Active TechnologiesSenior Agile Coach / Senior Project Manager

Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2013Coached and developed all levels of staff including executives on how to implement and sustain Agile values, principles and practices. Influenced and coached leaders in the development of a team culture that supports team engagement and high performance. Coached & Facilitated teams and Agile Release Trains to improve removal of delivery impediments for successful business value delivery and keep work transparent. Apply a high level of strategic and tactical business acumen, and industry knowledge, to facilitate solution development. Fostered a culture of outcomes focus, service management, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement. Realising tangible outcomes and return on investment for business change through ensuring business domains are supported by well-formed and self-organised teams, focused on delivery and operation of key capabilities. Planning and leading the establishment of cross-functional (business, development, and operations) teams for specific business domains, and coaching those teams to uplift competency and performance in following an appropriate mix of phased, Agile, and DevOps frameworks. Combining enthusiasm for operational excellence with solid systems thinking, building an environment where team members are inspired to collaborate in delivering the best possible outcomes. Managed contact centre implementation projects from inception through to completion. Managed budgets Managed Risks Managed Customer relationships