Farhana Farhana

• Responsible for successfully delivery of projects allocated to the portfolio to a client/Business.
• Working with a technical team within the Digital Space ensuring that the service is delivered on time, within budget.
• Manage delivery process from start to finish, including planning, scheduling, risk management, resource allocation, and communication with stakeholders.
• Responsible for tracking progress and adjusting to keep the delivery on track.
• Deliver Complex projects
• In addition, responsible for providing guidance and mentorship to team members and stakeholders to ensure that their needs and expectations are met.

Project Management/ Scrum Responsibilities

• Implement Project Management/Best Practices.
• Keep all Parties on Track and Informed.
• Agile practices with New team members
• Host Daily Stand-up Meetings. ...
• Assist the Product Owner With the Product Backlog.
• Remove Roadblocks.Application of Tech Scrum Practices and Principles.
• PI Panning using SAFe(SAFe 5.0 ceritified)
• Project and Change Governance
• Production Implementation
• Delivered projects on time and within budget through effective resource allocation and prioritization.
• Successfully managed significant changes, reducing interruptions to daily operations while achieving goals.
• Adapted quickly to changing priorities while implementing agile methodologies to meet milestones.

• Develop design ideas and establish design teams
• Build a Design Thinking system to create awareness, and train people of design thinking
• Conceptualize design projects and come up with creative ideas based on specific client needs
• Develop strategic plans for the projects, determining how long they will take and what they will cost
• Create storyboards and mockups to give clients and design teams an idea of how finished projects will look
• Choose Specific Design Elements for various projects
• Oversee design projects and review feedback from clients
• Analyze market research, customer reviews, and other material to create more effective designs
• Collaborate with Vendors Ensure Profitability

• Promote innovations to support the strategy
• Scout unusual and high potential impact ideas and opportunities and then link them to the FT towards solving challenges
• Shepherd ideas from concept stage through implementation, and ideally scaling a concept to strengthen across FT
• - ( Open Exo Methods)
• Roll out and analyze the effectiveness of initiatives that leverage multi-platform technologies
• Use social innovation to foster an environment for ideation, prototyping and production
• Effective management of partner relationships as well as internal project relationships and coordination
• Effective working relationships with other Plan staff and departments are also critical for this position

• Manager to manage a multiple work stream project and realize the project benefits
• Chair Steerco's and manage portfolio budgets
• Contribute towards the standardisation of Project Management tools and techniques and the development thereof
• Responsible for ensuring assigned IT projects are clearly and explicitly contracted and delivered to contract
• Responsible for updating and maintain the central knowledge repository for project management documentation for assigned projects

• Control project cost against budget & forecast; manage scope changes; quality assurance over deliverables; manage project plan and timeline
• Follow Blue Process methodology and adhere to test standards
• Release process and requirements
• Relationship management with stakeholders, customers and IT counterparts
• Building project team competence, capacity and engagement
• Matrix management of up to 80 staff

• Manage a multiple work stream project
• Assist with the provision of support to IT Portfolio Management and Santam PSU
• Ensuring project integration across project architectural elements, unity of purpose across all workstreams
• Project progress, through the adherence to project management discipline

• Mobilizing and managing a project through the Business change lifecycle
• Ensuring project integration across project architectural elements, unity of purpose across all workstreams and project progress, through the adherence to project management disciplines
• Using Value stream mapping as a tool to assist management and staff with realising value/waste/non-value in material and information flow in the organisation which help to make strategic decisions for improvement
• Define the case for change for a business concept derived from the strategic plan of RBS and refine staged business cases
• Manage projects through project leadership, scope and direction and stakeholder support
• Drive the performance of the project, active management of project components for gated reviews and resolution of project quality and design issues
• Empower project stakeholders through project information and feedback to make judicious project decisions at each gated review
• Integrate the architectural components of the project to achieve alignment and cohesion between service offering and architecture components (project quality)
• Develop Business Cases with feasibility to accurately support business benefit realization

• Project Manager for Business Process and projects
• Request existing information based on the identified project and familiarise with background of project and expectations
• Document necessary outputs, draft initial scope and vision, schedule stakeholder confirmation session and compile project procedures
• Identify risks related to success of project
• Respond to management requirements for improvements as per Business strategy
• Design processes to facilitate service delivery and efficiency in the group
• Design processes to facilitate service delivery within the business

• Reviewed Processes suggested solutions for streamlining Cost, documented flowcharts and procedures
• Assist Managers in putting an action plans to reduce cost and also clear backlog and smooth running of Identify Processes and constraints
• Worked on a major re-engineering project from March 2003 - July 2003 where ProudFoot Consulting facilitated change and cost reductions at Computershare
• I was identified as change Consultant out of 40 staff for the area for Continuous Process Improvement