Ad Fundum Consulting GmbH is a project management consulting company in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded in 2016. The company is managed by Astrid Gygax-Kluitenberg. We guide companies in day-to-day project implementation and consult them in embedding agile processes and methodologies throughout the organization.

Astrid is a freelance consultant, coach and project manager for (agile) project delivery. She has over 16 years of experience in business transformation and is a seasoned professional in agile working methods.

She is a Certified SAFe® 5 Program Consultant as well as a PRINCE2 Practitioner and a HERMES 2022 Advanced project manager. She combines solid industry know-how from the financial services, transportation, telecommunication and FMCG with fundamental consulting skills acquired at one of the leading consulting firms worldwide.

Astrid believes in quality, solution focus, efficiency, and collaboration as key drivers for business value in the era of digitalisation and disruption. She brings communicative skills, methodological, organisational and leadership competencies as well as a fundamental business understanding.

She speaks English, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch fluently. 

 More details  about her experience can be found on  Astrid Gygax-Kluitenberg | LinkedIn

 
Typical assignments
  1. Guide and coach your project delivery on a mandated basis. Duration is determined on a case-by-case basis, short or long-term assignments possible. Examples:
    • Agile project manager, scrum master, (proxy) product owner
    • Agile project delivery consultant, agile PMO
    • HERMES project manager
  2. Accelerate agility within your organisation
    • Agile impulse sessions, scrum trainings
    • Approximate duration is usually between ½ and 1 day depending on the scope of the workshop
  3. Prepare your organisation for working with Scrum or scaling agility to a wider context
    • Support an organisation's agile transformation in the role of SAFe 5.0 program consultant
    • Help an organisation’s leadership explore next steps for their agile transformation journey
    • Facilitate agile events such as a Lean Coffee, PI Planning and problem solving workshops
Examples project experience
  • Project manager rollout - Project management and controlling of risk management governance implementation across 50 business units for a global insurance company
  • Scrum master, agile transformation coach - SAFe implementation in the Agile Release Train «Capacity Control” (development, operation, and training of  the Rail Control System RCS), coaching of the ART trio
  • Agile project manager - Agile project management for the implementation of a real estate IT platform at a global real estate market leader
  • Proxy product owner, scrum master - Definition, planning and prioritization of user stories for the implementation of new front- and backend solutions at an online car insurer. Moderation and execution of Scrum ceremonies and general SM activities
  • Agile project manager - Agile project management of a data onboarding project in the area of Commercial Insurance Data & Analytics with the aim of standardizing the process of providing country data
  • Proxy product owner, scrum master - Implementation of a new CRM system (PEGA) with a focus on billing functionalities and APIs at a leading telecommunications provider
  • Agile project manager - Agile project management of the pilot phase of a predictive customer analytics project at an international insurance company
  • Lead business analysis - Business analysis for the financial reporting project within a digital transformation program at an international insurance company
  • Trainer - SAFe 5.0 courses (Leading SAFe, SAFe for Teams, SAFe for Architects)

In case you would like to find out more about our services, feel free to contact us via: astrid.gygax[at]adfundum-consulting.ch