Founder

AKADITI

Akaditi is an Agility (Agile) Services, Technology and Events Company Based in London (UK) and Accra (Ghana). We work closely with Scrum.org, ProKanban, Agile in Education, Red Team Thinking, PMI Africa and many more global strategic partners.

WHAT WE DO

We bring out the best in people and companies and we do it incredibly well using a range of Agile practices from Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP and Design Thinking, from the board room to the shop floor.

OUR SERVICES
We provide solutions that guide your journey towards improving your agility and managing change:
We focus on what we call the Twin Towers of Change. Business and Technology Change.
1. Agile Transformation (Consulting)
a. Agility Snapshot b. Capabilities Spotlight and c. Guided Improvement . We start with a quick review of what you currently have in place (Health check).
2. Kick off a new Team . Coach a single pilot team in fundamental Agile skills. We
can help also help you scale up to many teams (SPS – Nexus+)
3. Project Delivery
We turn around a failing project or kick-start a new one. Assurance / Delivery.
4. Scrum for Executives & Managers Enabling executives, directors and managers to understand their role in Organisational Agility. introduction to Agile & Scrum.

TECHNOLOGY

We take your idea and turn it into a POV (Proof of value) or POC (Proof of Concept) in our Soko Lab because we don’t believe in using Power Points, word, PDFs or any other documents to engage you.

• POV / POC: We bring your idea to life using a POV. We help create your fully working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that’s ready to drop into your customers smart phones or tablets. We are excited about Cloud, AWS, APIs, MicroServices, creating new platforms, laaS, PaaS, AaaS, SaaS, Open Source and other new and emerging technologies.

• Speed to value / market: We help take your ideas to market really quickly so you can get valuable feedback from your workers and customers. You decide if you want to develop the idea further or bin it.

• We own WorldSoko – A market facing Mobile Payment, Mobile Money and Mobile Commerce Company. We are creating a 21st Century Operating System for the African Market Place.

• Akaditi.com, WorldSoko and Soko Lab live on the Akaditi.net platform.

EVENTS
We organize and promote Scrum and Agile events in Africa and the UK,
1. The No 1 Agile Conference in Africa www.agileinafrica.com. This event includes XP Day & Scrum Day Africa….A Scrum in the Sun Event
2. Scrum Day London. www.scrumdaylondon.com in partnership with Scrum.org, ProKanban, Red Team Thinking Inc,
3. We are promoting World Scrum Day – a global event to promote and connect people doing or interested in Scrum.

Product Owner

NAME:
NANA BAMBARA-ABBAN

PROFILE:
Nana is a visionary, innovator and a possibility thinker.

He is a People, Business and Technology Developer and Professional with a passion for Ethical Leadership, Ubuntu, Red Team Thinking, Agility, Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Enterprise and life Coaching and Training. He loves writing and challenging people to become better humans. He created H2H (HUMAN2HUMAN), a global movement and way of thinking to connect humanity to Ubuntu…to develop better human beings.

Nana is the first approved Red Team Leader in Africa and the Red Team Practice Lead for Africa/Transformation. This is a major breakthrough for public sector security agencies and for private sector organisations across Africa that wish to lead in Africa and globally. Red Team Thinking is a game changer.

He has worked for over 20 years in management and leadership and held very senior consulting, programme management and executive positions in both the public security sector and in large private sector organisations globally, with substantial experience in leading and managing organisational transformations.

He is the Product Owner and CEO of Akaditi.com an agility services, events and technology company. The Akaditi Group owns SokoPay.com, Sokoshoper.com, Sokodelivery.com and Sikabank.com, mobile money, mobile payment, shopping, delivery and banking solutions of the future for Africa. Visit www.worldsoko.com and Nana is the founder and convener of Agile in Africa Conference www.agileinafrica.com (a yearly business and technology conference) held in Accra, Ghana and Scrum Day London www.scrumdaylondon.com (a yearly Scrum event) held in London, United Kingdom.

Nana’s Awards include Top 200 CIOs Global 2019, Dubai. KLM, Digital Scrum Studio 2019, a lifetime friend of KLM for exceptional transformation services. Ghana Police Service, CID Director Special Awards 2004 and many more awards.

Nana is really passionate about supporting and adopting Children in orphanages, he founded a charity to transform orphans into future leader.

He is also passionate about Organic, natural farming, Healing frequencies, Wellness, loves Polo sport, Motorbikes, Building and Restoring Land Rover Defenders vehicles and really enjoys Making work fun using Scrum (Agile). He also enjoys the Arts, Culture, African history, Animation, Robotics, Software Development, Wildlife and Nature, Star gazing, Space Travel and Life after the Digital Age.

He is a dreamer, a philosopher, he loves inspiring people and he loves Africa.