Ahmet Akal

February 10, 2008

Business Process & Technology Management Expert in Financial Services, Logistics & Supply Chain, Retail IT. Cross functional and Global Leader in diversified industries. Process Mining expert.
U.S. Bank
Assistant Vice President
Business Process Management (BPM)
Agile Business Analysis (ABA)
Analytics/Big Data
Application Protocol Interface (API)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Business Architecture (BA)
Business Decision Management (BDM) / Business Rules (BR)
Business Process Management (BPM)
Cloud Computing
Customer Experience
Design Thinking
Digital Decisioning and Analytics (DDAP)
Internet of Things (IoT)
Mobile/Social
Operational Excellence (OPEX)
Organizational Change Management (OCM)
Robotic Processing Automation (RPA)
Web Services / SOA

Articles by: Ahmet Akal

Look How Far I Have Come: An Agile Journey

Look How Far I Have Come: An Agile Journey

Author(s):

Ahmet Akal
Assistant Vice President, U.S. Bank

Have I grabbed your attention? Yes, ‘Look How Far I Have Come’ is a song title from the renowned Broadway Musical, Hamilton, but it is also a phrase used by many of us to highlight or showcase their careers and their life progression.

An example perhaps is “I am the CIO now, and this did not happen overnight. Look how far I have come.” In IT, this is used in a similar fashion. From legacy systems, even before, to today—it’s human nature. Look how far we have come, and where we have come from. We were once students getting in line at the University’s computer science dept’ to punch cards for a lousy Fortran IV application, which may have been for a homework or for a midterm/final, and  now we drag and drop to put together an app or a UI (a GUI) for iOS or Android. A huge progress, a long journey (not that long ago actually), on our path to excellence, right?

Agility in Requirements Gathering

Agility in Requirements Gathering

Author(s):

Ahmet Akal
Assistant Vice President, U.S. Bank

Requirements gathering should be done mindfully. Then there is this world we are living in, which requires agility, right? Well, can mindfulness and agile be imagined together? Once you can imagine this your requirements will be solid and done right, and you will obtain agility. Your sign-offs will be also achieved smoothly. It won’t stop there. Development, unit testing, functional testing and UAT will be smooth as well, including your org readiness efforts, along with your usage uptake and learning experience. Does this sound like it is out of this world, or in Utopia as most of us know this is not a very easy thing to achieve?

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