Organization
CTO Hiring Checklist
Whether you are considering a fractional CTO, an interim CTO, a full time CTO, or you just want to “coach up” your current CTO this list is a good place to…
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Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Product
Product team checklist for aligning product management and engineering
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Organization
Barriers to Digital Transformations
Travel bans this year have freed up several days a month previously spent in transit to now work with a larger variety of clients, resulting in a greater…
Product
Top ten product discovery mistakes: How product teams get continuous discovery wrong
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Architecture
Microservices Architecture Gateway Pattern - Dos and Don'ts
Gateway Pattern Relationships and Other Names
Leadership
Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins
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Process
Change Management in a Continuous Delivery World
One way to create a "stable" service is to limit the number of changes made to the system. Limiting change may improve stability, but it may also limit the…
Leadership
Cloud Software – Will I save costs? It’s all about Optionality and Time to Market
When we work with CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, we frequently get asked these questions:
PDLC
What IS Agile - and What Agile is NOT
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Architecture
Scalability Rules - Reduce Objects to Improve Website Performance (Rule 5)
Every wonder what really makes a website tick? Or why some sites seem slower or faster than expected? Well, rest assured, there are straight-forward answers.…
Leadership
Safely Paying Down Technical Debt for CIOs
Synopsis: This is a post focused on technical debt for traditional IT, or for teams focused on solutions for internal employees. This post helps CIOs (leaders…
Architecture
What are Microservices?
Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just…