SaaS
SaaS Migration Challenges
More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS,…
Growth Blog
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Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Technical Diligence
Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence
You should not buy a home without an inspection by a licensed home inspector and you should not buy a used car without having a mechanic check it out for you.…
Product
Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather
If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat.…
Technical Diligence
Technical Due Diligence Best Practices
Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that…
Leadership
There Are Always Plenty of Incidents from Which To Learn
Sorry, False Alarm...
Architecture
Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It
The Law that Almost Wasn’t
Organization
Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development
In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses…
Security
Forget about North Korea's Nukes - the PRNK Is Engaged in Cyber Warfare against Your Company
North Korea’s recent antics involving ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons are scary. While we seem to be edging ever closer to nuclear war – closer perhaps…
Big Data
How to Reduce Crime in Big Cities
I’m a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Gladwell’s ability to convey complex concepts and virtually incomprehensible academic research in easily understood prose is…
Artificial Intelligence
How an AI bot beat the world's best gamers
Last month, a bot developed by OpenAI (co-founded by Elon Musk) beat the world’s best, pro Dota 2 players. This is another milestone accomplishment in the…
Organization
What Google Got Right and Wrong with Firing James Damore
We have a saying in AKF Partners that “an incident is a terrible thing to waste”. When things go poorly in a firm, stakeholders (shareholders, partners,…
Organization
The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Tech
We all suffer from various cognitive biases, those mental filters or lenses that alter or warp the reality around us. With the election of 2016, one particular…