Artificial Intelligence
CEO’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
AI, ML … what does all this mean?
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Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Architecture
Communicate Asynchronously As Much As Possible
Organizations aim to achieve the best technology designs in their systems as well as provide the most optimal customer experiences. Sometimes however,…
Organization
How will an Interim CTO benefit my product and engineering team?
Absent a CTO that knows how to lead and operate a product engineering shop, the team’s ability to innovate at an acceptable velocity is unlikely. The Chief…
Technical Diligence
Technical Due Diligence Checklist: a Step Deeper
One of the most viewed articles on the AKF Partners website is Technology Due Diligence Checklists. That post is based on a tool we use during technical due…
Organization
Use the ADKAR change management framework to transform your organization, teams, and individuals
“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.” - John Maxwell
Organization
Full Stack Engineers vs. Full Stack (Cross-Functional) Teams
We run into this less frequently but still find large, mature companies entrenched with the idea that every developer must be “full stack.” This “master of all…
Process
CEO Guide to Incident and Problem Management
What is Incident Management? We define Incident Management as:
CEO Guides
CEO Guide to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
What is Site Reliability Engineering?
Leadership
A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 2: Lead with OKRs, not features and dates!
Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective…
Leadership
A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 4: Foundational Technical Concepts for CEOs
Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective…
Leadership
A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 3: Creating Engineering Transparency
Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective…
Leadership
A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 1: Casting A Spell
Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEOs it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective…