Why story points and velocity really matter

Monitoring the Good, the Bad, the Ugly for Improved Fault Detection

AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often provide early warning…

AKF

July 8, 2018 · 5 min read

Leadership Organization Process Product

Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty

The Leap of Faith When we embark on building SaaS product that will delight customers we are taking a leap of faith. We often don’t even know whether or not the outcomes targeted…

Dave Berardi

July 8, 2018 · 5 min read

Leadership Organization

Marriage counseling for technology and business partners!

AKF often finds itself required to act as a marriage counselor trying to improve the relationship between technology and business ‘spouses’. In fact, we rarely find the relationship…

AKF

July 8, 2018 · 7 min read

SaaS Product

SaaS Principles Part 2

Following our first article on the conflict between licensed products and SaaS solutions, we now present a necessary (but not always sufficient) list of SaaS operating principles. …

Marty Abbott

June 29, 2018 · 6 min read

Security

Managing Risk

The simplest definition of risk is the probability an incident occurs times the impact of the incident. The higher this number is, the higher the risk. With the identification…

AKF

June 29, 2018 · 3 min read

Technical Diligence Security

Tech Due Diligence - 5 Common Security Mistakes

In our technical due diligence reviews we conduct for investment firms, we see five common mistakes by both young startups and in well-seasoned companies alike: Lack of Security…

Pete Ferguson

June 28, 2018 · 2 min read

Security

Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment

For many companies the thought of being audited is never a fun one. Especially when most audits are focused on documentation that is slow to react to an ever-changing environment…

AKF

June 26, 2018 · 4 min read

SaaS

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

Photo Credit: www.icomputerdenver.com Attempting to migrate on-premise, licensed products to a recurring revenue SaaS (XaaS) solution is perhaps one of the most difficult things…

Marty Abbott

June 22, 2018 · 8 min read

Architecture

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a fairly new…

Pete Ferguson

June 18, 2018 · 3 min read

Architecture SaaS

Multi-Tenant Defined

Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy. Most people have a definition in their mind for the term “multi-tenant”. …

Marty Abbott

June 11, 2018 · 4 min read

Technical Diligence

Technology Due Diligence Checklist [Updated 2020]

In 2018, AKF Partners shared a list of questions we used to conduct technical due diligence engagements for our clients. It proved to be popular and continues to be one of…

Greg Fennewald

June 6, 2018 · 7 min read

Organization

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization In Geoffrey Moore’s book “Crossing the Chasm,” he argues there is a chasm between the early adopters of a product (the…

Pete Ferguson

June 6, 2018 · 5 min read

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Monitoring the Good, the Bad, the Ugly for Improved Fault Detection

Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty

Marriage counseling for technology and business partners!

SaaS Principles Part 2

Managing Risk

Tech Due Diligence - 5 Common Security Mistakes

Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

Multi-Tenant Defined

Technology Due Diligence Checklist [Updated 2020]

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization

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