CEO Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance

SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The movement to SaaS specifically, and more broadly “Anything” (X) as a Service (XaaS) is driven by demand side (buyer) forces. In early cases within any industry, the…

Marty Abbott

August 2, 2018 · 5 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

The Phases of SaaS Grief

Over a decade of helping on-premise and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS),…

Marty Abbott

July 24, 2018 · 11 min read

AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis

Contemplating how to scale your website is not often a paramount concern in the early days when the focus is on time to market and core functionality. Growth over time will…

Greg Fennewald

July 24, 2018 · 3 min read

Security

5 Focuses for a Better Security Culture

Security culture is one of the hardest aspects of security to get right. Unfortunately, it is also the most important thing for security that needs to be done right. …

AKF

July 13, 2018 · 6 min read

Technical Diligence Leadership Organization Process

People Due Diligence

Most companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, dealmakers simply miss or underestimate the significance of people…

AKF

July 12, 2018 · 4 min read

SaaS Product

Factors Driving SaaS and XaaS Adoption

XaaS (e.g. SaaS, PaaS) mass-market adoption is largely a demand-side “pull” of a product through the Technology Adoption Lifecycle (TALC). One of the best books describing…

Marty Abbott

July 12, 2018 · 6 min read

Architecture Process

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

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SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The Phases of SaaS Grief

AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis

5 Focuses for a Better Security Culture

People Due Diligence

Factors Driving SaaS and XaaS Adoption

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

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