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Necessary But Insufficient Security Reviews From a security perspective, tech product companies far too often focus solely on various ISO and/or NIST audits to help inform their…
Marty Abbott
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. Yet somehow…
Pete Ferguson
Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that companies evaluate…
Sorry, False Alarm… On January 13, 2018, what felt like an episode of Netflix’s “Black Mirror” unfolded in real life. Just after 8 in the morning, residents and visitors…
Dave Swenson
The Law that Almost Wasn’t Conway’s law had a rather precarious beginning. Harvard Business Review rejected Conway’s thesis, buried as it was in the 43d paragraph of…
In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses enroute to optimal productivity. …
Bill Armelin
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 than any…
I’m a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Gladwell’s ability to convey complex concepts and virtually incomprehensible academic research in easily understood prose is second to none…
Everyone was saddened to see the horrific destruction storms caused to Houston and Florida, including deaths and extensive property damage. It seems reasonable that the impact…
Greg Fennewald
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 field of artificial…
Roger Andelin
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, employees) pay…
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 bias has gained…
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