Full Stack Engineers vs. Full Stack (Cross-Functional) Teams

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

Photo Credit: www.icomputerdenver.comAttempting to migrate on-premises, 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 upstart…

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 2021]

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 the…

Greg Fennewald

June 6, 2018 · 7 min read

Organization

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization

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

Pete Ferguson

June 6, 2018 · 5 min read

SaaS Product

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

Enough is enough already – stop using the term “Cloud”. Somewhere during the last 20 years, the term “Cloud” started to mean to product offerings what Sriracha and Tabasco…

Marty Abbott

June 5, 2018 · 3 min read

Leadership

The No Surprises Rule

No SurprisesWe blogged recently about how to write precisely and concisely, highlighting how important it was to learn the “Three Sentence Rule” early in our careers…

AKF

May 23, 2018 · 3 min read

Architecture

4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture

Physical Bare Metal, Virtualization, Cloud Compute, Containers, and now Serverless in your SaaS? We are starting to hear more and more about Serverless computing. Sometimes you…

Dave Berardi

May 20, 2018 · 2 min read

Do you know what is negatively affecting your engineers' productivity? Shouldn't you?

Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture seems to be extremely…

AKF

May 13, 2018 · 3 min read

Leadership Process

Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful

Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful At AKF Partners, we have the unique opportunity to see trends among startups and well-established companies in the dozens…

Pete Ferguson

May 10, 2018 · 5 min read

Organization Process

Enabling TTM With Contributor Model Teams

Enabling TTM With Contributor Model Teams We often speak about the benefits of aligning agile teams with the system’s architecture. As Conway’s Law describes, product/solution…

Dave Berardi

May 6, 2018 · 3 min read

SaaS

The Problem with Non-Functional Requirements

Image CreditMany of our clients use the term “Non-Functional Requirements” to group into a basket those portions of their solution that don’t easily fit into method or function-based…

Marty Abbott

May 4, 2018 · 3 min read

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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 2021]

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

The No Surprises Rule

4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture

Do you know what is negatively affecting your engineers' productivity? Shouldn't you?

Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful

Enabling TTM With Contributor Model Teams

The Problem with Non-Functional Requirements

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