Technical Debt for CIOs Leads to Organizational Debt for CEOs

The Importance of a Post Mortem

“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident response plan…

AKF

September 6, 2018 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Expanding Agile Throughout

In our experience we have seen how Agile practices provide organizations within successful companies many benefits which is leading to more and more companies adopting frameworks…

AKF

September 6, 2018 · 3 min read

SaaS Organization Process

Migrating from a legacy product to a SaaS service? Don't make these mistakes!!

AKF has been kept quite busy over the last decade helping companies move from an on-premise product to a SaaS service - often one of the most difficult transitions a company can…

Dave Swenson

September 4, 2018 · 7 min read

Technical Diligence SaaS Process Product Security

Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”

Open Source Software (OSS) is an efficient means to building out solutions rapidly with high quality. You utilize crowdsourced design, development and validation to conveniently…

Larry Steinberg

August 21, 2018 · 2 min read

3 Practices Your Security Program Needs

AKF Partners has worked with over 400 companies in our history and we’ve seen a wide variety of both good and bad things. The rise of server virtualization, the spread…

Greg Fennewald

August 9, 2018 · 2 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

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

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The Importance of a Post Mortem

Expanding Agile Throughout

Migrating from a legacy product to a SaaS service? Don't make these mistakes!!

Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”

3 Practices Your Security Program Needs

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

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