Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Putting Customer Interaction First in Software Development

Eat Your Own Dog Food Eating your own dog food is a common phrase that is cynical from the start – unless you like eating dog food! A more positive, but often overused cliche,…

Pete Ferguson

November 1, 2018 · 7 min read

Process

A Financial Analogy for Technical Debt

Understanding Technical Debt During the course of our client engagements, there are a few common topics or themes that are always discussed, and the clients themselves usually…

Bill Armelin

October 12, 2018 · 8 min read

Cloud Security Misconceptions

Cloud hosting is growing rapidly, with many companies leveraging the cloud to deliver all or a portion of their products and services. This trend is unlikely to change any…

Greg Fennewald

September 19, 2018 · 3 min read

Organization Process

The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure

As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review their org chart. …

Pete Ferguson

September 18, 2018 · 6 min read

Organization Process

Effective Incident Communications

Everything fails! This is a mantra that we are always espousing at AKF. At some point, these failures will manifest themselves as an outage. In a SaaS world, restoring service…

Bill Armelin

September 17, 2018 · 4 min read

Technical Diligence Leadership Process Product Security

Are you compromised?

It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve infiltrated an environment.…

Larry Steinberg

September 14, 2018 · 2 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process

Scalability

The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability Perhaps the most common question we get at AKF Partners when performing technical due diligence on a company is, “Will…

AKF

September 10, 2018 · 6 min read

Process

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…