CEO Guide to DevOps

Adaptive product teams: Beware the one-size- fits-all approach

Image Credit: AzoraArashi Flckr ‘As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg’, – Clay…

Tanya Cordrey

March 7, 2020 · 5 min read

Product

Faster Time to Market – How to Avoid Overengineering (Rule 1)

Have you ever wondered how to achieve a faster time to market (TTM) for your product teams? Do you have a straightforward task, a personal project, or a team project, that is taking…

AKF

March 5, 2020 · 9 min read

Leadership Organization

Four Types of Organization Cancer

I’m a cancer survivor. Not the kind of biological cancer that took both my grandfathers and has affected many of my friends and family, but the evil and malicious cancer that…

Pete Ferguson

March 5, 2020 · 7 min read

Leadership

AKF CTO Bootcamp and Architect Workshops in Scottsdale

AKF Partners Workshops in Scottsdale AKF Partners will offer two different workshops in our Scottsdale office later this year. The first is our CTO Bootcamp, a 3 day deep…

AKF

March 3, 2020 · 1 min read

Microservices

Microservice vs Monolith...that is the Question

There seems to be a growing movement online fighting against microservices. The movement itself shouldn’t alarm anyone, such backlash is common with the adoption of any…

Marty Abbott

March 3, 2020 · 5 min read

Leadership Organization

Effective Team Communications – Speak with Precision and Accuracy (and Avoid Mouth Turds)

There are many reasons why startups represent the vast majority (virtually all) of the disruptive innovation in the US specifically and the world broadly. The culture, drive,…

Marty Abbott

February 24, 2020 · 5 min read

Architecture

AKF Availability Cube

The AKF Availability Cube is a model to guide discussions on how to achieve high availability, as well as a tool to evaluate the theoretical “as designed” availability…

Marty Abbott

February 7, 2020 · 4 min read

AKF Partners Announces European Expansion

AKF Partners started its life nearly 13 years ago with a focus, passion and construction unlike any other consulting firm. We are a business-first consultancy, staffed not by life-long…

Marty Abbott

January 6, 2020 · 1 min read

Microservices

Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts of the BFF Pattern

Backend for Frontend Overview In the Backend for Frontend pattern, a service (“the backend”) serves as a termination point for a requesting interface (“the frontend”). …

Marty Abbott

November 6, 2019 · 4 min read

Process

The Best Definition of Done for Agile

Many of our clients struggle with ensuring that the solutions they create meet the needs of both their business and their customers. The exact symptoms of the above failure…

Marty Abbott

October 24, 2019 · 5 min read

Process

The 5-95 Rule

The Problem – Too Much Planning, Too Little Execution How many of you spend a significant portion of your year planning for the next year, two years, or five years of activities? …

Marty Abbott

September 26, 2019 · 4 min read

Leadership Process Product

Focus Versus Agility in Business, Product Management and Product Development

Two of the most common statements we hear from our clients are: Business: “Our product and engineering teams lack the agility to quickly pivot to the needs of the business”.…

Marty Abbott

September 16, 2019 · 4 min read

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Adaptive product teams: Beware the one-size- fits-all approach

Faster Time to Market – How to Avoid Overengineering (Rule 1)

Four Types of Organization Cancer

AKF CTO Bootcamp and Architect Workshops in Scottsdale

Microservice vs Monolith...that is the Question

Effective Team Communications – Speak with Precision and Accuracy (and Avoid Mouth Turds)

AKF Availability Cube

AKF Partners Announces European Expansion

Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts of the BFF Pattern

The Best Definition of Done for Agile

The 5-95 Rule

Focus Versus Agility in Business, Product Management and Product Development

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