Process

The Top Five Most Common Agile PDLC Failures

Agile Software Development is a widely adopted methodology, and for good reason. When implemented properly, Agile can bring tremendous efficiencies, enabling your teams to move…

Dave Swenson

April 27, 2018 · 4 min read

Process

Evaluating Technology Risk Using Mathematics

The Relative Risk EquationTechnologists are frequently asked: what are the chances that a given software release is going to work? Do we understand the risk that each…

AKF

April 23, 2018 · 4 min read

Process

Avoiding the Policy Black Hole

During due diligence and in-depth engagements, we often hear feedback from client employees that policies either do not exist - or are not followed.All too often we see policies…

Pete Ferguson

April 18, 2018 · 15 min read

Architecture SaaS Leadership Organization Process Product

SaaS Migration Challenges

More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS, agile world. SaaS…

Dave Swenson

March 12, 2018 · 6 min read

Technical Diligence Process

Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence

You should not buy a home without an inspection by a licensed home inspector and you should not buy a used car without having a mechanic check it out for you. Diligence - it just…

Greg Fennewald

February 20, 2018 · 6 min read

Process

Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather

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 many…

Pete Ferguson

February 7, 2018 · 3 min read

Leadership Process

There Are Always Plenty of Incidents from Which To Learn

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

January 13, 2018 · 4 min read

Process

Monitoring for Early 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 6, 2017 · 2 min read

Organization Process

Engineering Metrics

A topic that often results in great debate is “how to measure engineers?” I’m a pretty data driven guy so I’m a fan of metrics as long as they are 1) measured correctly…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 3 min read

Organization Process

PDLC or SDLC

As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given for this are software…

AKF

April 3, 2017 · 2 min read

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Process

The Top Five Most Common Agile PDLC Failures

Evaluating Technology Risk Using Mathematics

Avoiding the Policy Black Hole

SaaS Migration Challenges

Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence

Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather

There Are Always Plenty of Incidents from Which To Learn

Monitoring for Early Fault Detection

Engineering Metrics

PDLC or SDLC

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