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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

· 8 min read

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

· 4 min read

Top 3 Failures in Digital Transformations

Attempting to transform a company to compete effectively in the Digital Economy is difficult to say the least. In the experience of AKF Partners, it is easier to be “born digital”…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

What is Digital Transformation?

For many years after the introduction of the automobile, most industries benefited from somewhat static and predictable secular forces. Nascent technology forces primarily aided…

AKF

· 4 min read

Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology

The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are Product Technology Due DiligenceInformation Technology, or IT, Due Diligence.Both types are very…

Roger Andelin

· 4 min read

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

VMs vs ContainersInefficiency and down time have traditionally kept CTO’s and IT decision makers up at night. Now, new challenges are emerging driven by infrastructure inflexibility…

Eric Arrington

· 8 min read

Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

Have you ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs & technologist…

AKF

· 4 min read

What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Time it takes to boil an egg: 720,000 millisecondsAverage time in line at the supermarket: 240,000 millisecondsTime it takes to brush your teeth: 120,000 millisecondsTime it takes…

Eric Arrington

· 8 min read

The AKF Difference

During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we consider hiring you?”,…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The Importance of QA

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter DruckerThe Importance of QAHigh levels of quality are essential…

AKF

· 7 min read

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.…

AKF

· 2 min read

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…

AKF

· 2 min read

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 buyer…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The Phases of SaaS Grief

Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS),…

Marty Abbott

· 10 min read

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