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Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty

The Leap of FaithWhen we embark on building SaaS product that will delight customers we are taking a leap of faith. We often don’t even know whether or not the outcomes targeted…

Dave Berardi

· 5 min read

Marriage counseling for technology and business partners!

AKF often finds itself required to act as a marriage counselor trying to improve the relationship between technology and business ‘spouses’. In fact, we rarely find the relationship…

AKF

· 7 min read

SaaS Principles Part 2

Following our first article on the conflict between licensed products and SaaS solutions, we now present a necessary (but not always sufficient) list of SaaS operating principles.…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Managing Risk

The simplest definition of risk is the probability an incident occurs times the impact of the incident. The higher this number is, the higher the risk. With the identification…

AKF

· 3 min read

Tech Due Diligence - 5 Common Security Mistakes

In our technical due diligence reviews we conduct for investment firms, we see five common mistakes by both young startups and in well-seasoned companies alike:Lack of Security…

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment

For many companies the thought of being audited is never a fun one. Especially when most audits are focused on documentation that is slow to react to an ever-changing environment…

AKF

· 3 min read

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

Photo Credit: www.icomputerdenver.comAttempting to migrate on-premises, licensed products to a recurring revenue SaaS (XaaS) solution is perhaps one of the most difficult things…

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a fairly new upstart…

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

Multi-Tenant Defined

Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy.Most people have a definition in their mind for the term “multi-tenant”.…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization

Crossing the People Chasm Within Your OrganizationIn Geoffrey Moore’s book “Crossing the Chasm,” he argues there is a chasm between the early adopters of a product (the technology…

Pete Ferguson

· 5 min read

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

Enough is enough already – stop using the term “Cloud”. Somewhere during the last 20 years, the term “Cloud” started to mean to product offerings what Sriracha and Tabasco…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The No Surprises Rule

No SurprisesWe blogged recently about how to write precisely and concisely, highlighting how important it was to learn the “Three Sentence Rule” early in our careers…

AKF

· 3 min read

4 Landmines When Using Serverless Architecture

Physical Bare Metal, Virtualization, Cloud Compute, Containers, and now Serverless in your SaaS? We are starting to hear more and more about Serverless computing. Sometimes you…

Dave Berardi

· 2 min read

Do you know what is negatively affecting your engineers' productivity? Shouldn't you?

Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture seems to be extremely…

AKF

· 3 min read

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