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Technical Due Diligence Checklist: a Step Deeper

One of the most viewed articles on the AKF Partners website is Technology Due Diligence Checklists. That post is based on a tool we use during technical due diligence engagements.…

Greg Fennewald

· 5 min read

Use the ADKAR change management framework to transform your organization, teams, and individuals

“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.” - John Maxwell Organizational transformations are difficult. They are difficult because…

Phillip Seawright

· 7 min read

Full Stack Engineers vs. Full Stack (Cross-Functional) Teams

We run into this less frequently but still find large, mature companies entrenched with the idea that every developer must be “full stack.” This “master of all trades”…

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

CEO Guide to Incident and Problem Management

What is Incident Management? We define Incident Management as: "A process discipline addressing how an organization reacts to incidents affecting customer experience, quality of…

Heather Abbott

· 8 min read

CEO Guide to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a set of principles and practices that applies application development approaches to infrastructure…

Heather Abbott

· 8 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 4: Foundational Technical Concepts for CEOs

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their…

Roger Andelin

· 9 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 3: Creating Engineering Transparency

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their…

Roger Andelin

· 7 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 2: Lead with OKRs, not features and dates!

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their…

Roger Andelin

· 6 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 1: Casting A Spell

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEOs it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their…

Roger Andelin

· 6 min read

To ORM or Not to ORM: Do we keep it or replace it?

We have many clients that have chosen to use Object-Relational Mapping, or ORM, to abstract the database and subsequent writing of SQL statements from engineers. We advise our…

Bill Armelin

· 4 min read

A Basic Guide to Marketing Metrics for CTOs: What They Are and Why You Need Them

I am not a marketer, but I have been married to one for the last 20 years. In fact, for a good majority of those years, we worked together. Me running engineering, and my husband…

Victoria Wisot

· 7 min read

CEO Guide to DevOps

What is DevOps? DevOps is a cultural philosophy and set of practices that breaks down functional silos between software Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops). Historically these…

Heather Abbott

· 7 min read

Failing to Design for Rollback Is Designing for Failure

Shoulder pads were in, Reagan just became president, and "Back to the Future" was released in the theaters. 1985 will be remembered for many reasons, but for the Coca-Cola company,…

Victoria Wisot

· 5 min read

Single Points Of Failure: Never Trust and Always Avoid

“There are an estimated 12 million to 24 million ecommerce websites in the world. Nearly 60% of American consumers prefer to shop online. U.S. consumers spend, on average, more…

StephRene Forbes

· 4 min read

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