Category: leadership

CTO Hiring Checklist

Whether you are considering a fractional CTO, an interim CTO, a full time CTO, or you just want to “coach up” your current CTO this list is a good place to start to help you…

Marty Abbott

January 19, 2021 · 6 min read

Leadership Product

Barriers to Digital Transformations

Travel bans this year have freed up several days a month previously spent in transit to now work with a larger variety of clients, resulting in a greater sample size of common…

Pete Ferguson

October 21, 2020 · 7 min read

Leadership Process

A Strong Marriage with Agile and Product Management

A Strong Marriage with Agile and Product Management At AKF, we specialize in improving the scalability of digital product organizations. Two tenants of modern digital product organizations…

Phillip Seawright

September 25, 2020 · 1 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Image Used by Permission from StockSnap from PixabayThe importance of gross marginGross margin is a key business measure that should be regularly assessed as part of CTOs’and…

Tanya Cordrey

July 8, 2020 · 6 min read

SaaS Leadership

Cloud Software – Will I save costs? It’s all about Optionality and Time to Market

When we work with CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, we frequently get asked these questions:- Is moving to the cloud cheaper? - Are there real cost savings (of moving to the cloud)? - Can…

Phillip Seawright

May 12, 2020 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Safely Paying Down Technical Debt for CIOs

Synopsis: This is a post focused on technical debt for traditional IT, or for teams focused on solutions for internal employees. This post helps CIOs (leaders of IT teams - not…

Phillip Seawright

April 14, 2020 · 5 min read

Leadership Organization

Technical Debt for CIOs Leads to Organizational Debt for CEOs

Explanation of technical debt for CIOs of non-software product companies Digital product companies, primarily those companies that were built with the internet as the primary customer…

Phillip Seawright

March 31, 2020 · 3 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 · 6 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 dive…

AKF

March 3, 2020 · 1 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, small…

Marty Abbott

February 24, 2020 · 5 min read

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Category: leadership

CTO Hiring Checklist

Barriers to Digital Transformations

A Strong Marriage with Agile and Product Management

Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Cloud Software – Will I save costs? It’s all about Optionality and Time to Market

Safely Paying Down Technical Debt for CIOs

Technical Debt for CIOs Leads to Organizational Debt for CEOs

Four Types of Organization Cancer

AKF CTO Bootcamp and Architect Workshops in Scottsdale

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

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