Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Many of our clients put in place OKRs to link their long term strategy to delivery. OKRs are Objectives and Key Results, or in AKF language 'Outcomes' and Key…
Making the transition from Management activities to Leadership activities is a challenge we see many engineering managers struggle with as they climb the…
Navigating the evolution from Engineering Manager to Engineering Executive is challenging; the need to broaden organizational influence and interface with more…
In M&A tech diligence, the focus often centers on evaluating the technical stack and code quality of the target company. While these are important, they are…
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, innovation and agility are crucial. Companies are constantly racing to release software products that meet market…
Keli Korducki’s Atlantic article “So Much for Learn to Code” and Farhad Majoo’s New York Times opinion piece “It’s the End of Computer Programming as we Know…
By now if you haven’t been drawn into the soap opera that has been OpenAI, you’ve clearly been disconnected from any sort of media or you’ve recently returned…
We are often brought in to evaluate technical architecture as part of technical due diligence for investors, board members, and executive leadership. One of…
With the evolution of distributed architectures, we see many clients who have taken the idea of autonomy to something that is closer to anarchy. Rightfully so,…
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are becoming cornerstones for business operational efficiency and innovation. For technology and business…
Staff Augmentation is a common approach to managing engineering capacity more flexibly than relying 100% on full-time employees. However, the approach to staff…
Absent a CTO that knows how to lead and operate a product engineering shop, the team’s ability to innovate at an acceptable velocity is unlikely. The Chief…
