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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…

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The Role of the Business Analyst in Agile

Our clients often ask us the following question: “What is the role of the business analyst in Agile development?”

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10 Principles of Digital Transformations

AKF Partners has helped guide companies through digital transformations for over 10 years. We’ve helped traditional brick and mortar service, product, banking…

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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…

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Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

Transforming a traditional on-premises product and company to a SaaS model is currently in vogue and has many broad-reaching benefits for both producers and…

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Achieving Team Autonomy not Anarchy

Agile teams sometimes struggle with the meaning and value of autonomy within a team. Is it the autonomy to decide how best to accomplish a goal? Is it the…

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The Crippling Cost of Distractions

The Crippling Cost of Distractions Perhaps the biggest thief of progress is the misuse of time. Not talking about laziness here – I’m referring to what we…

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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…

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The Domino or Multiplicative Effect of Failure

As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review…

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Expanding Agile Throughout

In our experience we have seen how Agile practices provide organizations within successful companies many benefits which is leading to more and more companies…

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5 Focuses for a Better Security Culture

Security culture is one of the hardest aspects of security to get right. Unfortunately, it is also the most important thing for security that needs to be done…