Process
CEO Guide to Agile
What is Agile? Agile has different meanings to different audiences. For the majority of customers, Agile applies to the development of digital products or…
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Process
1-10-100 rule in quality software development
What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control?
Product
The Technology Adoption Life Cycle and Sticky Notes [The Formula to Quickly Reach The Right Market]
In one of the worst quotes in American history (followed closely by every popular quote from a Marvel character), Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
Process
Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure
Over the last decade or so, I have seen a reemergence of the dreaded “business analyst”. These folks were the wait-staff of the waterfall lifecycle, taking…
Process
Why story points and velocity really matter
Recently, we have come across many teams that are not using story points and team velocity to track progress through the sprint.
Organization
WTF are your employees doing all day? Are you really ready to move to Agile?
How many hours are a day are your employees in front of a computer? On their smart phone doing work?
Product
Top ten product discovery mistakes: How product teams get continuous discovery wrong
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Process
Change Management in a Continuous Delivery World
One way to create a "stable" service is to limit the number of changes made to the system. Limiting change may improve stability, but it may also limit the…
PDLC
What IS Agile - and What Agile is NOT
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Product
Key skills for adaptive product teams
There is growing recognition for the need for adaptive product teams.. The process of delivering software may be very similar across almost all companies but…
Architecture
Scalability Rules - How to Simplify Scope, Design, and Implementation (Rule 3)
Do you ever feel like the work you are involved in is too chaotic or that products take too long to deliver? We have an answer. Today we will share Rule 3 of…
Architecture
The DID Process - Scale Design Principles (Rule 2)
One of the questions we are often asked is when do I scale my company? When setting out to build a product, there is a lot to learn and figure out. Scale is…