Leadership
CEO Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance
What are Engineering Team Performance metrics?
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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1-10-100 rule in quality software development
What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control?
Process
CEO Guide to Quality Engineering
What is Quality Engineering?
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?
Organization
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…
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…
Architecture
Architectural Principles: Build vs. Buy
In many of our technical due diligence engagements, it is common to find that companies are building tools with considerable development effort (and ongoing…
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…
Process
Why Code Reviews Save Money and Time
Software engineers have likely heard of the studies that show how the cost of a defect increases by an order of magnitude for each successive phase. If you…
Architecture
Faster Time to Market – How to Avoid Overengineering (Rule 1)
Have you ever wondered how to achieve a faster time to market (TTM) for your product teams? Do you have a straightforward task, a personal project, or a team…