Leadership
The Importance of a Post Mortem
“An incident is a terrible thing to waste” is a common mantra that AKF repeats during its Engagements. And rightfully so as many companies have an incident…
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Process
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Organization
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…
Process
Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty
The Leap of Faith
Process
Do you know what is negatively affecting your engineers' productivity? Shouldn't you?
Meetings, meetings, meetings. How many times have we said that? Visiting dozens and dozens of clients per year, we see a number of customers whose culture…
Process
The Top Five Most Common Agile PDLC Failures
Agile Software Development is a widely adopted methodology, and for good reason. When implemented properly, Agile can bring tremendous efficiencies, enabling…
Organization
Achieving Results, Culture, and the AKF Equation
We can tell a lot about a company within the first hour or so of any discussion. Consider the following statement fragments:
Organization
Avoiding the Policy Black Hole
During due diligence and in-depth engagements, we often hear feedback from client employees that policies either do not exist - or are not followed.
Leadership
There Are Always Plenty of Incidents from Which To Learn
Sorry, False Alarm...
Process
Engineering Metrics
A topic that often results in great debate is “how to measure engineers?” I’m a pretty data driven guy so I’m a fan of metrics as long as they are 1) measured…
Process
PDLC or SDLC
As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given…