Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Teams
Showing 12 of 42 articles — Clear filter
Product
Product team checklist for aligning product management and engineering
Image Used by Permission from Photo by Joshua Coleman on Unsplash
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…
Organization
Adaptive product teams: Beware the one-size- fits-all approach
Image Credit: AzoraArashi Flckr
Leadership
Effective Team Communications – Speak with Precision and Accuracy (and Avoid Mouth Turds)
There are many reasons why startups represent the vast majority (virtually all) of the disruptive innovation in the US specifically and the world broadly. The…
Organization
Hiring the Right Employees
Running a technology company is a challenging endeavor. Not only are consumers demands changing daily, the technology to deliver upon those demands is…
Organization
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?”
Leadership
If You Are Not Measuring, You Are Not Managing
We are surprised at how often we go into a client and find that management does not have any metrics for their teams. The managers respond that they don’t want…
Organization
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…
Process
Diagnosing and Fixing Software Development Performance
Diagnosing the cause of poor performance from your engineering team is difficult and can be costly for the organization if done incorrectly. Most everyone will…
Organization
People Due Diligence
Most companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, dealmakers simply miss or underestimate the…
Organization
Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization
Crossing the People Chasm Within Your Organization