Architecture
The Top 20 Mistakes in Technology
One of the most common questions we get asked is, “What are the most common technical failures you see development and product teams make?” To answer this…
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Technical Diligence
How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence
How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence
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…
Technical Diligence
Technical Debt
For over a decade, AKF has been on a number of engagements where we have seen technology organizations put off a large portion of engineering effort wrangling…
Product
Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology
The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are
Leadership
The Importance of QA
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker
Architecture
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…
Architecture
Scalability
The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability
Security
Tech Due Diligence - 5 Common Security Mistakes
In our technical due diligence reviews we conduct for investment firms, we see five common mistakes by both young startups and in well-seasoned companies…
Security
Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment
For many companies the thought of being audited is never a fun one. Especially when most audits are focused on documentation that is slow to react to an…
Architecture
Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures
In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a…
Leadership
Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful
Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful