Team Dynamics - Affective and Cognitive Conflict
I’m guessing that it wouldn’t surprise you to find out that the worst performing teams are in constant conflict. But what if I were to tell you that the…
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
I’m guessing that it wouldn’t surprise you to find out that the worst performing teams are in constant conflict. But what if I were to tell you that the…
WHAT IS A MONOLITH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ITS IMPACT TO THE BUSINESS? You may have noticed your engineering teams are too slow or your CTO has…
What is Innovation?
One of the most concerning trends we’ve seen lately is the nearly complete elimination of architecture teams. We’ve unfortunately seen several clients go down…
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…
What is Technical Debt and how does it relate to overall application health?
Visit 100 websites and 100 companies and you’ll find neither a consistent definition nor a consistent implementation for Product Operations. As Marty Cagan…
This post is intended for CEOs, COOs, Presidents or CPTOs (Chief Product and Technology Officers) of companies that build software products for revenue and who…
What is an Interim CTO?
What are Microservices?
What is the Public Cloud?
This is the second part in a multi-part series on platform engineering, and platform product management.