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:
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Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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Architecture
Evaluating Technology Risk Using Mathematics
The Relative Risk Equation
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
How to write concisely
The Three Sentence Rule
Security
Security Considerations for Technical Due Diligence
It seems as though a week cannot go by without news reports of yet another data breach at a large, recognizable company. One wonders what has been compromised…
Architecture
Microservices for Breadth, Libraries for Depth
The decomposition of monoliths into services, or alternatively the development of new products in a services-oriented fashion (oftentimes called…
Leadership
Technical Due Diligence: Did We Get It Right
Technical Due Diligence: Did We get it Right?
Artificial Intelligence
Societal Consequences of the Uber Autonomous Vehicle Death
It is sad and unfortunate, but the inevitable has finally happened; we’ve suffered our first death from an autonomous vehicle.
SaaS
SaaS Migration Challenges
More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS,…
Technical Diligence
Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence
You should not buy a home without an inspection by a licensed home inspector and you should not buy a used car without having a mechanic check it out for you.…
Product
Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather
If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat.…
Technical Diligence
Technical Due Diligence Best Practices
Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that…