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Architecture
Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It
The Law that Almost Wasn’t
Organization
Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development
In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses…
Security
Forget about North Korea's Nukes - the PRNK Is Engaged in Cyber Warfare against Your Company
North Korea’s recent antics involving ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons are scary. While we seem to be edging ever closer to nuclear war – closer perhaps…
Big Data
How to Reduce Crime in Big Cities
I’m a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Gladwell’s ability to convey complex concepts and virtually incomprehensible academic research in easily understood prose is…
Artificial Intelligence
How an AI bot beat the world's best gamers
Last month, a bot developed by OpenAI (co-founded by Elon Musk) beat the world’s best, pro Dota 2 players. This is another milestone accomplishment in the…
Organization
What Google Got Right and Wrong with Firing James Damore
We have a saying in AKF Partners that “an incident is a terrible thing to waste”. When things go poorly in a firm, stakeholders (shareholders, partners,…
Organization
The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Tech
We all suffer from various cognitive biases, those mental filters or lenses that alter or warp the reality around us. With the election of 2016, one particular…
Organization
Where have all the Women gone?
We hear every day that more and more jobs are disappearing, yet the technology job sector cannot keep up with the unprecedented demand. So why are women…
Architecture
Monitoring for Early Fault Detection
AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often…
Architecture
Scalability Workshops
AKF Scalability WorkshopPhoenix Feb 7 - 8, 2018! Register Now for our next workshop! Workshop Overview Our workshop is designed for technology executives who…
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…