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Product

Definition of MVP

We often use the term minimum viable product or MVP but do we all agree on what it means? In the Scrum spirt of Definition of Done, I believe the Definition of…

Architecture

Splitting Databases for Scale

The most common point of congestion and therefore barrier to scale that we see in our practice is the database. Referring back to our earlier article…

Architecture

What Size Should Microservices Be?

It seems that everyone is on the microservice architecture bus these days (splits by the Y axis on the AKF Scale Cube). One question we commonly receive as…

Process

PDLC or SDLC

As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given…

Organization

AKF Turns 10 – And It’s Still Not About the Tech

The caller ID was blocked but Marty had been expecting the call. Three “highly connected” people – donors, political advisers and “inner circle” people – had…

Organization

AKF Interim Leadership Case Study

Read about one of our success stories in which we filled an interim CTO role at a marketing subscription company in New York.