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Technical Diligence

M&A Tech Diligence: Identifying Innovation

Technology due diligence is often viewed through the lens of risk identification, focusing on uncovering technical debt, security vulnerabilities, or outdated…

Artificial Intelligence

AI/ML in M&A: Potential vs. Pitfalls

For firms focused on technology-driven acquisitions, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are becoming central to evaluating the potential of…

Process

Assessing Agile Product Development Processes - Part 1

While it’s common these days for companies to claim that they follow an Agile development lifecycle, it is uncommon for companies to measure and evaluate the…

Organization

Why True Product Companies Succeed While Others Fail

One of the things I love about working at AKF Partners is the wide variety of clients we get to work with. We assist everyone from young startups, where the…

Architecture

Estimating Availability - Four 9s is the Ceiling

Our updated Availability Risk Model identified many risk drivers. The Risk tree showed components, but not the math to estimate downtime. We will highlight…

Architecture

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime. With the…