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CEO Guide to Agile
What is Agile? Agile has different meanings to different audiences. For the majority of customers, Agile applies to the development of digital products or…
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Microservice Architecture Principle: One or Zero Databases Per Service
This post is a deeper dive on the AKF Microservice Architecture Principle “One or Zero Databases per Service”. The Predicates Microservice and…
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CEO Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance
What are Engineering Team Performance metrics? To CEO’s, especially those with a non-technical background, the Engineering organization can be a bit of a…
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Security anti-pattern: Gatekeeper – i.e. Department of “No”
This is the second in a multi-part series on information security anti-patterns. Too often in our technical due diligence and workshop engagements we…
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Crisis Response - Practice like its Game Time
There is a ubiquitous saying “never let a crisis go to waste” which has been applied across many fields and topics. While some may regard a crisis as an…
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Security Anti-Pattern: Checklist Compliance
This article is the first in a multi-part series on information security anti-patterns. I recall well when I first started out in physical security and the…
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Microservice Architecture Principles
When product and engineering teams are small and tight knit, they often share an unspoken and undocumented set of principles that guide their development. The…
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Leadership Anti-Pattern: Victim Mentality
Please consider the context, disparity in power, and in all but one case (as of the writing of this post) the outcomes associated with the following…
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1-10-100 rule in quality software development
What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control? The 1-10-100 rule simply refers to the cost to fix defects (aka bugs) by phase/step in a…
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The Technology Adoption Life Cycle and Sticky Notes [The Formula to Quickly Reach The Right Market]
In one of the worst quotes in American history (followed closely by every popular quote from a Marvel character), Ralph Waldo Emerson said: Build a…
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CEO Guide to Quality Engineering
What is Quality Engineering? Quality Engineering encompasses all the product quality improving practices that you incorporate into your end-to-end (E2E)…
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STEM Education - A Growing National Security Crisis
Summary The US is largely seen as the innovation center of the world, at least when it comes to consumer, military, pharmaceutical and business products…