Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
In our technical due diligence reviews we conduct for investment firms, we see five common mistakes by both young startups and in well-seasoned companies…
In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses…
Scientists, Engineers, and Technicians What is, or perhaps should be, the difference between a Computer Scientist, Data Scientist, Software Engineer, and…
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…
I’m a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Gladwell’s ability to convey complex concepts and virtually incomprehensible academic research in easily understood…
The Crippling Cost of Distractions Perhaps the biggest thief of progress is the misuse of time. Not talking about laziness here – I’m referring to what…
Our typical assessment goes something like this: We spend 1.75 days with an energized product team comprised of engineers and product managers. We feel the…
Sorry, False Alarm... On January 13, 2018, what felt like an episode of Netflix’s “Black Mirror” unfolded in real life. Just after 8 in the morning,…
Everything fails! This is a mantra that we are always espousing at AKF. At some point, these failures will manifest themselves as an outage. In a SaaS world,…
No Surprises We blogged recently about how to write precisely and concisely, highlighting how important it was to learn the “Three Sentence Rule” early in…
During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we…
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…
