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Technical Diligence

Tech Due Diligence - Going Beyond the Checklist

One of our most popular posts is the sharing of our Tech Due Diligence checklist. This is indeed a great resource for conducting thorough and comprehensive…

Organization

7 Practices for Aligning Teams Around a Unified Strategy

Imagine a team working tirelessly, yet never quite hitting the mark. Deadlines are missed, projects stall, and frustration brews. The culprit? Misalignment.…

Leadership

Attributes of a Highly Successful CTO

This post identifies the attributes that are the most highly correlated with success in the CTO position. We define success in this context as a CTO “seen”…

Organization

OKRS - Overcoming the Most Common Mistakes

Many of our clients put in place OKRs to link their long term strategy to delivery. OKRs are Objectives and Key Results, or in AKF language 'Outcomes' and Key…

Artificial Intelligence

Fine-Tuning or RAG - What's Right for Your Business?

AI seems to be everywhere these days. From apps offering intelligent suggestions and personalized feedback to students (unfortunately) using it to finish their…

Process

Do We Need Scrum Masters?

This is the fourth part of a multi-part series on how to perform evaluations of Agile Development Processes.