AKF Partners

09/03/2021

Why story points and velocity matter

story points and velocity are important tools because they provide an effective way to measure the engineering team's ability to d

08/31/2021

Essential tech reading alert.

Platform is a much-used term nowadays - but, as a tech leader, are you using it correctly?

AKF CEO Marty Abbott on how to define a software as a service platform

Platform definition across sales, marketing, product, and engineering

07/26/2021

Self-assurance, authenticity and challenging the norm: AKF Partner Heather Abbott on helping women in tech prosper with

https://wearetechwomen.com/self-assurance-authenticity-and-challenging-the-norm-helping-women-in-tech-to-prosper/

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Navigating through the world of technology is tough as it is, doing it as a woman is even tougher. Saying how difficult it is for us women working in technology can be met with an eye-roll from those outside the industry, but it really is a whole different ball game.

07/25/2021

The danger zone of large groups.

Large Team Danger Zone

07/22/2021

NEW COURSE DATES: We are so happy to announce new dates for some of our very popular courses for senior tech leaders.

We will be running our in-person CTO accelerator in Scottsdale on Oct 19-21. This is a tech leadership course, developed and taught by former engineering leaders who have helped build some of the world's most popular products and successful teams.

https://akfpartners.com/workshops/akf-cto-accelerator

Our 2-day remote Architect Workshop will be on 5-6 Oct.

This course gives product architects of all levels the tools they need to develop, analyze, and control scalable, fast time to market, low cost of development, highly available products.

https://akfpartners.com/workshops/akf-architect-workshop

​The 2-day AKF Architect Workshop is designed to arm product architects of all levels with the tools they need to develop, analyze, improve and control highly scalable, fast time to market, low cost of operations, highly available, low cost of development products. The course is a “deep dive” ...

06/04/2021

"Any viable modern web application architecture will embrace the Single Page Application and leverage the ability to bring the experience close to the user via the compute resources in the browser."



https://akfpartners.com/growth-blog/browser-scalability

05/24/2021

One of the most misused words in our industry - technical debt.

First part in our new AKF series.
What is Tech debt and how to manage it

https://akfpartners.com/growth-blog/what-is-tech-debt

What would you like us to cover next on the topic of tech debt??

Technical debt is a phrase coined by Ward Cunningham in 1992. It’s a metaphor. Metaphors are great because they can help bri

05/24/2021

What did you do this weekend? We made a video for our new YouTube channel

A quick introduction to the bedrock of technology scalability, The Scale Cube

https://youtu.be/VvZ4sZIvhjU

05/12/2021

How do you prepare for a technical due diligence?

Here at AKF, we work with some of the world's leading private equity firms. This is our tried & tested due diligence approach.

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How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence

04/28/2021

CTOs - Should you capitalize or expense software development R&D costs?
AKF Partner Heather Abbott outlines the essential dos and don'ts when considering the financial treatment of product research and development

https://akfpartners.com/growth-blog/capitalizing-rd

04/19/2021

Leadership anti-patterns: Do you have one of these leaders in your technology or product organisation? Or do you recognise some of these behaviours in yourself?

The Big Brain Leader
The Third Person Leader
The Rockstar

https://akfpartners.com/growth-blog/leadership-anti-patterns