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Technical Due Diligence: Did We Get It Right

Technical Due Diligence: Did We get it Right?AKF Partners have performed 100s of technical due diligence engagements on behalf of strategic investors, private equity, venture capitalists…

AKF

April 4, 2018 · 6 min read

Societal Consequences of the Uber Autonomous Vehicle Death

It is sad and unfortunate, but the inevitable has finally happened; we’ve suffered our first death from an autonomous vehicle. The Uber Autonomous Vehicle fatality in Tempe is…

Marty Abbott

March 22, 2018 · 4 min read

Architecture SaaS Leadership Organization Process Product

SaaS Migration Challenges

More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS, agile world. SaaS…

Dave Swenson

March 12, 2018 · 6 min read

Technical Diligence Process

Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence

You should not buy a home without an inspection by a licensed home inspector and you should not buy a used car without having a mechanic check it out for you. Diligence - it just…

Greg Fennewald

February 20, 2018 · 6 min read

Security

The AKF Partners Security Insights Cube

Necessary But Insufficient Security ReviewsFrom a security perspective, tech product companies far too often focus solely on various ISO and/or NIST audits to help inform their…

Marty Abbott

February 13, 2018 · 5 min read

Process

Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather

If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat. Yet somehow many…

Pete Ferguson

February 7, 2018 · 3 min read

Technical Diligence Product Security

Technical Due Diligence Best Practices

Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that companies evaluate…

Marty Abbott

January 23, 2018 · 5 min read

Leadership Process

There Are Always Plenty of Incidents from Which To Learn

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, residents and visitors…

Dave Swenson

January 13, 2018 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It

The Law that Almost Wasn’tConway’s law had a rather precarious beginning. Harvard Business Review rejected Conway’s thesis, buried as it was in the 43d paragraph of a 45-paragraph…

Marty Abbott

December 14, 2017 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development

In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses enroute to optimal productivity.…

Bill Armelin

November 8, 2017 · 4 min read

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Category: Artificial-Intelligence-

Technical Due Diligence: Did We Get It Right

Societal Consequences of the Uber Autonomous Vehicle Death

SaaS Migration Challenges

Managing Risk with Technical Due Diligence

The AKF Partners Security Insights Cube

Your Site is as Important as the Product You Sell - Recent Example from Saddleback Leather

Technical Due Diligence Best Practices

There Are Always Plenty of Incidents from Which To Learn

Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It

Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development

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