Author: mcherm
I've had a wonderful idea for a business. Each of my users is
invited to send me things in the mail things like pictures of their
kids or notes about what they are doing. I then scan in these
notes and pictures, print out everyone's updates in a big paper …
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Posted Sun 04 November 2018
by mcherm
in Law
Part 4 of a 4-part essay
In the first 4 parts of this essay, we covered how company culture affects the
solutions people choose, that Capital One excells at innovation but is poor at
reuse, and that reuse is important. Bringing this together, I think we need to
change the …
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Posted Thu 31 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development
Part 3 of a 4-part essay
In the previous
essay in this series I pointed out that Capital One is good good at innovation,
but isn't particularly good at reuse... so what? Everyone has strengths and
weaknesses, maybe this isn't such a big deal! If the cost of being good …
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Posted Wed 30 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development
Part 2 of a 4-part essay
For the past several years I have worked at Capital One, which is one of the
larger financial institutions in the US. As an organization, it lies somewhere
between being a bank and being a tech company. And Capital One is really good at …
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Posted Tue 29 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development
Part 1 of a 4-part essay
Company culture is an interesting thing. Especially in the world of technology
companies, everyone seems to agree that it is a very important thing, few seem
to know how to create or influence it. Some researchers like Edgar Schein have
attempted
to quantify it …
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Posted Mon 28 May 2018
by mcherm
in Software Development