Profile of Coverlet Meshing
News & Commentary Posts: 19
The author, a senior IT executive at one of the nation's largest banks, shares his experiences under the pseudonym Coverlet Meshing. He has spent the last two decades in the financial services sector, picking a fight with anyone who doesn't understand that banks are actually software companies and need to invest in engineering as a core competency. His cheery outlook and diplomatic nature are rarely reflected in his writing. Write to him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @CoverletMeshing.
Articles by Coverlet Meshing
3/19/2014
Marissa Mayer and other tech employers should focus less on an aggressive acqui-hire strategy and more on moonshot engineering goals, current and former Yahoo employees say.
3/4/2014
Is every hire a special little snowflake? That uniqueness affects the social dynamics of high-performing leadership teams.
1/31/2014
IT's eternal debate sidesteps the complexities of a fragile talent ecosystem and creates a vicious cycle that ensures project failure.
1/14/2014
A love letter to the tech marketers who buy my contact information.
12/9/2013
The defining quality of the DevOps movement can challenge the default division of labor.
11/19/2013
How to start a revolution at work by flattening the org, taking part in hackathons, and listening to rap music.
10/9/2013
Talent management needs a new paradigm to better serve people hardwired to be loyal followers.
9/23/2013
Anonymity might be the only path to building community in an age of corporate brand preservation.
9/9/2013
Why we should both love and hate the practice of giving employees one day a week to work on side projects.
8/16/2013
When it comes to both innovation and porn, there's a huge appetite for fantasy.
7/25/2013
Why the aging effects of Big should compel companies to have kids.
7/8/2013
Let's not get distracted as a nation from the real problem: our sorry state of analytics.
6/28/2013
Big enterprises are hard-wired to botch mobile apps design. But you can change your culture to avoid the pitfalls.
6/12/2013
How do Saul Alinsky's rules for activists apply to tech executives? Let us keep counting the ways.
5/20/2013
Saul Alinsky's controversial teachings changed slightly to apply to competitors and the business of technology. The first of two parts.
5/13/2013
If actionable business insight, the stuff of BI legend, is the Mt. Everest summit, know this: There's little point to building or buying a better ice pick if the climbing team has no arms.
4/25/2013
C-level types talk the talk of IT-business partnership, but at the end of the day you must learn their world and assert your expertise.
4/11/2013
Empower more engineers and data scientists, hold vendors more accountable and just say no to cheese.
4/4/2013
Today's IT groups make too many ROI guesstimates and have too little accountability, says this financial industry IT exec, in his debut column for InformationWeek.
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