{"id":82,"date":"2017-09-17T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2017-09-17T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T12:27:49","slug":"cheese-grater-cost-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Cheese grater cost management."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ned’s new term of the day: Cheese grater cost management.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to build great culture at <\/span>Argomi<\/span><\/a>, and as part of that I was thinking about where I’ve seen team morale suffer in the past. I’ve decided that in difficult times, big companies suffer from cheese grater cost management.<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine you have a big block of delicious cheese. Whether it’s Wensleydale or Crumbly Lancashire is totally up to you, I’m not judging. Now imagine that one corner of the cheese has gone mouldy. Oh no!<\/span><\/p>\n

A smart person would cut off that corner, and enjoy the creamy goodness that remained. But a misguided soul might run a cheese grater across the whole block, hoping that by shaving off a small amount from everywhere, the mould will be gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Surprise surprise, that fiendish fungus remains. So the grater is dragged across once more. And again. And again. Until nothing is left.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that, my friends, is cheese grater cost management. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ned’s new term of the day: Cheese grater cost management. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to build great culture at Argomi, and as part of that I was thinking about where I’ve seen team morale suffer in the past. I’ve decided that in difficult times, big companies suffer from cheese grater cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7QqxF-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77,"url":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/?p=77","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":0},"title":"Product\/Market fit at large Financial Institutions","date":"March 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I had an interesting realisation today regarding prioritisation at a startup vs a large Financial Institution. As any startup mentor will advise, the key point to early growth is product\/market fit. Without that, one is essentially producing a product that isn't quite right for the market in which it is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"amaas\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69,"url":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":1},"title":"Argomi","date":"August 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I quit my job a few months ago and returned to Asia to start on the next chapter of my life: Argomi. Argomi is a personal finance manager for people comfortable with interacting with online services\u00a0for money management. \u00a0We aim to give our users advice about their investments, easy access\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"argomi\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16,"url":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":2},"title":"Sharing Resources between Maven modules","date":"January 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Recovered from my old Blog). I needed to share resources between modules in a multi-module Maven project. The resources in question are configuration data files which are converted into objects via XStream (plus some Spring Bean configuration files). The reason they need to be shared is for instantiation within module-specific\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":71,"url":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":3},"title":"Class Libraries With Microservices","date":"August 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the olden days, everyone went nuts for Service Oriented Architecture. \u00a0Many consultant dollars were made. \u00a0Everyone temporarily forgot who Fred Brooks was\u00a0(No Silver Bullet). Time moved on, the hype died down. \u00a0But just like a\u00a0Jeffrey\u00a0- IT COMES BACK. \u00a0Yes, I'm talking about micro-services. Martin Fowler has a really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"architecture\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nedlowe.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}