May 2010
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In May, 2000
I quickly learned that commuting by car from Warrenville to Skokie every day during rush hour wasn’t going to work. Thankfully my new boss, Carolyn, was flexible about it, and let me do an early-in, early-out commute. I would wake up at 4am, do a quick workout, and hustle to Skokie before traffic set in. Then I’d be out the office’s back door at 4pm every day, and home to Staci...
Going Local
Back around 2006-2007, as Obtiva was growing beyond our initial client, we started asking ourselves what sort of company we wanted to be. We had a couple of successful examples nearby that we could have chosen to emulate. We could have tried to be like my former employer, ThoughtWorks, which had scaled a successful transnational consultancy with a world-class culture around software development....
Obtiva's Secret Sauce
Obtiva came from simple beginnings and we’ve grown slowly, conservatively, and frugally over the years. We’ve worked hard, and with small budgets, to reach where we are today. Where are we? We are one of the premier custom software consultancies in the world, and the most prestigious Rails shop in Chicago. How did we accomplish this without a cent of investment capital? Culture. We...