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Software People Stories

PM Power Consulting

Stories of what worked and sometimes what did not, in the course of discovering, designing, developing and delivering software based solutions – as shared by practitioners who went through these situations.

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28:54

Attention to details with Mohan Ram

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/30

In the first part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru is in conversation with Mohan Ram, a senior professional in the IT industry who has played various roles related to networking software development to business line management and now a coach with PM Power Consulting.Mohan sharesHis growing years in a conservative family in Thanjavur district in Tamil NaduAbout how his life was comfortable, not luxurious and how those days and culture had a strong influence on his lifeGetting into IT. probably

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27:46

Creating a courageous and inclusive environment with...

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/28

In the second part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru is in conversation with Vadeesh Budramane,Founder and CEO of AlgoShack, shares his career journeyShares his thought processes on why a product company to be started He also shares the decision parameters that he considered and that’s common across entrepreneursJourney to be gratifying to the founders and early employeesCelebrating every small milestone from ID issuance, website, logo and creating a sense of moving in the right directionAbility

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28:18

Multiplexing across Domains with Vadeesh Budramane

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/25

In the first part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru is in conversation with Vadeesh Budramane, Founder and CEO of AlgoShack, shares his career journeyVadeesh talks about starting in the embedded programming with Time Division Multiplexing and has built and learnt numerous protocols and standardsHe has also multiplexed his time across different domains such as Automotive, Medical instruments, Healthcare and Telecommunication Vadeesh shares his experience why he started the firm AlgoShack focused

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32:16

Understanding 5 key way of Agility in AI world with...

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/20

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Fred George,Consulting Developer in Scienta AS and master change agent, shares his career journeyFred shares his experience in creating and nurturing thinking diversity in his London projectEnsuring that you create a blameless culture and a wonderful experimentation and that’s what enables innovation to flow and no permission culture He shares about creating change management in behaviors starting with extreme

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39:04

Continuously Stay Transparent with Fred George

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/17

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Fred George, Consulting Developer in Scienta AS and master change agent, shares his career journeyFred is a career IBM developer and speaks about the skills he developedFred shares his experience in gaining an MBA degree and speaks about how IBM is great in building great people around yourTalks about how one needs to imbibe oneself in the talking to executives Shares some of the stories on ensuring that fears are

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30:00

Agenda Shifter with Karl Scotland

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/06

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Karl Scotland, Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services and a master facilitator, shares his career journeyKarl shares his journey of how he became a master facilitator and that started when he was experiencing tremendous resistance with Scrum. (Karl moved to using Kanban and lean concepts :) )Later when he was designing for larger change, Karl came across using X-matrix -

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29:39

Creating Change Makers with Karl Scotland

Software People Stories ·

2023/06/02

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Karl Scotland, Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services and a master facilitator, shares his career journeyStarted his education with a passion with music and quickly found that he was enjoying the software part of the music over creative musicKarl has held several engineering and management positions in Neural technologies, BBC, Cisco, Yahoo and Rally softwareLater on he moved

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45:12

Limit Is What You Set with Vikrant Viniak

Software People Stories ·

2023/05/26

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Vikrant Viniak, Senior Managing Director of Accenture and a prolific speaker on Technology at the frontier, shares his career journeyStarted as a mechanical engineer in the areas of supply chain. After taking his management degree in Chicago he chose to become a consultantShares his reasons for reinventing himself every 3-5 years and starts the root cause for itTalks about personal board of directors creating mentors around and

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27:43

Build Better Software Faster with Dave Farley

Software People Stories ·

2023/05/23

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Dave Farley, Independent Software Developer and Consultant, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.Dave shares his perspective on the new fads that are constantly coming in and what he’s rooting himself into the basicsCritical to focus on Fundamentals - exercise on learning, ensure that you have modular and building blocks, get feedback constantly, separation of concernsHaving these basic models in place

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32:36

Creating 10X Teams with Dave Farley

Software People Stories ·

2023/05/19

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Dave Farley, Independent Software Developer and Consultant, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.Dave started his career as a visual designer even before user experience became center stage He later became a systems engineer in designing large complex softwareDave shares his experience in working with stalwarts in ThoughtWorks building software in an agile fashion and the kind of innovations that the

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24:51

Success through shared goals with Venu Subramania Iyer

Software People Stories ·

2023/05/12

In this episode, Shiv continues his conversation with a colleague in PM Power, Venu Subrmania Iyer.In the previous episode, he asked Venu if testing should always be independent or it can be embedded in the development process itselfHe shared his answer to that question and moreFrom earlier models of independent testing centers, testing is being shifted left [particularly in Agile approaches], but there is a need for both approachesHow he got exposed to Agile approaches, by starting with

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30:02

A passion for testing with Venu Subramania Iyer

Software People Stories ·

2023/05/08

In this episode, Shiv is in conversation with a colleague in PM Power, Venu Subrmania Iyer. Venu, who started his career as a systems engineer, sharesStarting with hardware, software and testingBorn in Kerala and grew up in Alleppey and grew up in KottayamStudied Electrical EngineeringPassion for engineering was inspired by an uncle and it was a difficult journey due to personal situationsHow he goes about in identifying solutionsHis passion was in electrical engineering, designing various elements

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32:04

Building a platform that performs with Robert Cooke

Software People Stories ·

2023/04/28

In this episode, I continue my conversation with our guest Robert Cooke, founder of 3forge, a provider of data virtualization and visualization technology. In this conversation, Robert shares What was the startup bug that bit him.. The urge to reinvent how software is developed based on experience, after getting a feeling that 90% of the code written is quite similar across teams and organizations and how that can be a base for reuseSolve it once, solve it well, reuse it.His approach to abstracting

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26:21

A coder at heart with Robert Cooke

Software People Stories ·

2023/04/21

In this episode, our guest is Robert Cooke, founder of 3forge, a provider of data virtualization and visualization technology solutions. In this conversation, Robert shares His origin story of starting with computers when he was a kid in the 80sHis liking to build things - in wood or legoDiscovering that he could build a lot more without needing a lot more money, with computersDeveloping Video games, accounting software - helping manage things in college with software solutionsHis experience with

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38:28

Lasting Impact and Tea Shop Conversations with...

Software People Stories ·

2023/04/07

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Sat (Sathyanarayanan) Vijayaraghavan, Founder and CEO at Adept Labz AKA "Ajira.Tech" and CASA Retail AISat started dabbling with computers at the age of 11 and started keenly interested in problem solvingSat also shares his interests in computers while also sharing his earlier thoughts of following his fathers business and gently moved towards software technologyJoined Cognizant as one of the earlier employees and moved to back to

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37:32

Embedded programming to heading Cloud Platforms with...

Software People Stories ·

2023/04/01

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Bindu Sunil, Sector Head and Engineering Director - Cloud Data Platforms and AI in Wipro. Bindu started her carrier in Kirloskar as a design engineer for alternators.She then moved to Tata Elxsi as an embedded developerBindu shares her experience of building the teams being a techie at heartLearnt the basics of cloud right at the beginning of 2012Shares her growth story within Wipro cloud Talks about being Cloud advisory, program

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30:52

Democratizing education of Space with Pramitha

Software People Stories ·

2023/03/24

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Pramitha Ramaprakash, CEO of Transcend Satellite Technology Pramitha talks about her passion in aerospace and how that shaped her early experiences while working in WiproShe talks about Satellite launching as an extremely cool team sport as there are several field that come together Further she shares what it has taken to launch herself (literally) in the field She talks about her dream to launch 75 Indian student satellites in

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52:45

Micro and Macro Goals with Puja Issar

Software People Stories ·

2023/03/18

In the this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Puja Issar, Managing Director of AnitaB.org IndiaPuja started her career in the investment banking world in United Kingdom dealing with multiple banks and large corporates. She talks about the stresses of the job and the highs that came with itPuja talks about her career in 3 different decades with the first decade in advising large corporates on M&A dealsHer second decade she talks about her foray into the world of Not for

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48:30

Connecting the Dots in the career and life journey...

Software People Stories ·

2023/03/12

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Vaishali James, ex-CMO of OpenTap, Community Director for AnitaB.org and mentor at HopeWorks FoundationVaishali starts the episode with a very funny interaction of giving a technology solution ahead of its timeShe shares her tryst with doing an engagement on brand alignment and how simple steps could be taken at different levels to create that viable and clear brand promise to the end customerVaishali talks about the cross section

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33:00

Intersection of social change, technology and data...

Software People Stories ·

2023/03/04

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Palashi V, research scholar with Cornell UniversityPalashi started her career as a software engineer where she played the role of business analystsHer interests in social impact stemmed from Dhirubhai Ambani College where she did her thesis in web tools that empowered womenPalashi decided to pivot from software towards the intersection of social impact and technologyShe shares her learnings in training technology tools for underprivileged

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