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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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28:31

Diving inside the black box with Matt Genovese

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/22

Matt Genovese Founder and CEO of Planorama Design shares how he -Started learning programming as a kid on 8-bit computersFounding Planorama Design, software experimentsImpact of dinner table conversations around trigonometry, tinkering and electronics projectsNeed to know “why”, diving inside the black box, having the freedom to take things apart to learnWorking at Motorola, from fabrication to production, moving into functional design and verification for SoC for Power PC based RISC

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26:15

Personal lessons from podcasting with guest host Gopalan

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/18

This is part 2 of the conversation celebrating the milestone of 250 episodes, with our guest host Gopalan.Gopalan was the first guest on the show and agreed to play host and have the hosts as guests!In part 1, he was exploring aspects related to how the hosts prepare for an episode and how different formats worked for the Software People Stories.In this part, he continues to explore his curiosity of how the minds of podcast hosts work, in handling planned and unplanned situations.He asksSome things

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31:03

Celebrating 250 with guest host Gopalan

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/14

This a very special episode for all us, hosts - and assume, for you, our listener as well.This is the 250th episode of the Software People Stories.About 5 years ago, A desire to learn something new and leverage that learning to pay it forward to the community, led to the launch of this podcast.What started as Software Lifecycle Stories pivoted to Software People Stories and thanks to all your encouragement and love, we are at 250.This episode is a little different from the usual episodes in that we

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37:12

Try experiments Over Talking with Woody Zuill

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/10

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Woody Zuill, Expert Coach and co-author of Mob Programming, shares his career journeyBalancing the speeches and consulting with consulting engagementsWoody shares tips and tricks of being in the speaking networksWoody talks about joy of creating his own businesses - Almost 16 of them is creating Woody shares early experiments on signs and making new thingsHe shares his passion of making his day productive by

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34:37

Leading from With”Out” with Woody Zuill

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/07

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Woody Zuill, Expert Coach and co-author of Mob Programming, shares his career journeyShares how he joined software development after he created tools to improve his day-to-day lifeJokingly Woody mentions how he didn’t have to clean up(unlike doing carpentry) after a hard day at writing codeEarly experimentation on pair programming and having fun and how he found that explaining ideas, listening each other and

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31:01

Navigating ambiguity with Mohan Ram

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/04

In the second part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru continues his conversation with Mohan RamMohan talks aboutThe challenges in working with details as well as abstractionsThe cost of not understanding implicit requirements and the importance of progressive elicitation of requirementsHow coaching and observations of people who were doing well in these aspectsWhy crossing the initial hurdle of winning the confidence of your clients / users is extremely critical for the success of a projectHis

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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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