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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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36:23

Following the money with Sam Fonoimoana

Software People Stories ·

2022/09/16

In this episode, Sam Fonoimoana, Founder and CEO of Datajoin – a B2B marketing analytics company, shares his thoughts and experiences related toGrowing up in Hawaii and California and studying at BYUChoosing business as a career in joining his Father in law’s export businessGetting into MBA to study FinanceStarting with a role to plan budgets and review progress with various departments in a publishing companyLearning to code, to get various reports to analyze data, as an analystHow he gets and

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29:56

Building respectful relationships with Ramesh Rajagopal

Software People Stories ·

2022/09/10

We continue our conversation with Ramesh Rajagopal, a coach at PM Power Consulting. In the first part he shared his origin story and also experiences of his childhood and career. In this episode, he continues to share more details about Leveraging his lean manufacturing experience to get into Agile approaches and becoming an Agile evangelistWorking in a company wide transformation planning processBeing summoned to the office one day,early morning - to be told that his position being made redundant,

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36:14

Shop Floor experience with Ramesh Rajagopal

Software People Stories ·

2022/09/03

This is part 1 of a 2 episode conversation. In this episode, Ramesh Rajagopal, a Coach at PM Power Consulting, shares his experience related toGrowing up in Madurai, a major temple town Learning Tamil, though his grandparents were from KarnatakaHis temple visits, on the way to school as well as on specific occasionsMoving to Bangalore and seeing the changes over the decadesPassing out as topper in his school for the SSLC gradeChoosing to switch colleges to study with his cousinDeveloping a talent -

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30:55

Riding the wave with K Ramkumar

Software People Stories ·

2022/08/27

In this episode, K Ramkumar, known as Ram or Kram - Director Product Mangement, Salesforce, in conversation with Gayatri shares Starting his passion in software in the way of coding Fortran in his alma matter BITS Pilani. Ram talks about starting in the software development working in small organisation in their ecommerce portals before moving into collaboration softwareWithin the span of 25 years Ramkumar has travessed the depths of collaboration, communication and security using cloud and data

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30:54

Lessons in work life harmony

Software People Stories ·

2022/08/19

We continue our conversation with Sowmya Gopalan and Ramya Gopalan, the first software twins to be featured on this podcast.In the first part they shared their origin story and also experiences of working in cutting edge technologies.We paused with a question on how they pay it forward to nurture young professionals.In this episode, Sowmya and Ramya continue to shareHow one might feel hesitant to approach colleagues or seniors, when starting on a careerNurturing the quality of giving space to others

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33:24

Cutting edge work with Sowmya Gopalan and Ramya Gopalan

Software People Stories ·

2022/08/12

First, our heartfelt thanks to all you listeners for the love you have shown and for permitting the Software People Stories to be part of your listening time over the last 200 weeks!Your wishes and encouragement is what has kept us going and will continue to do so.Thank youThis is a very special episode for the Software People Stories. This is the 200th episode.So, for this occasion, we have 2 guests - Sowmya Gopalan and Ramya Goplan - twin sisters, now working at two of the IT giants, doing leading

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39:49

Innovation, Incubation and starting up with Jani

Software People Stories ·

2022/08/06

This is the second part of the conversation with Janakiraman Srinivasan, known as Jani.In the first part, Jani spoke of his initial years in IT and the long career he had with Wipro. We ended that episode when it was a segue into his entrepreneurial roles.In this episode,Jani continues to share more stories related to The startup bug that led him to be a co-founder of MindtreeGetting an international experience, and the tech boom and startup culture in the silicon valley creating a strong

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27:38

Learning from new roles with Janakiraman (Jani)...

Software People Stories ·

2022/07/29

In this episode, Janakiraman Srinivasan, known as Jani - an IT industry veteran, in conversation with Shiv shares His childhood days in Kumbakonam, Tamil NaduHis Bachelors from REC Trichy and Masters from IIT Madras and getting into Wipro as a campus recruitee as Employee # 3 His father’s role in getting him good educationThe experience of being among the first employees in a newly launched company in a truly entrepreneurial environmentSetting up an R&D team and activity in Bangalore and then

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44:27

Employee #1 experience

Software People Stories ·

2022/07/24

In this episode, Victor Jayakaran- shares his story and experiences related to:His graduation from the Madras Institute of Technology and post graduation from the Indian Institute of ScienceGetting a campus placement at ITI and applying for a job with ISROOn his guide NJ Rao’s suggestion, choosing to join a small and growing company, WiproJoining Wipro in August 1979 and starting work at an IISc labBeing part of the team that decided what systems to go forWorking on technology transfer, with a view

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23:53

Startup founders formula with Sai Krishna

Software People Stories ·

2022/07/16

In this episode, Sai Krishna, a serial entrepreneur, who calls himself a metaverse plumber, loves creating interesting applications based on emerging and maturing technologies. In this conversation, he sharesHow a decentralized squad model, working with local partners and having an engineering focus for differentiation would help scale and localize, as neededHow to build an organization to realize the vision of the foundersCadence of 2 weeks or 12 weeks, multi-skilled squadsWillingness to learn and

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24:38

Plumbing for the metaverse with Sai Krishna

Software People Stories ·

2022/07/09

In this episode, Sai Krishna, a serial entrepreneur, who calls himself a metaverse plumber, loves creating interesting applications based on emerging and maturing technologies. In this conversation, he sharesHis adventures and misadventures in ITHailing from a south Indian family that emphasized educationMoving to Bangalore to continue his education in RV CollegeHis attraction to build products, more with an intention of having fun in doing itHis first product in the education spaceUnderstanding the

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38:55

Finding solutions with self reliance with Usha

Software People Stories ·

2022/07/01

In this episode, Usha from PM Power Consulting is in conversation with Chitra and shares her 3 plus decades of experience in software and technology around -Working at Raman institute for 10 years, her first exposure to computing A research institute expects you to do your own learning, but of courseWriting programs for 'astronomical' data analysis and structures of crystals in pascal & Fortran, Finding logic was easy, testing with missing data and reconstructing it was challengingBecoming

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42:00

Techie turned investor with Abhay Havaldar

Software People Stories ·

2022/06/24

In this episode, Abhay Havaldar shares his story and experiences related to:Starting his IT career with a role in testing software and going on to play other roles of marketing support and salesProduct management and support with a dealing room packageAlways willing to experiment and joining a venture capital firm - Draper InternationalEarly stage investing, General Atlantic, India - and a boutique investment firmWhy he got into ITHow he positions an IT solution to a prospective clientHis

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39:59

OS, products, innovation and coaching with K Nageswar...

Software People Stories ·

2022/06/17

In this episode, K Nageswara Rao - known as KNR - shares his story and experiences related to:Four threads related to his careerIndividual contributor, team leaderConnecting digital switches in the telecom industry; each switch being a digital exchangeTraveling to locations that he is not supposed to talk about, due to security reasonsJoining Tata Unisys and learning a lot in terms of working with teams Working on the operating system : Unix SVr4Moving to the Solaris OS group with Sun

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38:31

Writing for developers with Karl Hughes

Software People Stories ·

2022/06/12

In this episode, Karl Hughes, founder and CEO of Draft.dev, sharesStarting his career, working with startups as a software engineerTaking on engineering management and CTO rolesCovid triggering a shift to get into technical writing for developersHow to think of documentation for developers, as an intentional activityHis views on Agile approaches and documentation and the need to right size the documentationHow the product maturity influences the need and depth of documentationWhy writing is the most

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31:00

Using data for Organizational excellence with...

Software People Stories ·

2022/06/03

In this second part of the conversation with an IT industry veteran, Satyendra Kumar, he sharesHis perspective on Agile approachesAgile approaches are good for certain contexts such as: products, supported by DevOps and other techniquesMay still be reluctant for systems such as critical, real-time systems [nuclear, aircraft etc]For services work, need to be careful; unless there is a strong risk management approach, it may be risky to use Agile approachesExamples from his experiences in helping

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27:34

Getting the bigger picture with Satyendra Kumar-Part1

Software People Stories ·

2022/05/26

In this first part of the conversation with an IT industry veteran, Satyendra Kumar, he sharesComing from a humble background and doing his initial education in a villageGetting into Delhi University based on his good academic performanceHaving to take up a job, to meet some family needsHow he chose a job in a defence agency and rising to a senior levelLeaving his job and getting into consulting and qualitySetting up the Tata Business Excellence Model for the groupWorking with different business

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34:41

Product Thinking with Harish Achappa

Software People Stories ·

2022/05/20

In this episode, Harish Achappa KM sharesChoosing mechanical engineering as a subject of study and getting into TCS engineering servicesWorking on valves and compressorsGetting into programming as part if his workThe experience of having a paid vacation in Italy!How his interest in programming developed after starting to use C, C++ as a hobbyNoticing differences in projects done at client locations v/s in IndiaWorking directly with users and feeding off the energy based on common questionsGetting

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33:59

The joys of reading with Brij Sethi

Software People Stories ·

2022/05/14

In this episode, Brij Sethi, a Principal Consultant at PM Power, sharesHis growing up days in Pantnagar, near NainiTalHis passion for reading booksHis liking for mathematics and wanting to be an engineerBeing bitten by the electronics bug and electronics engineering in collegeJoining a masters in management in systems in IIM AhmedabadLearning Transactional Analysis Getting into a project to make ECG machines as an engineer, forgetting his MBAJoining WIPRO in 1993 and working on many challenging

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36:48

Abstracting needs, creating solutions with V Thyagarajan

Software People Stories ·

2022/05/06

In this episode, Thyagarajan, known as Raja - a Senior Management Executive and Chief Operating Officer with nearly 4 decades of experience in the IT industry involving International and multi-cultural environments, shares his story including points related to:How his uncle and brother were influential in getting into software after doing an MS in managementBeing part of a team that started a company, and being an entrepreneur without knowing itBeing a pioneer in the Indian IT industry, by having an

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