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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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56: Dilemmas and Honesty

Software People Stories ·

2020/01/22

Tune into the conversation between Pallavi Srinivasa, Director of Product Management at Cisco and Chitra Gurjar from PM Power Consulting where Pallavi shares her basket of a variety of experiences and thoughts around - Magic happening via bits n bytes - Connectedness of people, information & energy - Customer experience, product thinking and development, and the role of human emotions in developing solutions - Cost of impatience in using technology and AI v/s slow growth in a holistic manner -

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55: Creating a Rhythm in your career

Software People Stories ·

2020/01/17

We welcome our listeners back to the Software People Stories with our first podcast for 2020. Gayathri and Chitra, colleagues at PM Power consulting thoroughly enjoyed this un-crafted conversation and were pleasantly surprised at what unfurled. Tune into their conversation where Chitra shares her experiences on - How a career journey is often not on a ladder but looking at it as an exploration Mindswitch happened when she moved from development to testing Looking at software from customer empathy

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4:56

Thank you, Happy New Year!

Software People Stories ·

2019/12/23

Its been a great year with 54 episodes. Plenty of stories from around the world through the voices of people sharing their experiences, insights, lessons, advice, perspectives and so much more. We take this opportunity to thank our listeners and our guests for supporting the Software People Stories and wish you all a very happy new year. We are taking a short break and will be back with people stories and much more. Stay tuned! Cheers, Sivaguru, Chitra and Gayathri PM Power Consulting.

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54: Insights from vignettes

Software People Stories ·

2019/12/09

This conversation highlights stories and experiences of Jayesh Chakravarthi, Co-Founder and CEO of Recast technologies with Sivaguru from PM power consulting on Selling technology, solutions & software Envisioning solutions to solve Bengaluru traffic problems Entrepreneurial experiences and product validation 3 good tips for entrepreneurs on how to take an idea to a feasible business The importance of having multiple founders; including thought & experience diversity and how to handling change

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53: 2nd Generation Product Technologist

Software People Stories ·

2019/12/02

Listen to Jeetu Narayan, Business Executive, Entrepreneur and Technology specialist share insights with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting on a wide array of topics that include - Being a second generation IT professional in his family Considering himself to be a product technologist Getting hooked on to computers through games Addictive products and the attention economy Building things useful for your customers Different learnings from startup, mid market companies The importance of EQ Waterfall,

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40:05

52: Helping Society in Many Ways

Software People Stories ·

2019/11/23

This is a conversation between Hariprakash Agrawal, Entrepreneur & Agile Coach with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting, where Hari talks about: Graduating from IIT Kharagpur and coming to Bangalore Taking up a process related role as a fresher Starting his first company ‘OpCord’ for optimization and coordination Building his first automation Creating a product based on Excel to create BDD [Business Driven Development] based tests Starting a solution for car pooling, to address some common social

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51: A Career Retrospective

Software People Stories ·

2019/11/15

A candid conversation between Madhavi Ravanan, SI Delivery Head at Nokia and Chitra Gurjar from PM Power Consulting, covered several topics from Madhavi's experiences on Luck by chance entry to NIT Trichy to get her degree in engineering Early development days for telecom software learning standards, switches and conducting experiments Role diversity and how she took on business development Developing technical practice as a means of incubating ideas, finding adjacencies and becoming a trusted

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50: Paying it Forward

Software People Stories ·

2019/11/07

In this episode, we bring you what "pay it forward" means to some software people, currently associated with PM Power Consulting. Sivaguru: Being grateful for the nudge from a neighbor and the in person tutoring and guidance to see me as an engineer, without expecting anything in return, and how teaching is a way of sharing your own experience Chitra: being spotted by a coach to get inducted into basketball, being tutored and mentored by a professor in college and one way she pays it forward is to

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49: Embracing New Avatars

Software People Stories ·

2019/10/31

In this episode, PM Power colleagues Gayathri and Chitra are in conversation as Gayathri shares narratives about Learning in the face of continuous change Owning your career and sustaining like marathon runners How business is getting re-invented and 4 dimensions of business agility Purpose driven learning & how organizations can unshackle themselves Alignment of purpose and business agility Of cruise ships and yachts Experiences, outcomes & results and how these impact an organizational

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48: An Adaptable Career

Software People Stories ·

2019/10/24

In this episode Ramkumar, VP Technology from MiQ Digital is in conversation with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting. Ram shares his views on - How he got into software to have greater flexibility in terms of companies to choose from How he understood that every software, every company provides great opportunities to do great work Qualities he looks for, when hiring What does empathy for users mean to backend teams? Contextual choice of Agile or Waterfall How to effectively organize teams that produce

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37:58

47: Flows and Transitions

Software People Stories ·

2019/10/18

We welcome back a fellow PM Powerian, Vishu Hegde in conversation with Chitra where Vishu shares a flow of thoughts on Connecting with organization vision with 2-steps removed Building a temple and laying bricks Principles of flow and identifying bottlenecks using flow metrics Understanding flow of work by visualization, metrics, work-in-progress & throughput Starting with mindset and structure to enable organizations to see a "flow" How companies can move from IT agility to business

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46: A Courageous Decision

Software People Stories ·

2019/10/13

In this conversation, Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting talks to Sukumar, Co-Founder of Tiny Magiq, where Sukumar shares his stories about: His friend who inspired him to get into software How, on his first day at a client’s place, he did something totally unconnected - as he thought - to software His first lesson at work - attitude! What one can learn from working on a maintenance project How his first role with a sales responsibility was so stressful, tending to a breakdown Mustering the courage

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45: The Mind of an Author

Software People Stories ·

2019/10/05

In this conversation, Paramu shares his experiences on writing books with Sivaguru. Listen to this chat between 2 colleagues at PM Power Consulting covering Paramu's views on : Where ideas come from, or where he gets his inspiration on topics to write about Specific triggers for this two published books so far [and the third - a technical book - he is working on now] On writing sequels and if they are expected by the readers as more of the same Book writing being a team sport The challenge of

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44: A Technologist at Heart

Software People Stories ·

2019/09/28

Many stories play out in our lives. Listen to a lively chat between Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting and Yogesh Gupta, President and CEO of Progress Software, talking about - How he got into IIT How a joystick that got him into programming His early interest in AI Embedded code to Enterprise code Building a distributed relational database Building on something that he already knew, to get into completely new areas, such as marketing His thoughts on ‘AI in everything’ How technology can be

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43: 4 Decades in 2 Phases

Software People Stories ·

2019/09/19

Episode: 4 decades in 2 phases Sub title: Consultant to Implementer In this conversation Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting is in conversation with his old friend Neelu (PK Neelakantan). Listen to their conversation as Neelu talks about: Two significant phases of his career Playing software development and business development roles A major personal decision to move base from India to the US An urge to do something on his own About losing the job at the time of the dot com bust About an environment

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42: Re-Discovery and Agility

Software People Stories ·

2019/09/11

In this episode Jayaprakash JP, coach and consultant talks to Chitra from PM Power consulting about - Being an engineer at heart & how his career began in the software industry, working in product & services organizations - Continuous rediscovery, love for learning, and curiosity - Building enterprise health applications - Experiencing different work cultures between services & product organizations - Co-discovering & co-developing customer needs in a VUCA environment with inclusivity &

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41: Everything comes around

Software People Stories ·

2019/09/05

This conversation between VK Kumar, a seasoned architect and Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting brings to light Kumar's narratives on The solid grounding that formal and structured training can give His initial work on one of the first globally successful products from India What he learnt about practical use of technology from a consulting role Becoming an architect What cross-over cables taught him Challenges of working in a distributed team Making meetings effective through a practice of

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40: Transformation Stories

Software People Stories ·

2019/08/29

In this conversation, Veena Ramagoplan, Co-Founder and Director of Inroads Leadership Development and Chitra from PM Power talk about Veena’s variety of experiences such as Overcoming careless whispers and successfully leading a team of 50 sailors on a 250km trek Facing cultural experiences while handling global transitions Being exposed to people management at a very young age, handling the media glare, and being in the Limca book of records The importance of self belief & responding with action

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39: Confidence and Constant Learning

Software People Stories ·

2019/08/23

Listen to another interesting conversation between colleagues J Veeraraaghavan and Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting, as JV's shares his experiences on Various role transitions in JV’s career and how he handled them The motivation to excel in the responsibilities he took up How his core strengths of communication, interface with people, being able to talk the language of the customer, being a good listener helped in getting new responsibilities and challenges Learning on the job Realizing that an

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38: Photo Processing to Product Management

Software People Stories ·

2019/08/15

Here's a conversation between Sairam and Sivaguru of PM Power consulting as they uncover facets of Sairam's journey from when he began working in film technology and film manufacturing to his extensive experience in software design and development. Sairam has worked alongside industrial engineers which helped him to learn, understand and associate his thinking with JIT, Lean, Kanban, BPR etc. He has adopted IID [Incremental and Iterative Development] – (unknowingly) as early as 1994, to turn around

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