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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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63: New Narratives, Beyond Binaries

Software People Stories ·

2020/03/13

In the second episode for the women’s special in the month of March, Gayathri and Chitra from PM Power Consulting are in conversation with Jacintha Jayachandran, Author, Coach & HR professional and Sushma Joshi a communication & employee engagement specialist who have worked for tech companies. They share stories of their non-IT roles and working with IT professionals and cover topics such as - Coming to IT by accident; the journey from pharma and journalism to IT Understanding the vocabulary and

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62: Magic and Dialogue

Software People Stories ·

2020/03/06

We begin our special series for the month of March in celebration of Women's day with 4 episodes. In this one, Maggie Imbamuthaiah Managing Director of Anita Borg India India is in conversation with Chitra Gurjar from PM Power Consulting where she shares her experiences and perspectives on Bringing technical women together through stories How women easily fall into an isolation trap Discovering and working with exceptional women Cultivating a place for support for entrepreneurs - a possible way to

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34:18

61: Transforming Education

Software People Stories ·

2020/02/27

In this conversation, Mani Ratnam, Senior Vice President at Strategic Education Inc shares his thoughts and experiences, with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting, related to: The transition from being a techie to someone visualizing and creating a larger impact How wanting to take ownership of the impact helped in this transition over time Getting guidance from many experienced mentors and learning by doing / failing Using a data driven experimentation approach, based on some formal models such as

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36:56

60: Knowledge is Power

Software People Stories ·

2020/02/21

In this conversation Ved Prakash, Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) at Trianz, shares his perspectives and experiences with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting, about: His education in engineering and management His experience as a techie Being the first person in the company to lead an industry vertical How he was asked to make knowledge management more effective in wipro; what, he thought would be a 2 year stint, became the turning point in his career The opportunities he saw in making larger impact

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59: Balancing Future Tech v/s Immediate Solutions

Software People Stories ·

2020/02/14

In this episode, Balakrishnan Sreenivasan - a Distinguished Engineer with IBM shares his perspectives with Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting on His experience that led to becoming a distinguished engineer How one has to internalize and abstract models [such as TOGAF] to solve large enterprise problems Starting with documenting an existing architecture.. How hard could that be - until you realize the possible ways in which it can be used On whether he has seen Conways law in practice How abstracting

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58: Diving Deep into Data

Software People Stories ·

2020/02/07

Tune into this episode, a deep exploratory conversation between Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting and Rinka Singh, Co-Founder, AccelerateFire shares his stories of Being a serial start-up-person Doing things outside of the day job, including starting the Software Process Improvement Network (BSPIN), Bangalore How he got interested in quality, process etc The experience of getting representatives from many organizations to come together and share data Some of the driving thoughts behind the open

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57: Off-Roading and Messy Hands

Software People Stories ·

2020/02/02

In this conversation between Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting & Sharad Sharma, co-founder of iSpirit Foundation, Sharad shares several off the beaten track perspectives on His multi-threaded career navigated via multiple s-curves How to create innovative software products, a dual immersion necessity If you read it in the news, dont follow it! Solving problems through different layers of work happening in different realms - the apple and android battery case. Understanding your personality archetype

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35:00

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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38:41

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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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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