Software People Stories

In this episode Jerome Ruwe, Master Agile Coach is in conversation with Gayatri from DBS India. Jerome shares his experiences on

• Starting his career as a Finance specialist and falling in love with technology 
• Adopting Business Intelligence based software development & recognising power of data
• Connected to Jeff Sutherland and adopted SCrum practices and handled soft aspects of hard questions
• Meeting Boss Vode and experimenting with what we now know as LESS framework
• Deja vu when working as a scrum master for a university
• The pandemic level setting and humanity to the forefront
• His love of bringing people together, asking feedback in large forums and creating small experiments
• How technology can bring in objectivity and reduce discrimination 
• The shameless self promotion culture and how he feels agile coaches are diluting their brand
• Holding hard conversations on the success of the organization and how an agile coach equally shares the burden along with the C-Suite members
• Having common goals and keeping your customers and culture at the center makes your endeavor meaningful 
• Understanding points of diminishing marginal returns and how Change agents can structure their work and perspective
• Always staying honest to oneself, inviting mentors into your circle of trust and staying humble to continue to learn and grow

Jerome is a master Agile Coach enabling several organizations in their agility journey. He’s been in the industry for 30+ years and enabling organizations and powering them with Agile ways of working for 25 years. He has worked as Scrum master, Agile Team Coach as well as Enterprise coach with large firms. 

He is passionate about bringing agile to companies and truly embodies the message of empowering everyone with his innate style of bringing his genuine self in every interaction. 

Jerome is an avid speaker in several forums and also works with many fellow agile journey people to uphold the message of staying true to agile values. His methods, drawing from traditional Lean & Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, XP) as well as scaled frameworks and cutting edge techniques (LeSS, SAFe, Scrum at Scale, Dual Track Agile) bridge gaps which commonly exist between Product and Technology and establish objective measures of performance across critical OKRs (Objectives / Key Results).

Jerome’s prioritization of business outcomes and process efficiency gains result in a transparent, collaborative, engaging and profitable experience for my key Stakeholders - from individual team members to the C Suite.

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromeruwe/ 

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In this episode Liran Haimovitch, CTO and co-founder of rookout is in conversation with Chitra from PM Power Consulting. Liran shares his experiences on

• Working across multiple technologies & roles 
• Having a computer at age 6 and writing programs since then
• 2 impacts from his cybersecurity experience - (1) the importance of understanding software & its complexity (2) doing something beyond just writing code
• Aging systems, lost design intent, and the most common form of tech debt
• The 3 reasons for tech debt and what drives fear in engineers
• How he co-founded Rookout, born out of his own frustration trying to understand how software works
• The idea of seeing code live, running in the actual environment to understand whats happening, rather than static code
• Making life easier for software engineers & enabling them to see flow of code 
• How Rookout is helping customers reduce cycle time for new builds & adding new code
• Infrastructure complexities of cloud and spinning up 1000's of services
• Simplicity in software engineering & the philosophy on building simple components
• Thoughts on starting small & working agile & Ways of working for agile teams
• Focusing on creating short, frequent feedback loops
• A message for anyone taking up software engineering

Liran is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rookout. He’s an advocate of modern software methodologies like agile, lean, and DevOps. Liran’s passion is to understand how software actually works. When he’s not thinking of code, he’s usually diving or hiking.

Social Media Handles:

Twitter- @liranlast

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/liran-haimovitch-652bba95/

This podcast was created on Hubhopper studio. If you wish to start your own podcast for free, visit www.hubhopperstudio.com. Hubhopper is India's leading podcast creation platform. Start your podcast with Hubhopper studio & get your voice heard across platforms like Spotify, Gaana, Google podcasts, Wynk Music and more. Click on the link in the episode description or visit www.hubhopperstudio.com

This episode features a conversation between PM Power colleagues Guruprasad and Chitra with Guru sharing his story that includes

• Love for programming and logic
• C programming and how an incident set the stage for his sw dev career
• Experiences as a developer and directly working with customers
• His 3 lessons through a serious escalation
• Key takeaways when transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager
• Wanting to stay technical and how agile led the way to management
• Having an excellent manager as a mentor and role model in his early management days
• Finding his Ikegai through coaching and a series of ups and downs
• His message for aspiring coaches & people in technology

This podcast was created on Hubhopper studio. If you wish to start your own podcast for free, visit www.hubhopperstudio.com. Hubhopper is India's leading podcast creation platform. Start your podcast with Hubhopper studio & get your voice heard across platforms like Spotify, Gaana, Google podcasts, Wynk Music and more. Click on the link in the episode description or visit www.hubhopperstudio.com

In this episode PM Power colleagues, J Veeraraaghavan (JV) & Sivaguru are in conversation as JV shares his career journey during the mid-career days, when he moved from one leadership role to another including

• Getting the right breaks through his career
• Managing projects, taking up middle managerial roles and moving into executive management
• Getting exposed to and experience in roadmap planning for products
• Curbing the tendency to jump in and act when team members were facing challenges, rather than taking an approach of helping them
• What helped him get over this:
• Emotional intelligence
• Being aware of self and being empathetic and sensing how others feel
• Having a technical background
• In addition, approachability and ability to guide
• On dealing with managers, when he took on larger responsibilities 
• How he overcame the sudden feeling that one had nothing to do, as a manager, while being responsible overall
• His first experience in managing a program and what he learnt from not having prior experience
• What he realized by inadvertently stepping into the shoes of the project manager and realizing the impact it had on the project manager
• His thoughts on luck v/s hard work for a successful manager
• Four dimensions of success for a middle manager - Engineering excellence; Delivery oversight; Self leadership; Coaching skills
• How executive leadership can enable middle managers to go beyond performance reviews
• Establishing communities of practice to help middle managers 
• His take on managing time 

This podcast was created on Hubhopper studio. If you wish to start your own podcast for free, visit www.hubhopperstudio.com. Hubhopper is India's leading podcast creation platform. Start your podcast with Hubhopper studio & get your voice heard across platforms like Spotify, Gaana, Google podcasts, Wynk Music and more. Click on the link in the episode description or visit www.hubhopperstudio.com

In this episode, Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting is in conversation with Ujjwal Trivedi and his stories about

• Wanting to be a scientist, when he was graduating
• Why he had to take up a job, due to family situation
• Getting some inputs from colleagues and managers and recognizing his aptitude for more business oriented roles
• Journey from a software developer to a business analyst and then to a product manager
• Began blogging as a means of sharing his learning of new technology 
• Finding that his creativity in writing poems could be channelised at work as well
• How to develop empathy with customer needs
• Never second guess your user
• How to validate your product idea and staying away from candy questions
• Recommended book reads for product managers and on product management

Ujjwal Trivedi is a product guy with over 15 years of experience in building software. He is currently working as Associate Director Products, MoveInSync. He has worked on web and mobile products for US and Indian markets as a Techie and moved to Product Management about 8 years back. He loves poetry, reading, and actively contributes to the Indian startup ecosystem as part of Headstart.

Ujjwal can be reached via :

• linkedin.com/in/ujjwaltrivedi
• @ujjwaltrivedi 

Continuing with our 2-part Year End Special, our episode this week features PM Power coaches Gopal, Srini, Sivakumar, Sivaguru & Paramu

They share experiences, observations, insights and tips for anyone in a leadership role or aspiring to take up the role, in a dispersed mode of working. Tips include -

• Becoming situational leaders
• Copiously communicate
• Empathize with individuals
• Dont overdo anything
• Support associates, recognize mental well-being
• Keep the big picture of business, partners and members of your household in mind
• Have fun and remember, we are all in this together.

Check out my late2020 threw up challenges like no year before, in anyone’s living memory. As coaches from PM Power Consulting, many of us went saw and experienced changes that affected our coaching practice. Through observations, sensing and experimenting, all of which were activated differently, we un-learned and re-learned to respond to our client needs. As 2020 draws to a close and a new year ushers itself in, tune into part 1 of our 2-part Yr End special where we PM Power coaches speak of challenging moments and how we adapted.In this episode we feature Gopalan (Gopal), Vishweshwar Hegde (Vishu), Anantha Natarajan (Anand), Srinivasan Soundararajan (Srini) and Sivaguru (Shiv). st episode!