92: Cascading Passions

In conversation with Coaching Guru, Sivakumar from PM Power Consulting , he shares experiences with Gayatri From PM Power Consulting on his journey Discovered passion in a cascading manner by way of experimenting Current full stack developers and enjoyed starting in software as a full stack engineer Software projects are social organizations that needs to be nurtured Understanding of fulcrum and levers that you have to balance people and capability development Stories of two contrasting software deliveries One with a large development project that started off with great fanfare ends up in legal tussle Second that starts with many SLAs ends up with customer accolades Bridge between the two lies alignment of vision, trust and teamwork Changes are evident now in business investing energy and effort in technology teams  Stakeholder and People management - two sides of the same coin to manage culture, communication Can you become a person of influence - providing support, person of values and continuous beacon to facilitate conversations Highly momentous time personally to let go of control and let the team do their work Being a coach, Shiv points out various dimensions he’s found to add value based on the situation - as a mentor, agile custodian  Imparting learning through story telling and case study nuggets Experiment early and understand your passions like Shiv has found passion for writing caselets/stories/monographs Find an unforgiving mentor to hold you to high standards or an uncomfortable mirror early in your career Shiv can be reached at https://pm-powerconsulting.com/experts/sivakumar/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivakumar-subramanyan-1a78101/  Gayatri can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaya3k/