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Software People Stories — 406 episodes

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Data Science and Human Foundations with Ashish Jha

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Accidental Start to an AI-Era Technology Leader with Vijaya Kadiyala

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Systems thinking, Social bonding & new contracts with Jithu Gopal

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Business Before Technology with Mario

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Making Products Matter with Saraswathi Shant Kumar

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Accounting, ERP and Change management with Chander Sankaran

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An Idea Today, an Outcome Tomorrow with Mathangi Sri Ramachandran

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Enabling Better Decisions Through Data with Sree Krishna Kumaraswamy

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AI, Integration, and Innovation with Elangovan Shanmugam

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Leading Through Every Technology Wave with Indira vidyaprakash

11

From Navy to SaaS to AI with Ian Hogg

12

From H4 to CEO: Building a Life and Software Company with Rajashri Kidambi

13

Reviving Developer Passion with Paramu Kurumathur

14

From Gaming to Global Efficiency with Evan J Schwartz

15

Navigating Career Curves and Breaks with Chaitra Rao

16

Navigating Tech and Chaos with Tyler Wells

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Building a Business Dream with L A Balamurugan

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Unleashing Potential with Rajesh Sharma

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A real natural with Arundathi Rao

20

Bits, Banking & Business Analytics with Muthusamy Vetrivel

21

Beyond Coding: Thriving as a Thinker in the Age of AI with Manisha Deshpande

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Belong, Don't Blur with Dr. Vaijayanthi Srinivasaraghavan (Viji)

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Beyond Clean Tech: From Science to Scale with Hiranmayee Vedam

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Leading with Purpose with Sujatha Ramani

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Evolving Workplace Culture with Srini Sundararajan

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Building Global Tech Solutions with VR Govindarajan

27

Knowledge Management Insights with Jordan Richards

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Navigating Technological Changes with Sudipta Lahiri

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Tech Entrepreneurial Insights with Bhargav Bhikkaji

30

Navigating Career Paths with Anees Haidary

31

Loving Failure and Learning Daily with Kumaran Anandan

32

From Backend IT to Frontline Digital Transformation with Shubhangi

33

New Year message from our Hosts

34

Embracing Change and Challenges with Hasan Siddiqui

35

Curiosity-Driven Success with Ravikiran Pothukuchi

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Evolving Security Practices with Ben Wilcox

37

Empowering Developers with Yaron Schneider

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Numbers, Networks, and Nuance with Madhavan Jagannathan

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From Banking to Boardrooms with Rupam Tandon

40

Bridging Engineering and Marketing with Mike Maynard

41

Exploring Science and Technology Synergy with Prasad Chodavarapu

42

Celebrating Seven Years: Reflections and Future Aspirations

43

Full Stack Leadership with Dr. Krishna Prasad

44

Achieving Excellence with Naresh Choudhary

45

Adapting to Innovation with George Mundassery

46

Navigating Tech Waves with Michael Ferranti

47

Building Bridges Between Startups and Enterprises with Sunil David

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Exploring Cybersecurity Innovation with Jasson Casey

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Leadership Lessons in Tech with with Eric Müller

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Hollywood to Tech with Steven Puri

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Blending Roles, Breaking Ceilings with Shikha Munjal

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Data, Security, and Startups with Harish Chandramowli

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Engineering Futures and Purpose with Dr G Uma

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Technology and Society with Chris Miller and Allen Batteau

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Building the Future: From COBOL to AI with Spart Parthasarathy

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A Journey of Innovation and Challenges with Galvin Widjaja

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Insights into Dev Tooling with Tom Elliott

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Story of a fractional CTO with Thanos Diacakis

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Rewiring Careers, Redefining Impact with Anu Dwaraknath

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Passion, Patents, and Powering Down AI with Fred Jordan

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Entrepreneurship, AI, and Social Impact with Santosh Kaveti

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Interpretability and Explainability with Aruna Chakkirala

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Selling IT based solutions with Deepak Mittal

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Involving Communities in Product Development with Jake McKee

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From Theater to entrepreneurship with Stamatis Astra

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Amplifying Reinvention with Deeksha Senguttuvan

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From COBOL to AI with Allen Cooper

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Exploring Peer-to-Peer Tech with Mathias Buus Madsen

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From code to community with Sundar Rajan

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Unlock Yourself along with the People around you with Sunil (SKG) Gupta

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Conversation with a Cloud Computing Pioneer, David Young

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Believing in the happenstance of hard work with Karthik (KK) Karunakaran

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Adaptability, Empathy, and Breaking Comfort Zones with Veena Rao

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Journey in Innovation & Leadership with Ponni Krishnamoorthy

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Learn, Unlearn and Re-Learn with Bindhu Unny

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Startup Struggles to Global Leadership with Vidya Kabra

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Full Stack leadership with Paramu Kurumathur

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Live a life that you are excited about with Rachana Shenoy

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Building a strong interoperability solution with Rachana Shenoy

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Creating and Nurturing High Performance Teams with Hikari Senju

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Serial Entrepreneurial experience with Hikari Senju

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AI and customer experience with David G Ewing

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Customer experience first with David G Ewing

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Balancing priorities with Gorkem Ercan

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Contributing to the Open Source movement with Gorkem Ercan

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UX for developers with Sophia Willows- Part2

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Astronaut to Head of Engineering- Part1 with Sophia Willows

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Understand Business Catalyst with Lekha Bajpai – Part2

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Bring Your Own AI to Work with Lekha Bajpai - Part1

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Leveraging AI for developers with Greg Foster - part 2

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Passion for developer experience with Greg Foster - part 1

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Celebrating Six Years of podcasting

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S-curve with Santana Krishnan

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S-Curve with Srinivasan Sundararajan

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S-curves with Mohan Ram

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S-curves with Anantha Natarajan

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S-curves with Gopalan

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S-curves with Paramu Kurumathur

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Maintaining Composure, being productive with Ben Johnson

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Building a strong team culture with Ben Johnson

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Collaborating teams with Douglas Ferguson

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Leadership lessons with Douglas Ferguson

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Working with the Government with Karthik Viswanathan

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IT solutions in the Government with Karthik Viswanathan

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Entrepreneurship with Ravi Krishnappa

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Being insanely curious with Ravi Krishnappa

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One Company careers with Gunaseelan Narayanan

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Growing as a leader with Gunaseelan Narayanan

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driving positive change with Sapna Jhawer

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Strategic Vision, Collaborative Leadership style by Sapna Jhawer

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Teamwork and mentorship with C Subramanian (CS)

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Learning and Growing with C Subramanian - CS

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Successful outsourcing partnerships with Andy Hillard

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Essentials of outsourcing with Andy Hillard

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Being an architect with Mike Bowers

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Architecting database engines with Mike Bowers

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Architecting solutions for the social sector with Vijayashree Urs

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Late career options with Shekhar Chandra

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Staying curious and adaptable with Harpreet Singh

120

Corporate, Entrepreneurship and Social impact with Vinaya Mallya

121

No guilt career breaks with Amita Ardha

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The New Indian Woman, Krishna

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Travel, Media & Software

124

Creating an Authentic Identity

125

Panel Discussion on Enterprise Agility

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3 Authors 1 Amazing Book

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Documentation Dogma in Software with Prema Dhas Mohunraj

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Shortening the Cycle time in Automotive Space with Prema Dhas Mohunraj

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Analytics and planning with Srinivasan Sundararajan

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Golden Optimals with Mohan Ram

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Year end thoughts with Chitra and Gayatri

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Year end thoughts with Kurumathur Param

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Year end thoughts with Gopalan

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Year end thoughts with Anantha Natarajan

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Creating your great day every day with Bharath Kumar

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Collaborate, to simplify problems and solutions with Tom Pierce

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Military experience and software development with Tom Pierce

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Secure development with Jeremy Snyder

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Scaling to the cloud with Jeremy Snyder

140

Accelerating Business Outcomes with Nanthakumar Arumugam

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Don't Choose an Easy Path with Saikat Chakrabarty

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Smart hiring for startups with Prasenjit Sarkar

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Joys and pains of entrepreneurship with Prasenjit Sarkar

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Building Confidence and Career with Kamala Srinivasa

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Becoming a consultant with Dan Balcauski

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Pricing Software Services with Dan Balcauski

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Making teaching exciting with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan

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Balancing professional and personal pressures with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan

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Modeling the celestial objects with Kishore Kumar

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Software professional to Youtuber with Kishore Kumar

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Being in the limelight puts a spotlight with Mathan Ramanujam

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Harnessing your curiosity with Mathan Ramanujam

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Anticipating adverse events with Matt Genovese

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Diving inside the black box with Matt Genovese

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Personal lessons from podcasting with guest host Gopalan

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Celebrating 250 with guest host Gopalan

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Try experiments Over Talking with Woody Zuill

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Leading from With”Out” with Woody Zuill

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Navigating ambiguity with Mohan Ram

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Attention to details with Mohan Ram

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Creating a courageous and inclusive environment with Vadeesh

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Multiplexing across Domains with Vadeesh Budramane

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Understanding 5 key way of Agility in AI world with Fred George

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Continuously Stay Transparent with Fred George

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Agenda Shifter with Karl Scotland

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Creating Change Makers with Karl Scotland

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Limit Is What You Set with Vikrant Viniak

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Build Better Software Faster with Dave Farley

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Creating 10X Teams with Dave Farley

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Success through shared goals with Venu Subramania Iyer

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A passion for testing with Venu Subramania Iyer

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Building a platform that performs with Robert Cooke

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A coder at heart with Robert Cooke

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Lasting Impact and Tea Shop Conversations with Sathyanarayanan Vijayaraghavan

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Embedded programming to heading Cloud Platforms with Bindu

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Democratizing education of Space with Pramitha

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Micro and Macro Goals with Puja Issar

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Connecting the Dots in the career and life journey with Vaishali James

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Intersection of social change, technology and data science with Palashi V

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Design is like poetry with Jeremy Kriegal

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Creativity is everybody’s job with Jeremy Kriegel

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Continuously Curious with Rohit Salecha

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Embrace Code in Everything with Rohit Salecha

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Connecting at all levels with Bill Hall

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Simulation based learning with Bill Hall

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Being a Fremen with Steven Aberle

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The potential of Large Language Models with Steven Aberle

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Reflections with PM Power coaches

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A Message from the Co-hosts

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Supporting usage of technology with Baktha Muralidharan

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Selecting appropriate technology with Baktha Muralidharan

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Scaling your company with Maha Mahadevan

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Startup, stay focused with Maha Mahadevan

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Social aspects of teamwork with Jutta Eckstein

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Teaching, consulting and coaching with Jutta Eckstein

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Co-founder chemistry with Scott Ford

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Modernizing software with Scott Ford

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Building to learn with Dorai Thodla

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Technopreneurship with Dorai Thodla

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Starting up as a team with Yev Khessin

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Helping Objects in Motion with Yev Khessin

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Following the money with Sam Fonoimoana

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Building respectful relationships with Ramesh Rajagopal

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Shop Floor experience with Ramesh Rajagopal

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Riding the wave with K Ramkumar

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Lessons in work life harmony

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Cutting edge work with Sowmya Gopalan and Ramya Gopalan

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Innovation, Incubation and starting up with Jani

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Learning from new roles with Janakiraman (Jani) Srinivasan

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Employee #1 experience

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Startup founders formula with Sai Krishna

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Plumbing for the metaverse with Sai Krishna

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Finding solutions with self reliance with Usha

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Techie turned investor with Abhay Havaldar

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OS, products, innovation and coaching with K Nageswar Rao (KNR)

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Writing for developers with Karl Hughes

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Using data for Organizational excellence with Satyendra Kumar = Part2

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Getting the bigger picture with Satyendra Kumar-Part1

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Product Thinking with Harish Achappa

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The joys of reading with Brij Sethi

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Abstracting needs, creating solutions with V Thyagarajan

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Being Objectively critical with Muktesh Murthy

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Rising to any Challenge with Cynthia Swarnalatha

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Innovating to save lives and more with Scott Schober

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Being the best in the world with Tarush Aggarwal

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The Glass is half full with Baiju Joseph Thalupadath

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Freedom is always there with Poornima Shenoy

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Don't Predict just Adapt with Jaya Vaidhyanathan

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Starting young with Anjali Jayaraman

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Promoting conversations with Krupa NS

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If you are not growing, you are falling behind with Joseph Wong

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Venturing beyond your comfort zone with Jacob Kurian - part 2

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Venturing beyond your comfort zone with Jacob Kurian - part 1

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Being in the learning zone with Kartic Vaidyanathan

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Riding the Sinusoidal wave with Prakash Bulusu

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Leapfrogging the technology with Pallav Prakash

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Understanding the Why first with Nani Narayanan Srinivasan

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Immersing into data lineage and career contours with Sriram Rangarajan

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Curiosity and crafting stories with Sivakumar

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Power of Observation and Note Taking with Vasu

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Maintaining calm under pressure with Gopalan

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From ideas to actions with Paramu Kurumathur

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Pacing your activities with Raghu Viswanathan

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When Passion is Work with Raksha Rao

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Career transition success mantras with Nash Narasimhan

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Making the Leap with Raghu Srinivas

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Transitions to Middle Management with Dr Krishna Prasad

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Building Communities with Naresh Jain

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Lifelong learning with Dr. Asoke Talukder

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One Shot at a Time with Seema Joshi

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Having an experimental mindset with Tom Henriksen

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Transferring knowledge to others with Gopalaswamy Ramesh

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Progressively being in the Discomfort zone with Jayashree Rajagopalan

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Solving your manager’s problems with Anantha Natarajan

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Putting more software into hardware with Srinivasa Raghavan

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Getting things done with Jayaraman (Raghu) Raghuraman

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The art of saying no with Raminder Rathore

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Software Match Makers with Mohan Panchapikesan

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Genesis of a company with Sanjay Jayakumar

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It’s not about the software with Bhuvan Anandakrishnan

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Software development is a societal sport with Hendrik Esser

262

Mixed Tapes & 100 Stories with Madhavi Nadig

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Crafting software to crafting toys with Ramesh Shastri

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Patience, Capital and Building Products with Madhurima Agarwal

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Managing complex programs by influence with Srilakshmi Ranganathan

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Outthinking a hacker with Ted Harrington

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A Developer for Life with Raja

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More than Writing Code with Dr.Neeta Trivedi

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Weaving a Fabric with Amrita Samuel

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Visualizing Code with Chuck Weindorf

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Staying Human with Amit Sarangi

272

A Founder's story with Seethaprasad Mandikel

273

The Ship in Leadership with Sanjay Tambwekar

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A People's Technologist with Pragati Ogal Rai

275

Reading and Symbiosis with Ranjani Mani

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Lifelong Learning Tips with Hamsa Ravikiran

277

Outcomes for Other People with Shane Hastie

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Decision Making in Startups with Sunil Mukundan

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Mutual Respect & Support with Maha & Lakshmi

280

Networking and Technology with Manju and Rajiv Kuchhal

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Staying Relevant with Priya and Sridhar Parthasarathy

282

Two In Step with Pratibha and Sirish Batchu

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Decisions, Digital & Dynamics with Naresh Bansal

284

Abstract, Isolate, Interface & Automate with Dr Pramod Varma

285

Being One with your Target with Jerome Ruwe

286

Crafting Software with Liran Haimovitch

287

A Pathfinder's Story with Guruprasad Krishnan

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DOer to Get-it-Done-er with J Veeraraaghavan

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Product Thinking Trifecta with Ujjwal Trivedi

290

Coaches' Reflections with PM Power Coaches - 2

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Coaches' Reflections with PM Power Coaches - 1

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Continuish Ikigai with Krishna Prasad

293

Business as Usual or Not? With Sunita Rao

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Game, Set and Mind with Badri Narayanan

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Exploring New Frontiers with Anuradha Venkatesh

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Moments of Magic with Sundara Sukavanam

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Embracing Digital with Pravin Gandhi

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3x3 Kaleidoscope with Kishan Malur

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Exploring Different Realms with Preethy Padmanabhan

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The CIO who hated IT once with Manoj Deorukhkar

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Listening Right and Receiving Gifts with Deepak Visveswaraiah

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Your Network Selects You with Pankaj Rai

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See, Engineer, Build with Anu Kannan

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Special Episode: Stories behind People Stories

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Celebrating Century Stories

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Mnemonics and Improv

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When Work is Play

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Shifting Sands

309

Four Innings Career

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95: Taking Calculated Risks

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94: 5 Tantras of Enterprise Agility

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93: Answering the What IF?

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92: Cascading Passions

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91: Changing Ecosystems

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90: For the Joy of Learning

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89: Twists and a Tale

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88: Stories of Self Belief

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87: From Order Takers to Agenda Setters

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86: Shifting Mindsets

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85: Hunger to Learn

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84: Think Just Enough

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83: Trusted Relationships and Education

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82: Cloud Maturity and API Dynamics

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81: Data, Risk & Decisions

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80: Machine Learning and EQ 2.0

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79: Resilience & Passion

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77: Purpose Oriented Products

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78: Lockdown Lessons in Agility

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76: Leader or Individual Contributor

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75: Software for Different Countries

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74: Signal Processing to Data Engineering

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73: Comics and Cybersecurity

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72: Software and Cinema

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71: Dispersed Teams - 7

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70: Dispersed Teams - 6

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69: Dispersed Teams - 5

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68: Dispersed Teams - 4

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67: Algorithms and Systems Thinking

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66: Dispersed Teams - 3

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65: Dispersed Teams - 2

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64: Dispersed Teams - 1

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63: New Narratives, Beyond Binaries

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62: Magic and Dialogue

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61: Transforming Education

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60: Knowledge is Power

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59: Balancing Future Tech v/s Immediate Solutions

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58: Diving Deep into Data

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57: Off-Roading and Messy Hands

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56: Dilemmas and Honesty

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55: Creating a Rhythm in your career

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Thank you, Happy New Year!

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54: Insights from vignettes

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53: 2nd Generation Product Technologist

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52: Helping Society in Many Ways

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51: A Career Retrospective

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50: Paying it Forward

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49: Embracing New Avatars

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48: An Adaptable Career

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47: Flows and Transitions

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46: A Courageous Decision

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45: The Mind of an Author

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44: A Technologist at Heart

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43: 4 Decades in 2 Phases

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42: Re-Discovery and Agility

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41: Everything comes around

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40: Transformation Stories

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39: Confidence and Constant Learning

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38: Photo Processing to Product Management

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37: Banana peels and monocultures

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36: A Life Full of Stories

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35: An Inevitable Entrepreneur

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34: Databases and Digital Newbies

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33: Dreaming Wild, Applying AI

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32: Estimation and Planning

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31: Engineering Software to Software Engineering

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30: Observation and Detail Orientation

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29: Digital Journeys

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28: Emerging from our cocoons

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27: Of Pascal, programming and performing systems

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26: Thoughts and Things

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25: Experiments & Discovery

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24: Helping teams be effective

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23: Building for a global user experience

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22: Empathy, with a dose of patience

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21: Work Life Rhythm

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20: Innovation & Discovery

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19: Just Be - Right Now!

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18: Curiosity, Continuous Learning & Collaboration

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17: Standards, Startups and Spousal support

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16: Happy Customers, Happy Employees.

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15: Puzzles & Perceptions, WorkEthic & Humanistic Insights

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14: Transitions, Transformations and Annual Appraisal for Couples

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13: Architecting software solutions and Conscious career breaks

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12: Mission Critical systems, Basketball and Women in Tech

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11: Testing Stories and the Startup Bug

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10: The Business of Excellence, Coaching & Podcasting

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9: Data Science, Outcomes

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8: Product Engineering, Personal Values and Teamwork

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7: Microproducts & Building to Learn

400

6: Cross Country Cultures

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5: Writing better software by trekking

402

4: World Views and Natural Software Engineering

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3: Power of Conversations

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Managing an Agile Transformation for Success

405

Culture, Protocol, and Other Stories

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