I had the pleasure and displeasure of working at five unicorns, several successful and unsuccessful startups, and nine Fortune 500 companies over my career span. I still have a long way to go in my leadership journey. …

Phone ringing… Hello, this is Pawan. Hello Pawan, This is Shama from Big Barn Software. Our recruiter has shared your profile with me. You are an excellent fit within a product division at Big Barn Software. Pawan: Great to hear from you, Shama! I am passionate about technology. …

It’s time! — “We were happier when we were poor and hungry.” Says CEO. “What do you mean?” Asks CTO. CEO: When you have less money, people stick together because their survival depends on each other. They build more, innovate more, and create a compelling value proposition in the market. Businesses like Apple…

Deflating big data: It’s time to take this road — Big data has its place when data volumes are big, not inflated. The movement has turned it into a herd mentality. Organizations are multiplying small or enterprise data into big data by introducing inefficiencies. It makes the data stack more complex and costs exorbitantly. It also impacts the environment negatively…

Organizations on a digital transformation journey often ask — What is Software Factory? How does it accelerate digital transformation? — It’s not about Agile vs. Waterfall The Software Factory is about the industrialization of software development. We aren’t talking about only the process in which you develop software. Agile is about building a product incrementally versus the Waterfall approach, where we want to spec the entire product in complete detail before we build it out.

The complex data landscape The data landscape is complex in most organizations. No matter how big or small your organization is. The complex data supply chains make it difficult to manage data changes, assess change impact, and mitigate risks in real-time. There’s disparate applications data trail. …

Big Tech has a big responsibility in preventing energy waste. The trend has spread across industries. — The big tech has a megascale for their data center footprint. 32 Mega Watts (MW), 64 MW, 128 MW, and it keeps going up and up in the capacity expansion. That’s a lot of energy consumption! 32MW can light up an entire city in many countries. Look at big tech…

The software factory is an emerging paradigm for mass production of software and continuous innovation. Let us dive into how it enables success at scale. — Business Imperatives We are living in an age where a disruptor gets disrupted quickly. Just look at the success of Instagram, the downward spiral of Groupon and GrubHub. Look at the new disruptive players getting disrupted right now — Splunk, Peloton, and many more.

A mismatch in developer expectations and the reality — Developer Expectations Today, software development is perceived more like art than science. We use free-form processes with fuzzy responsibilities and nonstandard components. Such a development model is called a software workshop. Developers perceive an unstructured development environment as freedom. In reality, as scale grows, it leads to more chaos and frustration. …