Mentoring with a CIO

20-Jan-2019

I touched base with a CIO who use to work with our Bank a month ago, he has moved on to better role and newer challenges elsewhere( i do not want to take his name unless he is comfirtable in me sharing his details here, GDPR you know).

I aspire to follow him and we did have our first formal catchup as a Mentor-Mentee yesterday.

Below are some of his suggestions that i have decided to follow

1. Never use the sentence - "I will try", always use the sentence - "Yes, it will be done". When i try to     understand the real  meaning in it, it means be an ardent executioner and people/Managers will    
    apprecaite it.

2.  dont follow only one mentor, follow couple more - not to create confusion, but to broaden your perspective. So you could have your boss and skip-level-boss as your mentors too, someone from another company who is senior to you could also be one. Yes it sounded interesting and yes it does has some challenges on what would i do if i get conflicting perspectives , how do i chose one over another. i guess i will do it and solve it when i come across it

3.  Creating a yearly Development plan(a Master plan to be ready), which is a living document. Share it with your boss, ur skip level boss, your business colleague, your mentors.  Plan a checkpoint every quarter, evaluate if you are following the plan, adjust if the plan is no longer relevant, all that you need to be agile with


Also, one idea to see your wholesome growth is to have a development plan to have the following quadrants. Suggestions on this is more than welcome as i want to see what other personas should i develop in myself to be a CIO
1. Learning from/on Business/Tech Domain
2. Learning on People reporting to me
3. Learning about the stakeholders/Partners
4. Learning for future

Next meeting is 1st week of Feb 2019

Books to Read & Read ones

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M94lK27d5K2Kz7Ah1cFENvYUcapfY-H9on1emT-vMQ0/edit#gid=1386834576

Newbie DS - 30June2019

I stopped , restarted and stopped again the process of learning DS principles. I will be restarting it once i finish the PSM by Feb2019. Keep looking forward to this space

PSM by 28Feb2019

I want to complete the knowledge gathering of PSM-1 by EOM Feb-2019.

As i continue to work on it, i will keep positing the link i referred and how i had prepared for it. this will continue to be my journal keeping track of my progress, challenges and workarounds(if any) on it

Links as below:

https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game
https://dzone.com/articles/10-tips-to-prepare-for-the-scrumorg-psm-1-assessme
https://www.scrum.org/pathway/scrum-master
https://www.scrum.org/professional-scrum-competencies
https://www.scrum.org/resources/suggested-reading-professional-scrum-master

https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2018?utm_source=agile101-page&utm_medium=text-link&utm_campaign=agile2018#q=~(infinite~false~filters~(postType~(~'aa_event_session~'aa_video)~sources~(~'Agile2018)~eventSessionTypes~(~))~searchTerm~'~sort~'name.sort~sortDirection~'asc~page~1)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004OR1XHY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004OR1XHY&linkCode=as2&tag=scrumorg-20
https://guntherverheyen.com/about/
https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/
https://guntherverheyen.com/
https://www.scrum.org/resources/webcasts
https://www.slideshare.net/RaviVermaPSTPSFPSMPS/80-shades-of-grey-10-tips-to-pass-scrumorg-psm1
https://medium.com/@sanjeev.ramani/how-to-pass-psm-1-self-study-thoughts-tactics-60ae51d0fbb1
https://medium.com/kkempin/how-to-pass-psm-i-certificate-9049bef3fee9
https://mlapshin.com/index.php/scrum-quizzes/
http://psm.certification.guide/
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-pass-the-Scrum-PSM-1-exam
https://www.yodiz.com/blog/how-to-prepare-and-pass-the-professional-scrum-master/
https://www.scrum.org/forum/scrum-forum/7661/psm1-preparation


Free Online Tests
https://www.scrum.org/open-assessments
https://www.testtakeronline.com/welcome.htm

some grumbling and mimblings

My career's northstar is be a CIO/COO for an IT department, preferably within the Financial Services domain. 

That was also the main reason why i decided to pursue MBA at IIM indore.

Currently i am sitting in a place where i do feel i am struck up doing the less value add work. I would need to improve upon myself in a more disciplined and dedicated manner so that i can acheive my North star

There are 3 main streams of IT i am being exposed to

1. Analytics ( minor specilization in MBA, interested in pursuing management roles here)

2. Digital - (part of Digital Banking, being a scrum Master for AccountAggregator feature within MobileApp)

3. IT Project/Program/Portfolio Management

This is today's state of situation. How do i better myself in 3 of them? Is it required to pursue all 3? Analytics + ProgM or Digital + ProgM or Digital + Analytics - how do i decide which of the three i should pursue. 

As i read various articles, any CIO would be into the above 3 in a major way along with the projects which are required to sustain the current operations. I think i am in the right location, probably not yet in the right role.

I will work towards the role and keep bettering me with the skills, knowledge and build experience

To build up into a Data Analytics Business/IT Executive

I want to build this as a route that i have taken to don a role of Data Analytics Business/IT executive.

1.  I have begun the People Analytics course in Courseera to help me in my current role as a PMO
https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-people-analytics/home/welcome (March-2017)

2. 

July-2013

This month has started nicely, but there are some unpleasant things which i do not want to share...I would not want to ever write them..

I had the IIM-Indore interview on 14-JULY-2013. I have given my best and have posted the experience.

Still i need to start the applications which have opened for
IIM-Ahmedabad( by 10-AUG-2013)
IIM-Bangalore(by 30-AUG-2013)
IIM-Calcutta(by 30-AUG-2013)
ISB-Hyderabad(by 15-SEP-2013)
IIM-Lucknow(by 30-OCT-2013)

I hope that i would give my best try and could get the calls from all and could clear at least some of them. They are my best steps towards my aspiration.

I am starting with IIMA application and eagerly waiting on IIM-Indore.