Quest to Deliver Your Best: How to ideate, consistently enhance ability, exceed performance, deliver value, and transform yourself into a world-class software

A book to think beyond technical skills for product owners, business analysts, developers, testers, live support professionals and project managers.

As a software professional or a software engineer or an IT professional,

1. Do you want to ideate, consistently enhance ability, demonstrate capability and deliver your value?

2. Do you want to have newer perspectives, plans and pathways to consistently deliver high performance?

3. Do you want to transform yourself to become a world-class professional?

4. Are you stressed due to timelines, milestones, competition, politics, lack of collaboration?

5. Are you technically brilliant but still not able to grow or demonstrate your presence in your project?

6. Are you being overpowered by others constantly in meetings or discussions?

7. Do you think others are able to influence the leaders and outcomes better than you?

8. Do you think you seem to do everything right but somehow you do not get your desired results ?

9. Are you just a participant in others’ games or do you recognise your game and play your game during a software engagement delivery?

10. Are you a budding software professional and very keen to understand the software industry and the traits required to shine in the industry?

If you answer ‘Yes’ to one or many of the questions then this book is to help you establish yourself, your brand of work to flourish and showcase your capabilities in the eyes of your leadership and customer.It helps you prepare for every software engagement proactively and help you understand how to prevent, manage or overcome stress during challenging meetings, escalations and stressful situations.It gives you insights into the mindset, skills, tools and techniques required to carve a name for yourself in the software industry.

It is a book to help you develop a growth mindset, meta skills and enhance yourself on your questioning, thinking, problem solving, deep thinking and observation skills. It will give you perspectives to understand the importance of leading and playing the role of a team player , collaborating, managing politics and navigating through stressful situations.It will help you frame objectives and move towards those objectives and gives you approaches on how to approach and prepare before, during and after every software engagement.

It is a book for professionals moving or shifting their career into an IT role for the first time or for anyone who wants to get an understanding of what it takes to be successful in an IT role