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#159. Should you use a traditional, waterfall approach to build Power Platform apps?

In this episode, I break down six situations when you might be tempted to use a waterfall method and share my thoughts on whether that's really the best approach.

Highlights

00:11 Everyone should try waterfall at least once.

02:18 When to adopt a waterfall approach

02:53 #1 Predictable and well-defined requirements

04:19 #2 Regulated industries

05:49 #3 Fixed-price contracts

06:59 #4 Small or simple projects

08:02 #5 No agile experience

08:59 #6 Lots of dependencies

10:09 Recap `

Resources

Estimating Agile Business Apps: learn how to quickly, accurately and confidently estimate how long it'll take and how much it'll cost to build your Power Platform or Dynamics 365 app.
Cynefin Model: learn how to approach different problems from simple to complex.
Successful Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps: learn the Scrum framework, prepare for certification and discover my proven practices for successfully applying Scrum for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
Team Topologies: Matthew Skelton discusses how different team topologies can reduce the impact of dependencies across an organisation.

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Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using Scrum

Here's when to use a waterfall approach with Power Platform

Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using Scrum

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MP3•单集首页

#159. Should you use a traditional, waterfall approach to build Power Platform apps?

In this episode, I break down six situations when you might be tempted to use a waterfall method and share my thoughts on whether that's really the best approach.

Highlights

00:11 Everyone should try waterfall at least once.

02:18 When to adopt a waterfall approach

02:53 #1 Predictable and well-defined requirements

04:19 #2 Regulated industries

05:49 #3 Fixed-price contracts

06:59 #4 Small or simple projects

08:02 #5 No agile experience

08:59 #6 Lots of dependencies

10:09 Recap `

Resources

Estimating Agile Business Apps: learn how to quickly, accurately and confidently estimate how long it'll take and how much it'll cost to build your Power Platform or Dynamics 365 app.
Cynefin Model: learn how to approach different problems from simple to complex.
Successful Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps: learn the Scrum framework, prepare for certification and discover my proven practices for successfully applying Scrum for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
Team Topologies: Matthew Skelton discusses how different team topologies can reduce the impact of dependencies across an organisation.

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Preparing for the First Sprint: Design Thinking and Discovery with Hamish Sheild 40:39

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#160. Hamish Sheild is a Microsoft MVP and Power Platform consultant specialising in applying Design Thinking practices to our apps and projects to make them more human-centred. Hamish and I discuss the different activities and artifacts we've experimented with before starting the delivery phase of our Power Platform and Dynamics 365 projects. Join us as we discuss: 03:43 Design thinking exercises and goal setting 08:45 Inclusion of developers in the discovery phase 09:48 Importance of day in the life sessions 11:59 Exploration of design sprints 17:10 Creating customer and user journey maps 18:48 Utilizing user story maps for clarity 24:21 The role of prototyping in projects 25:11 Developing solution blueprints with Dynamics 365 30:18 Size and refinement of initial product backlog 32:02 Establishing environments 32:48 Business process maps 35:35 Crafting stakeholder maps for project success HAMISH SHEILD Hamish Sheild on LinkedIn AppRising Designing Business Applications RESOURCES Avion for user story mapping StoriesOnBoard for user story mapping Miro for visual collaboration RECOMMENDED EPISODES 130 Sprint 1 is Done! 120 Defining Requirements for Complex Power Apps with Hamish Sheild 👋 LET'S CONNECT 🌐 Subscribe to Customery Academy newsletter for new episode announcements and special offers 🟥 Subscribe on YouTube 🟦 Follow on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn 🦋 Neil Benson on BlueSky ⭐ RATE AND REVIEW THE SHOW 👍 Rate Amazing Apps 👨‍💻 MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps…

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Here's when to use a waterfall approach with Power Platform 11:54

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#159. Should you use a traditional, waterfall approach to build Power Platform apps? In this episode, I break down six situations when you might be tempted to use a waterfall method and share my thoughts on whether that's really the best approach. Highlights 00:11 Everyone should try waterfall at least once. 02:18 When to adopt a waterfall approach 02:53 #1 Predictable and well-defined requirements 04:19 #2 Regulated industries 05:49 #3 Fixed-price contracts 06:59 #4 Small or simple projects 08:02 #5 No agile experience 08:59 #6 Lots of dependencies 10:09 Recap ` Resources Estimating Agile Business Apps : learn how to quickly, accurately and confidently estimate how long it'll take and how much it'll cost to build your Power Platform or Dynamics 365 app. Cynefin Model : learn how to approach different problems from simple to complex. Successful Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps : learn the Scrum framework, prepare for certification and discover my proven practices for successfully applying Scrum for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Team Topologies : Matthew Skelton discusses how different team topologies can reduce the impact of dependencies across an organisation.…

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What is Scrum and why should Power Platform teams care? 6:00

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#158. It's 2025, and I still meet Power Platform and Dynamics 365 professionals that don't know what Scrum is or have an incomplete understanding of what Scrum is. Especially in job interviews! In this short episode, you'll learn: What Scrum really is Why it's a framework and not a methodology A simple hack for remembering the 18 components of Scrum 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps: Learn the basics and benefits about adopting agile approach to building business applications. https://customery.com/foundations…

Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using Scrum

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Are Scrum Masters Overrated? 8:21

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#157. Rethink the role of the scrum master. Two recent events—a thought-provoking article by agile coach Maarten Dalmijn and a leave of absence by Matthew, a beloved scrum master in my team—prompted me to question if scrum masters might be overrated. Comparing scrum teams to sports teams like Ultimate Frisbee, where players self-regulate without referees. Imagine a world where your scrum team operates the same way, holding each other accountable and mastering the game without a dedicated scrum master. You'll learn about Maarten's controversial stance: in startups and scale-ups with fewer organizational impediments, having a scrum master might be unnecessary overhead. Instead, Martin suggests that with a deep understanding of scrum, your team could self-manage effectively. I share my own team's bold experiment—replacing a traditional scrum master with a hybrid scrum master-developer. Spearheaded by Sapan, who has extensive experience in both development and scrum, this experiment offers surprising results. It's not a one-size-fits-all solution for all Power Platform teams. But it does highlight the importance of being open to new practices and continuous experimentation in agile development. Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil RESOURCES Maarten Dalmijn on LinkedIn Maarten Dalmijn, 'Are Scrum Masters Too Much Overhead?'…

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Improving Your Scrum Practice - Mastering Professional Scrum - chapter 1 32:48

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#156. Drawing on the book "Mastering Professional Scrum" by Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl, I outline critical areas for team success, such as creating valuable products and understanding organizational influences. I emphasize five core capabilities needed for continuous improvement: teaching, facilitation, coaching, technical excellence, and servant leadership. I discuss the continuous improvement process recommended by Ockerman and Reindl, which includes self-assessment questionnaires and root cause analysis to address team issues. I highlight the importance of the Scrum pillars—transparency, inspection, and adaptation—and shows how sprint events like planning and review foster a culture of empiricism, allowing teams to run experiments and refine their practices based on real-world outcomes. Celebrating the traits of high-performing scrum teams, I underscore the significance of being cross-functional, self-managing, and collaborative. I touch upon practices that bolster collaboration within these teams, such as backlog refinement and pair programming, while also stressing the freedom scrum teams have to define their workflows within Scrum guidelines. You'll also learn about common challenges, such as the absence of key roles during refinement sessions, and recommends using the Five Whys technique to tackle root causes. I provide practical tips like conducting multiple short refinement sessions to prevent release delays. RESOURCES Simon Reindl on LinkedIn Stephanie Ockerman on LinkedIn Mastering Professional Scrum from Amazon (affiliate) Mastering Professional Scrum audiobook on Audible (affiliate) Stephanie Ockerman's site, Agile Socks Mastering Professional Scrum on InformIT…

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Do We Need to Rethink How We Build Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Apps? 8:27

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#155. Explore the importance of rethinking our approach to building business applications. Discover the benefits of questioning our assumptions and adapting to new information in the dynamic landscape of app development. Unpacking the concept of "thinking like a scientist" and its impact on creating agile business apps. Understanding cognitive entrenchment and how it can hinder our progress in app development. Examining how embracing new tools like Power Automate or Azure Data Factory can outdo outdated practices. Learning from personal experiences and external experts to reassess long-held beliefs about health and productivity. Discovering how to stay open-minded to new methods for building Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps without losing sight of effective agile approaches. Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil RESOURCES Microsoft Power Platform Conference, 18 to 20 October 2024 Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast Outlive by Peter Attia Peter Attia’s website Adam Grant’s podcasts Adam Grant’s website Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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The Power of Learning Through Experiments in Power Apps Development 13:16

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#154. Neil Benson takes us on a journey of learning through experimentation. Starting with the historical origins of smallpox inoculation, Neil discusses the importance of conducting experiments to drive innovation and problem-solving. Sharing personal experiences from his biochemistry studies to his current work in building applications with Power Platform and Dynamics 365, Neil emphasizes the value of agile software development and the significance of learning through short bursts of experimentation. He provides insights into real-world experiments with AI Builder and form processing models, highlighting the impact of these experiments on improving business processes. Neil also shares his experimentation with AI features in his own content creation and business operations, encouraging listeners to embrace the mindset of a scientist and continue experimenting. So, tune in to explore the power of learning through experiments and discover how it can accelerate your own journey in building amazing apps. Free Workshop: 3 Secrets to Building Business Apps with Scrum Join this free interactive workshop to discover the three secrets to successfully using Scrum to build agile apps so you can deliver projects faster, under budget, have more fun, and get promoted. https://customery.com/3secrets Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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Should .NET Developers Stick or Switch to Power Platform? 29:00

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#153. Keith Atherton is a proper pro developer. Keith shares his journey from developing custom apps using .NET, C# and SQL Server to embracing and mastering the development of enterprise business applications using the Power Platform. What do developers lose and gain using Power Platform compared to developing an app from scratch with .NET and SQL Server. The power of rapidly prototyping applications in Power Apps even compared to wireframing tools, like Basalmiq. How Keith decides when to use a low-code option or write code to meet a requirement. The value of documenting our own solutions and decisions, even if it's just for our own benefit later. Developers are used to unit testing, automated regression testing, AI-assisted programming. Do you miss those capabilities when working with Power Platform, especially Power Fx? How Keith thinks about keeping his skills up-to-date and mastering so many competencies through a weekly learning routine. Why .NET and C# developers should start with PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals as their starting point for learning how to transfer their skills to Power Apps development. If Keith had a magic wand, Microsoft would enable him to use C# in the Power Fx editor. Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil Keith Atherton Keith Atherton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-atherton/ Keith's blog: https://www.keithatherton.com/ Keith's podcast, On Air in the Cloud: https://onairinthecloud.com/ Resources Keith's courses on LinkedIn Learning: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keith-atherton PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals training on Microsoft Learn: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/power-plat-fundamentals/ Real-world examples of Power Platform solution architectures: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/architecture/real-world-examples/overview CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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Unpacking User Stories and Backlog Refinement with Dani Kahil 49:00

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#152. Host Neil Benson is joined by the talented Dani Kahil for an insightful discussion on managing backlogs and enhancing user stories in Azure DevOps and Jira. Neil shares his experiences with Jira, highlighting some configuration challenges, while Dani expresses a strong preference for Azure DevOps. They dive into the hierarchy of backlog items, including epics, features, user stories, and tasks, and explore different approaches to tracking progress on a Kanban board. Throughout their conversation, Neil and Dani discuss the importance of refining user stories, enriching them with acceptance criteria, and prioritising features based on their value to the team or users. They also touch on the significance of releasing value quickly and iterating on functionality. Join us for an engaging conversation packed with practical insights and tips for efficient backlog management. Let's get started! Dani Kahil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danikahil/ Dani's blog: https://danikahil.com Kahil Consulting: https://kahilconsulting.com/ Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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Super CRM: a case study 20:02

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#151. Amazing Apps host, Neil Benson, dives into a case study from one of his team's own projects: "Member Super", a financial services organisation in Australia. With over a million members, they needed a CRM application that could handle their complex stakeholder relationships and provide exceptional service to their customers. Member Super's existing CRM app was limiting their capabilities and hindering their goal of achieving a single view of their customers. So, they made the decision to take control and build their own CRM application. Superware partnered with them to make it happen, and the results were nothing short of AMAZING! RESOURCES Superware.ai website: https://superware.ai Superware on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/superware-ai Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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A Big Bang? Going Live with Dynamics 365 or Power Platform with Andrew Bibby 45:40

2 years之前45:40

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#150. What does it take to have a successful go live event for your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform application. Neil Benson sat down with Andrew Bibby, a seasoned expert in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business applications. In this episode, Andrew shares his insights on the crucial process of preparing for and executing a successful go live. From addressing technical difficulties to promoting user adoption and measuring success, Andrew sheds light on the often-overlooked aspects of post-delivery project management. He also discusses the importance of training, involving change champions, and effective communication in ensuring a smooth transition. Don't miss this informative episode filled with practical tips for achieving a seamless go-live and maximizing return on investment! RESOURCES Andrew Bibby on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbibby/ Proximo3 on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/proximo3/ Proximo3 website : https://proximo3.com/ Nordic Summit: https://nordicsummit.info/ South Coast Summit: https://www.southcoastsummit.com/ TIMESTAMPS 03:26 Phased go-live events for Dynamics 365 06:06 Effort in successful go-live leads to happiness 08:34 Preparation and rehearsal lead to a successful go-live 12:39 Prepare and do steps before go-live 15:36 Early user involvement is vital for successful projects 21:17 Insufficient thought put into IT project training 25:45 Change management ensures successful projects and user adoption 30:07 Change management enhances project success and communication 33:02 Choosing a go-live day 38:20 Metrics, monitoring, and justification are crucial 42:30 The importance of getting across your message, and change management Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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Breaking Free from the Tyranny of the Deliverable with Andrew Welch 25:55

2 years之前25:55

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#149. Andrew Welch is the Chief Technology Officer at HSO. Andrew is an expert in IT strategy and has a wealth of experience advising customers on their big strategic technology decisions. He is also an author, Microsoft MVP, and a regular presenter at conferences. Joining us today, Andrew shares valuable insights on the importance of IT leadership, cloud ecosystems, data platforms, artificial intelligence, and the future of innovation in technology. We dive into the concept of the "Tyranny of the Deliverable" and how it relates to IT organizations organizing themselves into technology-focused teams. Andrew also discusses the need for a holistic approach to digital transformation and the role of a cloud strategist in piecing together various technical components to drive business value. If you're an IT leader, architect, or consultant, this episode is packed with valuable perspectives and tips from Andrew Welch. Don't miss it! TIMESTAMPS 02:09 Importance of CIOs leading technology ecosystem integration. 04:48 Enterprise architects focus on specific workloads. Another architect, a cloud strategist, is needed for building capabilities and driving business value. 07:55 Microsoft's platform is versatile for mix and match. 11:11 Lunch with Ana Demeny, discussing Microsoft versus Google. 16:09 AI investment: data consolidation for value-delivery. 20:26 Tyranny of the deliverable: siloed teams, wrong solutions, budget incentives, counterproductive. Solution: subscription as a service model. Move away from hourly charges and fixed scopes. 24:55 Andrew presenting 5 strategies at Nordic Summit. RESOURCES Andrew Welch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdwelch Andrew's blog: CloudLight.House: https://CloudLight.house Dynamics 365 and Power Platform UK User Groups: https://d365ppug.com Nordic Summit, 23 September 2023: https://nordicsummit.info Forceworks Services-as-a-Subscription: https://forceworks.com/the-works-from-forceworks Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Amazing CRM & ERP Apps in Manufacturing with Shawn Tabor 32:35

2 years之前32:35

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#148. Get ready for another captivating episode of Amazing Apps! In this episode, Neil Benson engages Shawn Tabor, Director of Consulting Services at Hitachi Solutions, in an insightful conversation about the dynamic realm of Microsoft Business Applications and its role in the manufacturing and service industries. Explore Hitachi's product landscape, investment strategies, and the art of identifying patterns to create accelerators for efficient project estimations. Discover Shawn's podcasting journey, collection hobbies, and upcoming conference plans. Timestamps 05:40 Improving customer experience for manufacturers 07:36 The power of strategic planning 09:56 The challenge of implementing Microsoft ecosystem 10:59 Microsoft investment strategies 14:06 Simplifying field service applications 15:07 Streamlining field service 20:59 Significant implementations across manufacturing, services, and healthcare 21:37 Integration challenges in the field service business 23:34 Power Platform innovations 24:55 Agile methodology RESOURCES Shawn Tabor on LinkedIn Hitachi Solutions website Community Summit NA : 15-20 October in Charlotte, NC Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to my new Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series Estimating Business Apps is a five-part podcast that will help you quickly, accurately and confidently estimate complex Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps in minutes. Listen now: https://estimating-business-apps.captivate.fm/listen…

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Power Platform pipelines or Azure DevOps pipelines for ALM? with Benedikt Bergmann 33:59

2 years之前33:59

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#147. When should you use Power Platform pipelines and when should you use Azure DevOps pipelines to deploy your Power Platform or Dynamics 365 applications? That's the question that Benedikt Bergmann answers in this episode of Amazing Apps. Benedikt is a Power Platform consultant known for his expertise in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Neil and Benedikt delve into the world of ALM, discussing its importance for small and enterprise teams alike. From tools and environments to testing and components outside of solutions. Whether you're a low code app builder or part of a large development team, this episode has something for everyone. Join us as we explore the intricacies of ALM and discover how to deploy and maintain applications in a secure, efficient, and repeatable manner. Register for Benedikt's ALM Training Course Resources Overview of Power Platform pipelines More power with pipelines in Power Platform EasyRepro test framework Playwright test framework Power Platform server on Discord Connect with Benedikt Benedikt on LinkedIn Benedikt on GitHub Benedikt on Twitter Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Can you really gain competitive advantage with Dynamics 365? with Martin Hinshelwood 42:12

2 years之前42:12

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#146. In this episode, we're thrilled to have Martin Hinshelwood from naked Agility join host, Neil Benson. Martin shares his perspectives on improving the success of agile engagements through the role of a consulting product owner, and why you should build your own business applications rather than buy Dynamics 365 if you're looking for competitive advantage. Hit the play button and dive into this insightful conversation between Neil and Martin! Timestamps 02:46 The importance of unique capabilities in a competitive market 06:09 The power of vertical integration 11:58 Outsourcing core business practices 16:37 Risks and rewards in business 21:02 The incompetence of business 31:38 The role of a consulting product owner 33:44 The role of a scrum master in the professional services world 36:56 Using APIs to drive innovation RESOURCES Martin Hinshelwood on LinkedIn Martin Hinshelwood on Twitter naked Agility website naked Agility on Twitter Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Chris Huntingford Doesn't Believe in Citizen Developers 38:38

2 years之前38:38

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#145. We're back with another incredible episode of Amazing Apps, and this time we have an amazing guest on board. Neil Benson is joined by the Low Code Lead & Platform Evangelist at ANS Group, Chris Huntingford. Chris spills the beans on citizen developers, he talks about the concept of ecosystem enablement, the potential of low code platforms, the importance of enabling everyone to build apps and flows, hackathons, and more. Hit the play button and dive into this insightful conversation between Neil and Chris! TIMESTAMPS 00:03:39 The importance of citizen developers 00:07:24 The power of fusion teams 00:09:09 Building skills with hands-on experience 00:13:30 All about hackathons 00:16:38 The importance of ecosystem enablements 00:18:16 The importance of people in digital transformation 00:20:31 Customer shift in app development 00:22:09 The future of Dynamics and Power Platform 00:26:07 What it’s like to work for Microsoft or a partner 00:32:13 The impact of timing on conference attendance 00:34:00 Tips for effective learning and building solutions with Dataverse RESOURCES Chris Huntingford on LinkedIn Chris Huntingford on YouTube That Platform Guy on Twitter ANS Group on LinkedIn Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Joining an existing team as a new scrum master with Matthew Venamore 36:38

2 years之前36:38

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#144. Neil Benson is joined by Matthew Venamore, a scrum master with extensive experience coaching Dynamics 365 teams. Matthew shares valuable insights into the challenges faced by new scrum masters when joining existing teams and emphasizes the importance of empowering the team. He advises taking a standoffish stance initially, observing the team and their work before making any changes or adding value. Matthew shares his personal journey, starting as a software delivery manager and eventually becoming a scrum master. He highlights the importance of coaching and guiding a team towards self-management and offers insights into handling various challenges, such as developers working on product backlog items that are not ready. He discusses the benefits and potential drawbacks of having a definition of done and a definition of ready, emphasizing the need for flexibility and open discussions within the team. Tune in to this enlightening episode of Amazing Apps podcast as Matthew Venamore provides valuable insights and practical advice for both new and experienced scrum masters, shedding light on the importance of empowerment, simplicity, and continuous improvement within agile teams. Matthew Venamore Matthew Venamore on LinkedIn Resources Amazing Apps 45: Live inside my Daily Scrum Scrum Guide Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Who do we need in our Business Apps team? 23:21

2 years之前23:21

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#143. On this episode of Amazing Apps, we discuss resourcing agile teams using the Scrum framework. Neil Benson talks about who we should have on our teams as product owner, developers and scrum master. Should Microsoft partners offer to provide a consultant for every role on the team? Listen in to find out. Timestamps (02:04) Product owner maximizes value, sets goals. (03:02) Product owner orders backlog, ensures focus. (07:52) From business analyst to product owner. (09:32) Ideal product owners. (14:07) External stakeholders. (16:37) QA pros are devs in Scrum teams. (21:30) Scrum master's role and boundaries in coaching. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Smaller Teams, Bigger Wins: how to split your enterprise apps teams 13:02

2 years之前13:02

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#142. Neil Benson discusses the challenges of organizing a large Scrum team to maximize efficiency. He suggests rotating developers between teams and organizing teams around specific components or external systems they need to integrate with. Neil also recommends self-organizing teams and coaches teams to create their own code of conduct and establish expected behaviors. He shares his experience of organizing teams by components in the past at RACQ and why it wasn't the best approach. Resources Scaling Scrum with Nexus on Scrum.org Richard Hundhausen, co-creator of Nexus, on Amazing Apps #136 Timestamps (02:52) Large team split into component-based teams for Scrum framework. (04:49) Organizing teams by component creates interdependencies and hinders productivity; a better approach is having a team with all the necessary skills. (08:27) Allowing developers to form their own teams empowers and trusts them to be accountable for their work, rather than having a manager organize teams. (11:16) Amazing Apps Retrospective: behind the scenes. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Architects in a Scrum Teams with Allan de Castro 37:10

2 years之前37:10

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#141. In this episode of Amazing Apps, podcast host Neil Benson is joined by Allan de Castro, a senior technical consultant for the Power Platform at Avanade France. They discuss their experience applying Scrum to recent projects, including the role of an architect in the Scrum framework. The episode covers key challenges such as the importance of ensuring clarity in the backlog, prioritization of sprints, and addressing technical requirements while focusing on business and added value. [00:06:23] Allan, an architect and technical lead, discusses the challenge of finding their place in a team using the Scrum framework for the first time, and navigating discussions related to technical requirements and architecture while also focusing on business requirements and added value. [00:10:15] Focus on delivering continuous testing value during sprints, even if it means sacrificing some business value. [00:11:56] Agile and Scrum framework used for new project, integrating systems and iterating for development. Customer familiarity with Agile important. [00:13:12] Capture project requirements early to avoid issues in development. [00:16:36] Business analyst helps product owner with basic questions on application building, including object lifecycle. Dynamics 365 provides out-of-the-box features, such as bulk edit mode, without development needed. It can be demonstrated in demo instead of user story. [00:19:10] To successfully execute a Dynamics 365 project using Scrum framework, it is important to ensure technical requirements are included in the backlog and fully estimated. It is also important to train the customer on Dynamics 365 and focus on prioritization during sprints. Custom development must fit into the security models provided by Dynamics. Workshops may be needed to refine new business requirements. [00:24:06] Team delivers daily or every two days into the UAT environment, with testing by a quality insurance person and a dual check by the project owner or business analyst before marking as done. UAT phases were conducted initially, but now testing is continuous without UAT phases. [00:26:13] The architecture and requirements were complicated due to unclear data sources and ongoing system construction. Agile methodology requires clear definitions before development, and cultural differences affect analysis phases. Workshop and design are necessary for identifying potential risks and managing sales territory was a major concern. [00:31:14] Ensure clear backlog, communicate dynamics to team and stakeholders, define sprint process, architect advisory role, avoid influencing sprints. [00:32:34] Dev team used Azure DevOps for backlog management, linking work items to pull requests and builds for easy tracking and communication with end users. They also suggest creating automatic task generation for consistent task patterns. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Running experiments to build Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps 18:38

2 years之前18:38

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#140. Today, it’s just me, and I’d like to discuss what EMPIRICISM means to teams building complex, enterprise Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. In this episode, I’ll break down what empiricism is and its importance in Scrum, provide examples of work that would benefit from an empirical approach, and share insights on how we can use empiricism to build better business apps and improve our processes, tools, and techniques. HIGHLIGHTS [01:45] Why Scrum is based on an empirical process [05:01] Example of how empiricism works [06:21] Why the defined process control is the opposite of empiricism [10:01] The importance of empiricism in Scrum [10:53] Examples of simple work where Scrum is unnecessary [11:42] Examples of more complex work that would benefit from an empirical approach [14:07] What I love most about Scrum [15:50] Lessons that my business apps teams and I learned from our experiments [17:27] My challenge to you RESOURCES What is the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle? OODA Look by John Boyd explained: the process Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s by Ray Kroc Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in Aquorea Victoria Empiricism The Scientific Method Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Agile Testing for Dynamics 365 with Emma Beckett 40:27

2 years之前40:27

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#139. Today’s guest is Emma Beckett, an experienced test professional who runs her own company, Fortitude 17, in London, UK. A professional footballer, Emma pursued a career in software testing, even though her first role in tech was in Desktop Support — hardware, not software! As you’ll hear, Emma is a Certified ISTQB Test Consultant and trained in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM, CE, and HR. She is currently training on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Ceridian Dayforce (HCM) solutions. In this episode, Emma shares how she got into software testing and discusses 1) professional testing, 2) how she approaches business application projects, and 3) what testing at large can bring to Dynamics applications. HGHLIGHTS [01:06] How Emma came to open her own testing consultancy [09:01] Emma’s approach to professional testing [12:48] The qualities that Emma looks for in good test professionals [18:09] The relationship between testing and training [20:00] Approaches to acceptance testing that have worked well for Emma [24:25] How Emma approaches other forms of testing on projects [29:43] How Emma deals with testing challenges [32:28] Other solutions that Emma’s consultancy has worked on [34:22] Emma talks about her recently launched podcast RESOURCES Website: Fortitude 17 LinkedIn: Emma Beckett LinkedIn: Fortitude 17 Check out the elbeckio show Support Amazing Apps Rate this podcast CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Deep Dive into Dynamics 365 Marketing with Malin Martnes 54:01

2 years之前54:01

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#138. Our guest today is Malin Martnes, a Microsoft MVP and MCT who runs her own company MaCoTra AS in Oslo, Norway. As you’ll hear, Malin doesn’t have any technical background on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform but she focuses on using these systems. In this episode, Malin talks about how she came to be a CRM consultant and set up her own consulting business. With years of experience as a user and trainer of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, she also discusses the integration of the HR solution with Finance & Operations, tips for deploying Dynamics 365 Marketing, and the events and training sessions she helped organize. Show Highlights [01:25] Malin’s background and how she got started as a CRM consultant [04:56] The story behind MaCoTra’s unusual name [10:06] Malin talks about the recently concluded Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2023 event [15:16] Malin talks about the Norwegian Marketing Day she co-organized with fellow Microsoft MVP Guro Faller [18:31] Malin discusses the integration of Dynamics 365 Human Resources with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations [22:53] Who Dynamics 365 Marketing and ClickDimensions cater to [26:02] Malin discusses the projects she’s done with Dynamics 365 Marketing [29:25] How Dynamics 365 Marketing handles deliverability [35:35] Malin shares tips to be aware of when deploying Dynamics 365 Marketing [44:08] What’s next for Malin? Resources Malin's company: MaCoTra AS Becoming a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Functional Consultant by Malin Martnes Connect with Malin Martnes on LinkedIn , Twitter , or via her website Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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What's Next for Customery Academy? 15:29

2 years之前15:29

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#137. Customery Academy is the online business through which Amazing Apps host, Neil Benson, trains and coaches Microsoft customers and partners to build amazing, agile business applications. In this episode, Neil shares a short history of Customery Academy, where it's at today, and its goals for 2023. Halfway through editing the episode, there's a surprise about just how many Customery Academy students have achieved their Professional Scrum Master certification thanks to his son's detective work. RESOURCES Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free course Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course Winning Agile Projects masterclass for Microsoft partners Estimating Business Apps course New Zenler online course platform Amazing Applications podcast Podpage podcast website hosting Bonjoro personalised video service Humanitix ticketing checkout Studio1Design web design agency Louise Williams branding expert Karthik Vijaykumar from Design Your Thinking and The Launch Plan podcast BuyMeACoffee Review Amazing Apps on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or AmazingApps.Show Customery on LinkedIn Superware.ai People mentioned Brian Illand Hugues Imbeault Paula Dunlop Dani Kahil Andrew Bibby Hamish Sheild Scott Durow Lisa Crosbie Ben Inkster Nirav Mehta John Bordin Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪…

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Professional Scrum and DevOps with Richard Hundhausen 52:15

2 years之前52:15

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136. My guest is Richard Hundhausen, a former Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Professional Scrum Framework. As you’ll hear, Richard doesn’t have a background in Dynamics 365 or Power Platform, but he’s no stranger to developing apps on Microsoft technology. In this episode, Richard talks about his experience working with Microsoft and how he got started with Scrum. Drawing from his over 30 years of software development experience and over 20 years of training experience, he also discusses the merits of big bang releases versus incremental releases, product thinking versus project thinking, and what’s next with Scrum. Show Highlights [06:07] Richard’s Scrum origin [13:55] Richard’s guidelines for helping a team decide when to adopt Scrum [20:56] On the interplay between Scrum and DevOps [26:06] How product owners can be successful [31:32] Big bang releases versus incremental releases [34:53] The origins of Nexus Scaled Scrum Framework [44:03] Where Scrum is headed next Resources Accentient Nexus Scaled Professional Scrum Framework Professional Scrum Development with Azure DevOps by Richard Hundhausen Connect with Richard Hundhausen on LinkedIn or Twitter "Flaccid Scrum" by Martin Fowler “Should Our Team Use Scrum?” by Richard Hundhausen “Larman’s Laws of Organizational Behavior” by Craig Larman “Role of Manager” by LeSS "Resurrecting the Much-Maligned Scrum of Scrums" by Charles Bradley "unSAFe at any speed" by Ken Schwaber Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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I'm Beginning to Hate Scrum 11:24

2 years之前11:24

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#135. Remy is starting to hate Scrum. He thinks we should use Kanban. And get rid of Product Owners. It's a shame, then, that Remy doesn't understand Scrum. And doesn't want to understand Scrum. Don't be like Remy. Resources Kanban Guide on Kanban University Professional Scrum with Kanban training from Scrum.org Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Is Power Fx really low code? with Rishona Elijah 31:16

2 years之前31:16

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#134. Rishona Elijah is a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, who works as a Power Platform Trainer and Evangelist at Barhead Solutions in Sydney, Australia. She spends most of her time running training sessions and delivering events around Power Platform to business users to show them what they can achieve with this technology. In this episode, Rishona shares how she got started in Business Applications, how she uses her blog to help business users, and the latest innovations with Power Virtual Agents. Rishona also talks about whether Power Fx is really part of a low-code platform and new features from Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance that are being incorporated into Power Platform. Show Highlights [02:05] Rishona’s work at Barhead Solutions [05:47] What Rishona blogs about [07:38] The latest innovations with Power Virtual Agents [13:25] On whether Power Fx dispels Microsoft’s promise of no-code solutions [16:40] The types of people that attend Rishona’s training sessions [21:32] The latest innovations with Power Automate [25:22] How Rishona got into Business Applications [26:47] Rishona’s advice for people thinking about a career in Business Applications Resources Barhead Solutions Connect with Rishona on LinkedIn , Twitter , or TikTok Check out Rishona’s blog Customery Academy Estimating Business Applications Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Power Platform Governance Possibilities with Michael Roth 41:32

2 years之前41:32

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#133. Today’s guest is Michael Roth, a Power Platform consultant with Avanade who specializes in governance. In this episode, Michael walks us through how he keeps business apps amazing by working on only the fun stuff, i.e., governance and licensing, and understanding how users experience tech, specifically Power Platform. Michael also highlights the importance of governance and shares with us some of the biggest mistakes he sees organizations make when they don’t consider governance, what he would like to see Microsoft improve, and more. Show Highlights [03:04] How Michael got into business applications [08:06] The types of people that typically think about governance [12:10] Mistakes organizations make when they don’t consider governance [17:05] How Michael thinks of the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence starter kit [22:20] Benefits of Managed Environments for customers [26:52] What Michael would like to see Microsoft work on next [29:20] On fusion teams and fusion development [35:38] Michael’s style and take on feminism Resources Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps . Learn Scrum, achieve your PSM1 certification, apply successful Scrum patterns to Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps. Avanade Customery on LinkedIn Connect with Michael on Twitter or LinkedIn Check out Michael’s blog Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Using Figma to design business apps with Andrew Ly 49:26

2 years之前49:26

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132. Today’s guest is Andrew Ly, a Microsoft Business Applications Solutioning Lead at IBM Consulting in Australia. Andrew shares his 22 years of experience in the Microsoft space, including the type of work he does and the clients he works with. Andrew also gives his two cents on the low-code, no-code approach and talks about the demand of in a day trainings like App-in-a-Day sessions, Figma, and Power Platform applications. Show Highlights [02:48] Andrew’s background and what it’s like living and working in Australia [05:13] What Andrew and Neil do to keep fit these days [06:58] Andrew’s life at IBM, the type of work he does, and the clients he’s working with [09:50] Maximizing the benefit of having sales systems, and building apps that work the way the individual does [11:31] On helping clients scale up and scale out, and get out of challenging situations [16:59] App in a Day sessions’ demand today [19:05] Training programs that are centered around creating a sense of community internally [24:30] On the acquisition of Figma and why it’s a great tool [31:50] Technology overlapping with Biz Apps, including virtual reality [39:09] Andrew’s suggestions on which areas to specialize in [42:51] Andrew’s plans, including doing more coding and speaking sessions Resources Connect with Andrew on Twitter , YouTube or LinkedIn Read Andrew's blog: 365lyf PCF Gallery Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Deploying Dynamics 365 Field Service with Magnus Sørensen 37:52

2 years之前37:52

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#131. Today’s guest is Magnus Gether Sørensen, a Dynamics 365 Field Service expert at Delegate in Denmark. Magnus shares with us some of the Field Service projects he has worked on, as well as the interesting challenges that his customers have encountered using the application. Plus, Magnus talks about what’s new and next for Field Service and gives a few tips for teams implementing the application. Episode Highlights [0:30] Magnus’ background and his career in business applications [03:29] Magnus’ experience using Dynamics 365 Field Service [06:27] The challenges of using Field Service in Denmark [10:03] On whether Field Service is often integrated with back-office systems [10:58] Demand for resource scheduling optimization [13:45] Comparing Field Service and Resco [17:08] What's new and next for Dynamics 365 Field Service [22:06] Features and changes that Magnus would like to see Field Service implement [24:07] Top three lessons Magnus has for teams building or deploying Field Service [27:44] Magnus’ experience co-organizing Nordic Summit 2022 [30:10] On why the Nordic Summit is a free event Resources Delegate.dk Delegate on LinkedIn Connect with Magnus on Twitter or LinkedIn Follow the Power Platform Weekly newsletter on Twitter Read Magnus’ blog at XRM.DEV Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Sprint 1 is done! 15:19

2 years之前15:19

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#130. Sprint 1 is a magical, wonderful, beautiful thing. Find out how my messy, unstructured and un-estimated sprint 1 unfurled on a recent project to build a Power Platform app for a mid-size Microsoft customer in financial services. In-person conferences I didn't attend: Power Platform Conference Nordic Summit South Coast Summit Upcoming online conferences I'm presenting at: 2 Nov 2022 at Power Platform 24 4 Nov 2022 at New Zealand Business Applications Summit Learn how to qualify, pitch, propose and close more agile projects: Winning Agile Projects Tools we're using in sprint one: Miro for visual collaboration Atlassian Confluence for wiki pages Atlassian Bitbucket and Sourcetree for source control Azure DevOps for backlog, boards and pipelines Slack for chat Zoom for meetings SharePoint for file sharing Copy.ai for AI-assisted creative copywriting Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Estimating Requirements for Your Microsoft Business App 17:02

3 years之前17:02

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#129. Learn how to use story point estimation to estimate the relative size of your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform application's requirements. You'll also learn: How to slice user stories into the right size for estimation and development How to decide on a standard user story for comparing other stories against when estimating How to use affinity estimation or planning poker to estimate the relative size of user stories How to derive the duration that describes how long it'll take to build the feature after you've estimated the size This episode is the third of three episodes taken from my new course: Estimating Business Applications . You can join for free today and get access to the first three sections containing 17 video lessons and 3 quizzes to test your understanding. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Using Story Points to Estimate Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Apps 12:01

3 years之前12:01

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#128. My wife, Natascha, is a faster trail runner than I am. Find out why estimating trail runs in units of time leads to misaligned expectations about how long it'll take for us to run the same trail together. You'll also learn: What story points are Three factors affecting the size of a requirement How to account for Hick's Law and Weber's Law when choosing an estimation scale The two estimation scales commonly used by agile teams The estimation scale my teams use This episode is the second of three episodes taken from my new course: Estimating Business Applications . You can join for free today and get access to the first three sections containing 17 video lessons and 3 quizzes to test your understanding. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Why Estimate Business Apps At All? 20:10

3 years之前20:10

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#127. Do you really have to estimate the effort of building the Dynamics 365 or Power Platform apps you've been asked to build? If you work for a Microsoft partner, you probably do -- unless you work for a customer who doesn't care how much it costs or how long it takes. Find out how I approach estimation: How much and how long? Why estimates are notoriously inaccurate Estimating time doesn't work Estimating t-shirts doesn't either Estimates, forecasts and commitments This episode is the first of three episodes taken from my new course: Estimating Business Applications . You can join for free today and get access to the first three sections containing 17 video lessons and 3 quizzes to test your understanding. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Advanced Estimating Q&A 13:07

3 years之前13:07

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#126. Thanks for all your questions about estimating business applications. In this episode, I tackle four tricky situations when it comes to estimating Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. Should we re-estimate items in our backlog after we’re done because they were easier or harder than originally expected? — Tanika If we don’t complete a story by the end of the sprint, should we re-estimate how much work is remaining and split the story points across the sprints in which the work got done? — Jane Should we estimate user stories or estimate tasks of the user stories? — Naz Should our developers include the time spent in scrum events in their estimates? — Dipesh Resources Estimating Business Applications, my new course available for free from Customery Academy. "When Will It Be Done?: Lean-Agile Forecasting to Answer Your Customer's Most Important Question" by Daniel Vicanti. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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EY's PowerPost reduces lead times by 95% 22:43

3 years之前22:43

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#125. In this episode of Amazing Applications, Emil Hovgaard and Sheelan Bhana of EY Nordic Tech Hub share the story behind EY's PowerPost application and how it has made the General Ledger posting process easier and faster for the EY organization. Emil’s background and his role at the EY organization Sheelan’s background and his role at the EY organization Emil’s favorite Microsoft application Sheelan’s favorite Microsoft application What Emil did during his time in the EY strategy team in Australia The internal purpose of the EY organization The business challenge that Emil’s team had to solve that led to the creation of the PowerPost application The approach that Emil and his team took in building the PowerPost application Sheelan talks about connecting to SAP from a Power Platform application and the challenges that came with that What the PowerPost project team looked like Emil’s definition of a Fusion team Sheelan’s experience working with Fusion developers What drove members of the EY Global Finance and ERP teams to support the creation of the PowerPost application? How Sheelan and the team gathered requirements The tools that Sheelan and the team used in building the PowerPost application The testing approach that Sheelan and the team used How long did the PowerPost project take? The challenges that Sheelan and the team faced during the course of the PowerPost project How did Emil and his team approach user interface design? How Nordic Tech Hub is responding to the possibility of users demanding more from Microsoft business applications The results that EY managed to achieve using the PowerPost application What’s next for Nordic Tech Hub? Resources EY helps enable entry at source for a global finance process with Power Platform, reducing lead times by 95 percent on Microsoft Customer Stories. Emil Hovegaard on LinkedIn Sheelan Bhana on LinkedIn Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Documenting Power Platform Applications 10:30

3 years之前10:30

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#124. When you're using an agile approach, like Scrum, how and when should you document your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform applications? After all, the Agile Manifesto says, "We value working software over comprehensive documentation", right? Before projects start, my teams document requirements in a product backlog, visualise the backlog in a user story map, and discuss the project during a solution blueprint review workshop. During sprints, we're writing unit tests, functional test cases, describing our features in wiki pages and tracking our decisions in a decision register. Towards the end of the project or before a production release, we'll export the wiki as an as-as-built solution design document and hand it over the axe-wielding psychopaths who will be supporting and maintaining our applications. And, of course, we'll produce all the other documentation our product owner asks us to if she create documentation-related items and prioritises them in the product backlog. RESOURCES Microsoft Learn: Create a solution blueprint for Dynamics 365 solutions FastTrack Solution Blueprint presentation template Write unit tests with FakeXrmEasy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Sprint Goals for Microsoft Business Apps 12:47

3 years之前12:47

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#123. Learn how to use sprint goals to communicate to your stakeholders what your team has committed to building this sprint. If you can write your sprint goal in the subject line of the sprint review invitation to your stakeholders, and they stampede to accept your invite and beat down the door at sprint review, that's a great sprint goal. This episode includes examples of sprint goals for Dynamics 365 and Power Apps projects and answers sprint goal questions like: What's the benefit for having a good sprint goal? How do we write good sprint goals? How can we use sprint goals? Can we have more than one sprint goal? How do we create a sprint goal for lots of different unrelated items? What sprint goal is your team working on? Let me know on LinkedIn. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Can You Build Power Apps Without a Product Owner? 8:07

3 years之前8:07

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#122. Ethan is a scrum master for a Power Platform team and his team is trying to build an app but the customer's product owner hasn't shown up yet! What should he do? If your team's product owner is missing in action, in this episode you'll learn how to prevent this situation from happening, what to do to recover, and what could happen if you don't. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Power Platform governance at a global scale with Rene Modery 36:45

3 years之前36:45

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#121. What's it like trying to manage 10 Microsoft 365 tenants with hundreds of environments, apps and citizen developers. Rene Modery, Power Platform Technical Lead shares his journey at global advertising company, WPP. Managing ten Microsoft 365 tenants for a global company with hundreds of subsidiaries. Power Platform environment policies and other guard rails to help makers. How do you know what apps have already been built and what problems have already been solved within a large organisation so that makers don't reinvent the wheel? Which data sources and connectors are proving to be the most popular in your Power Platform environments? SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Excel, Azure SQL, Dataverse? Why Rene is not ready to ask makers to standardise on Dataverse quite yet. How the new Fluent UI controls will help app makers build apps that are better looking and more useful. If Rene could direct the Microsoft product teams to improve one thing, it would be...licensing! And he'd love to see some of the Center of Excellence features brought into the Power Platform Admin Center too. And in person events are returning to the Power Platform user groups in Singapore. Resources Rene Modery on Twitter Rene Modery on LinkedIn Rene's book, Hands-On Microsoft Lists Singapore Power Platform User Group Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Defining Requirements for Complex Power Apps with Hamish Sheild 34:09

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#120. Hamish Sheild describes his five step Solution Mapping framework for using design thinking principles to define the requirements for complex Power Apps. Hamish has discovered Outlook's Board View and Neil is evaluating Motion for improving productivity. AppRising's Solution Mapping Framework What is a complex application? Observing users in their environment Customer journey mapping Swimlane business process mapping Are as-is process diagrams worth the effort? Creating a product backlog of user stories Focusing on value when creating a user story What's the right level of detail for user stories? Establishing a Power Platform centre of excellence. Are centres of excellence only for organisations with lots of 'citizen developers'? Resources Hamish Sheild on LinkedIn AppRising on LinkedIn AppRising website Microsoft Outlook Boards View videos on YouTube AppRising's Solution Mapping Framework for gathering and defining requirements for bespoke Power Platform applications. Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Group, Auckland, New Zealand Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Is Pre-Sales the Key to Power Platform Success? with Craig McGeough 43:54

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#119. What's the role of pre-sales in setting up Microsoft customers and partners for successful Dynamics 365 and Power Platform projects? Today's guest is Craig McGeough, Power Platform Pre-Sales Consultant at Incremental Group. Make sure you catch Craig's session, More than "selling the dream"! Why Pre-Sales is the key to Power Platform success , at Scottish Summit on Friday, 9 June 2022. Register for free today at ScottishSummit.com . What is pre-sales? Why do pre-sales consultants get paid soooo much? Do pre-sales consultants need a delivery or sales background? Industry specialisation in pre-sales The best thing about being a pre-sales consultant Keeping up-to-date with Power Platform enhancements Pre-sales and licensing expertise Microsoft Catalyst and Design Thinking as a pre-sales tool What's the role of pre-sales consultants in project estimation? Should pre-sales consultants care about delivery capacity? Career growth for pre-sales consultants RESOURCES Craig's blog: PracticalPresales.com Craig McGeough on LinkedIn Incremental Group Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪…

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Power Pages and Beyond! with Ulrikke Akerbæk 23:18

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#118. Ulrikke Akerbæk joins to discuss what's new with Power Pages (still called Power Apps Portals when we recorded this episode under NDA!). Discover some of the goodies Microsoft has been releasing for professional developers Power Pages and which portal template Ulrikke uses for almost every portals project. Announcing the preview of Microsoft Power Pages on the Power Apps blog. Ulrikke is the Low Code Platform Lead at Itera in Norway and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2021. Ulrikke is presenting ' Portal Templates - What's new? ' at Scottish Summit on Saturday 10 June 2002. Register today for Scottish Summit . RESOURCES Ulrikke Akerbæk on LinkedIn Ulrikke Akerbæk on Twitter Nick Doelman on LinkedIn Victor Dantas on LinkedIn Victor Dantas' Portals Zero to Hero 1 playlist on YouTube Victor Dantas' Portals Zero to Hero 2 playlist on YouTube Nordic Summit, 24 September 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden Power Platform User Group Norway Find a Power Platform user group Find a Dynamics 365 user group Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Answer These Five Questions Before You Build Anything with Chike Eduputa 23:41

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#117. Chike Eduputa challenges citizen developers (and professional developers) to ask themselves five critical questions before building their next Power Platform or Dynamics 365 app. Chike Eduputa is a senior manager at Capgemini Invent in London where he specialises in digital strategy and transformation. He's presenting at Scottish Summit on 9 June with the topic " Build what matters: critical metrics for citizen developers ". Register today for Scottish Summit . Chike invites us to answer five questions before embarking on a project to build a business application. Listen to the episode to find out more. RESOURCES Chike Eduputa on LinkedIn Capgemini Invent Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Six challenges of enterprise Dynamics 365 projects with Andrew Bibby and Dani Kahil 48:48

3 years之前48:48

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#116. Dani Kahil interviews Andrew Bibby about a pivotal, multi-year Dynamics 365 business transformation project in financial services. Dani Kahil and Andrew Bibby are both Microsoft Business Applications MVPs. Dani is an independent consultant and online trainer specialising in requirements analysis and solution envisioning. Andrew Bibby is a founder of Proximo 3, a Microsoft training and advisory partner based in the UK. Dani and Andrew discuss: How Andrew's client engaged him as an advisor to help the customer and their Microsoft partner organisations work effectively together. They started with a proof of concept to evaluate the Dynamics 365 platform and their agile way of working. The customer had an application landscape including Dynamics 365, Azure, and on-premise systems. How a single productivity business goal supported the project's business case. Grappling with an agile approach and ultimately settling on a hybrid approach that involved lots of upfront requirements analysis and design (and the affects of this). The importance of both the product owner and the scrum master in an agile team. Using Azure DevOps to track requirements and realised the value in requirements traceability all the way from inception through to production releases. Configuring Azure DevOps with a custom work item template to make it easier to capture requirements. Challenges ensuring user stories were sufficiently detailed so that developers could understand them and how the team experience and tackled the challenge of requirements changing (or being clarified) mid sprint. The value that estimation techniques, like planning poker, can have on helping developers understand the requirements. Difficulties co-ordinating and communicating changes across multiple work streams so that everyone understands changes to processes, requirements, data models or APIS that might affect their work. How solution architects can play a role in communicating changes across work streams. Andrew's growing enthusiasm for change management, Prosci training and certification, and the positive impact that professional change management has on business application adoption. RESOURCES Dani Kahil on LinkedIn Dani Kahil's blog Dani Kahil's Functional Consulting online training course - Requirements analysis for a successful project delivery for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform Andrew Bibby on LinkedIn Andrew Bibby on Twitter Proximo 3 website Prosci change management training Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Application Eggs and Change Chickens with Angeliki Patsiavou 23:10

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#115. Angeliki Patsiavou is on a mission to help Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform application development teams introduce professional change managers to their projects from inception instead of deferring it until near the end. Angeliki is a senior consultant at Avanade, specialising in change management, and has a background as a change manager at HSBC and a digital marketer. Join us as we highlight her upcoming presentation at Scottish Summit, "The chicken-egg dilemma; should product development or change management come first in CRM systems?" RESOURCES Angeliki Patsiavou on LinkedIn Angeliki Patisavou on Twitter Register today for Scottish Summit (655 tickets remaining). Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Personalise Your Customer Experience with Dynamics 365 with Guro Faller and Tricia Sinclair 22:00

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#114. I'm joined by Microsoft MVPs Guro Faller and Tricia Sinclair. Guro and Tricia are presenting at Scottish Summit in Glasgow in June. Their presentation is "Personalize Your Customer Experience with Dynamics 365". It's going to be a showcase of the art of the possible with Dynamics 365 Marketing, Customer Insights, and Omni-channel for Customer Service. Guests Tricia Sinclair is a customer service lead at Avanade, and she's based in London in the UK. Tricia Sinclair on LinkedIn Tricia Sinclair on Twitter Tricia's blog EverythingD365 on Azure DevOps and Dynamics 365 Guro Faller is a solution lead in the digital marketing center of excellence also at Avanade, and she's based in Oslo, in Norway. Guro Faller on LinkedIn Resources Register for Scottish Summit (only 685 tickets remaining) Register for Scottish Summit Pub Quiz on Eventbrite Microsoft Customer Experience Platform announcement Customer Experience User Group Power Platform School Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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From the Basement to the Cloud with Vivian Voss 23:48

3 years之前23:48

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#113. Vivian Voss joins me to discuss her upcoming Scottish Summit session, From the Basement to the Cloud - Your Journey from CRM on-premises to Dynamics 365 CE . Register today for Scottish Summit . Congratulations to Yacob Shenkute from Power Platform School for achieving his Scrum.org PSM1 certification . Resources Vivian Voss on LinkedIn Vivian Voss on Twitter Vivian's blog Customer Experience Platform user group Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Power Platform at the Heart of Scotland’s New Recycling Scheme 38:01

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#112. Dani Kahil interviews Paddy Byrne about the Power Platform's role in enabling Scotland's new recycling scheme for single-use drinking containers. Scots people are famous for being careful with their money so I imagine any program to pay them for recycling containers was always going to be a big hit. Learn about Paddy's Power Platform team: Meeting public-sector's accessibility and security requirements with a custom web portal rather than Power Apps Portals. Internal project team of a functional consultants, project manager/scrum master, and business analyst; and a client project team with an architect and testers. Challenges of using Scrum for the first time for two teams. How do you gather requirements for a brand new application with no users or processes? Dealing with the customer's hands-off product owner. Working to a fixed-date release determined by government legislation. Handling requirements written by people that don't have a lot of experience working with Power Platform applications. Using Miro to help refine the user stories and provide developers with visual understanding. Structuring requirements into epics, user stories and tasks in ad-hoc backlog refinement workshops. Testing within the sprint and releasing to a test environment for the internal portal development team to build on. Resolving schema changes during the development and managing the downstream impact on the portal developers. Fixing bugs in the application as they arrive in the product backlog. Creating FastTrack solution blueprints -- is it a good idea for small projects? Value of setting expectations early and building a high performing team as soon as possible using Tuckman's forming-storming-norming-performing model of team development. Transparency and industry expertise of a passionate product owner. Resources Dani Kahil on LinkedIn Dani Kahil's blog Dani Kahil's Functional Consulting online training course - Requirements analysis for a successful project delivery for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform Paddy Byrne on LinkedIn Paddy Byrne on Twitter Paddy Byrne's blog Virtual Power Group Scotland website Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Start Here: How to Build Amazing Apps 37:13

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#111. Start here to learn why, when and how to use an agile approach to build Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. In this episode, you'll learn: Why I use an agile approach building Dynamics 365 and Power App When an agile approach is suitable and when it's not The benefits that Microsoft customers and partners experience using an agile approach What agile actually means, the history of agile software development, and the principles and values in the agile manifesto The basics of the Scrum framework, and how to get certified in it Finally, some proven practices that I think that business apps teams need to learn to complement the Scrum framework to have wildly successful projects To learn more about adopting an agile approach, take my free Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Applications mini-course. If you're ready to learn Scrum, achieve your Scrum.org PSM1 certification and learn my proven practices for applying Scrum to Microsoft Business Apps projects, join my Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course. If you're a Microsoft partner applying Scrum to your projects and you're ready to win more agile projects, apply for my Winning Agile Projects masterclass. Resources The Manifesto for Agile Software Development "The New, New Product Development Game", Harvard Business Review The Scrum Guide 2020 Professional Scrum Master 1 certification at Scrum.org Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free mini-course at Customery Academy Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Winning Agile Projects masterclass at Customery Academy Customery Academy on YouTube Customery on LinkedIn Customery on Twitter Agile Apps user group Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Testing Heaven: When Should We Test Power Platform Apps? 13:15

3 years之前13:15

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#110. My current team is stuck in Limbo. We've finished development of a Dynamics 365 application for a local government department and we're tapping our fingers waiting for acceptance testing to start. What should agile testing look like on a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform project? I describe my agile testing Heaven, and the next best thing, Elysium. And what it's like to be stuck in Limbo. What does testing look like on your business applications projects today? Resources Agile Testing | https://amzn.to/3rCzDEf More Agile Testing | https://amzn.to/3gCBLFO Continuous Delivery | https://amzn.to/3JbHKO0 Links to Amazon books are affiliate links for which I receive a small commission. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Enterprise CRM with scaled Scrum at RACQ 49:57

3 years之前49:57

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#109. In this special episode, I'm interviewed by Dani Kahil about my experience delivering an enterprise CRM project at RACQ (the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland). RACQ is a membership organisation serving two million people in Queensland with roadside assistance, insurance and banking services. In 2018, they set out to replace two legacy systems with Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Apttus and I had the pleasure of leading their Dynamics 365 delivery team. Resources Dani Kahil's website Dani's course: Functional Consulting - requirements analysis for a successful project delivery Dani Kahil on LinkedIn Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Behind the Scenes of Amazing Apps 18:20

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108. If you're considering starting a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform podcast in 2022, or just wonder what's involved in producing a podcast episode, join me for a behind the scenes look at my four step episode production process. If you have any questions about starting a business apps podcast, I'd love to do my best to help. Email me at amazingapps@customery.com . Resources Some of these resources include affiliate links that could result in a commission paid to me so that I can blow off my consulting engagements and just podcast all day. Preparation Amazing Apps Ideas - my crowd-sourced content calendar for podcasts and videos Calendly - the scheduling service I use to schedule guest interviews Amazing Apps Guest - my resource page for potential guests on the Amazing Apps podcast GlideGear telepromter - I upgraded from a Parrot teleprompter to GlideGear to hold a tablet PromptSmart Pro - voice-activated teleprompter software for iOS and Android Recording Squadcast - for recording high-quality, lossless audio and video with remote guests Audacity - free audio recording, editing and mastering software for Mac and Windows RØDE Procaster - studio and broadcast quality, dynamic XLR microphone RØDE PSA1 - study microphone boom arm that I also used for a video camera RØDECaster Pro - audio production studio for remote and local podcast recording and mixing RØDE Lav+ - lavalier/lapel mic that I use when recording audio for video RØDE Wireless Go - wireless microphone system I use when recording audio for video Production Descript - all-in-one transcription, audio and video editing, mixing and mastering software Auphonic - automatic audio mastering service Buzzsprout - amazing podcast host for Amazing Applications Podpage - amazing website host for Amazing Applications Recommended resources for learning more about podcasting How to start a podcast in 2022 - Pat Flynn on YouTube Power Up Podcasting - online course by Pat Flynn at SmartPassiveIncome Best free podcast courses for 2022 - blog post by Buzzsprout Best podcast set ups for every budget - blog post by Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Blended Teams: Customer and Partner Co-development 15:36

3 years之前15:36

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#107. What would you do if you ran a Microsoft partner business and your customer wanted to stack your scrum their with their developers? This is the story of Selina who runs Gotham Heroes. Her customer, Bruce at Gotham Orphanages, wants Selina to include a couple of the orphanage's developers onto the team. But the developers don't have any experience with Dynamics 365 or Power Platform. And Selina's team are already a little behind schedule. Would you refuse and keep control of the team so that you can keep the project on schedule? Or would you adopt your customer's developers and run a blended team to keep your customer happy? Find out what I would do and what's holding us back from the option I recommend. Resources 📺 Should Microsoft partners include customer developers in their teams? | Customery Academy on YouTube Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Product Backlog Refinement: Who's Involved? (And Why!) 15:15

3 years之前15:15

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#106. You and the Microsoft Business Apps product owner are on Teams going through the product backlog. You two are working on it together because that’s how it has always been done. And yet, when you look back at the last few sprints, you realize that is not getting the desired results. It’s not your fault; it’s a systemic problem. The problem is that it is incredibly common for only one stakeholder -- the product owner -- to be involved in backlog refinement, but the ideal would be if all the relevant people were there! If you've been asking yourself who else should be involved in backlog refinement, you’re in good company—most Dynamics 365 and Power Platform application teams need a little help to come up with the answer. Resources Amazing Apps show website Amazing Apps Show on LinkedIn Amazing Apps Show on Twitter Customery Academy website Customery Academy on YouTube Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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How Did You Get Scrum Master Training? 10:41

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#105. Dan Foster, a senior consultant and solutions architect at CRM Dynamics, asks, "Have you found much benefit from your being a scrum master? If so, how did you get that training?" I've taken the Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster training and certification and the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master training and certification. Find out which one I recommend for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform professionals and why. You'll also find a video accompanying this podcast episode on the Customery Academy YouTube channel . Resources Dan Foster on LinkedIn Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster training Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master training (recommended) Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course (with discount coupon YouTube20) Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Should You Assign Stories to Developers in Sprint Planning? 9:47

3 years之前9:47

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#104. Should we assign items to a developer during sprint planning? Some of my scrum teams building Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications assign sprint backlog items to a named developer during the sprint planning event. Is that a good idea or not? That’s the question we’re going to be answering in this episode of Amazing Applications. Resources "The New New Product Development Game", Harvard Business Review Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps, Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Microsoft FastTrack Success by Design with Seth Kircher 43:59

4 years之前43:59

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103. The Microsoft FastTrack Success by Design implementation guide was first published in May 2021 and has refreshed this month (October 2021) in the 2021 Wave 2 update . What is Success by Design? Is it the latest incarnation of the Dynamics SureStep methodology or is it a new framework that all Dynamics 365 partners should consider adopting for their enterprise projects? To find out, I'm joined by Seth Kircher. He's the Principal FastTrack Solution Architect Manager for Microsoft FastTrack's solution architects in the Americas. We dig into the role of FastTrack, the origins and benefits of Success by Design and its future. Resources Seth Kircher on LinkedIn Success by Design Implementation Guide Success by Design on Microsoft Docs Success by Design on Microsoft Learn Success by Design recorded training workshops Rachel Profit's Success by Design Nuggets playlist on YouTube Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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"OMG, I love your new system. It's so easy to use!" with Bruce Sithole, 365 Mechanix 30:18

4 years之前30:18

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#102. Bruce Sithole's team at 265 Mechanix built a Power Portal application for a business to business lender that earned some serious kudos for his customer. Find out how in this episode of Amazing Applications. We also cover: Starting your own Microsoft partner business What is takes to achieve FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect Which is better: FTRSA award or MVP award? Building amazing Power Power applications What night to release a new deployment Using feature flags in our applications Working in hybrid teams: customer and partner together Microsoft Australia traineeship program Resources Bruce Sithole on LinkedIn 365 Mechanix on LinkedIn FastTrack Recognized Solution Architects | Microsoft Dynamics 365 FastTrack Recognized Solution Architects | Microsoft Power Platform Microsoft Traineeship Program Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Business Transformation with Microsoft Business Apps with Lipi Sarkar 15:42

4 years之前15:42

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#101. DynamicsCon starts next week. Lipi Sarkar is presenting two sessions at DynamicsCon and joins me to share the highlights from her presentations as well as her book, Build a Digital Future. Resources Register for DynamicsCon Lipi Sarkar on LinkedIn Samit Saini and Eric McKinney on LinkedIn Building a Digital Future by Lipi Sarkar and Vinny (Amazing affiliate link) South Coast Summit conference Scottish Summit conference Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Mastering Dynamics 365 Requirements in Azure DevOps with Dani Kahil 24:28

4 years之前24:28

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#100. Are you looking for better ways to manage your Dynamics 365 and Power Platform requirements in Azure DevOps? Join me and Dani Kahil as we explore what it takes to master your requirements. Why use Azure DevOps to manage requirements? Structuring requirements into epics, features and user stories Using a definition of ready to manage your backlog Is requirements approval an anti-pattern? Using different types of items in Azure DevOps Choosing an Azure DevOps process: Scrum or Agile? Adding attachments in DevOps Handling sub-tasks and defects How much detail should a user story have? When is a user story too small? Who writes user stories in Dynamics 365 projects? Resources Register for DynamicsCon and attend Dani's session, Best Practices to Manage D365 Requirements in Azure DevOps at 9am, US Eastern, on Monday 20 September 2021. Dani Kahil on LinkedIn Dani Kahil's blog Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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How to Design Forms for Amazing User Experiences with Mary Ann Castro 24:11

4 years之前24:11

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#99. We all know that good form design is important especially when we're building model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365 apps. But what actually makes a good form design? Join me as Mary Ann Castro shares her secrets of effective form design from her upcoming presentation at DynamicsCon. Resources Mary Ann Castro on LinkedIn Register for DynamicsCon Special mention to Andrew Butenko , Amey Holden and Dian Taylor Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Hello, My Sweet Chatbot 🥰 with Dian Taylor 18:35

4 years之前18:35

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#98. Hey everyone, Dian Taylor is here! Dian is a two-time MVP and a director of pre-sales at RSM US. She's presenting, 'Getting Started with Power Virtual Agents' at DynamicsCon on 20 September. So I invited Dian onto the Amazing Apps show to tells us all about Power Virtual Agents and give us a sneak peek into her presentation. We discuss the summer weather in Florida and the easy life of pre-sales as well as some serious topics such as how amazing chatbots can provide an awesome customer experience while others want to make you throw your computer out the window. Discover why Dian thinks I should start my chats with "Hello, my sweet chatbot... 🥰" Resources Dian Taylor on LinkedIn D365Goddess on Twitter D365Goddess on YouTube D365Goddess website Register for DynamicsCon Register for Summit North America Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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5 Reasons To Avoid Analysis in Advance 19:44

4 years之前19:44

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#97. I share five reasons why I think you should avoid analysis in advance when you're building Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. My five top reasons: Peak ignorance. You're analyzing the requirements during the period when your stakeholders know least about Microsoft business applications and your analysts know least about their needs. Priority categorization. Your requirement specification doesn't order the requirements by business value. Over-engineering. Your requirements are likely to lead to over-engineered complexity and a rejected user experience. Wasted effort. You're spending time chasing the illusion of completeness and putting yourself at risk of a significant change that will derail your requirements specification. Opportunity cost. By deferring deployment you're deferring the benefits, and costing your organization money. Resources Scrum.org Customery Academy Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Advanced Product Owner Questions 20:13

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#96. I continue the deeper dive into the role of the Product Owner with advanced Product Owner questions. This episode covers: Can the product owner role be combined with scrum master or developer? Which product owner certification that I recommend? Making decisions about the product backlog, Whether the Product Owner needs to be technical, What's the difference between a product owner and a project manager? Whether the product owner has to accept the developers' increments in the sprint review? What does a typical sprint look like for a product owner? Resources Books to support Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) certification (Amazon affiliate links): The Professional Scrum Product Owner by Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham Product Mastery: From Good to Great Product Ownership by Geoff Watts Agile Product Management with Scrum by Roman Pichler Customery Academy Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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10 Product Owner Myths on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Projects 18:21

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#95. I continue the deeper dive into the role of the Product Owner, who is responsible for maximizing the impact of the application that the scrum team is building. And I think our product owners in Power Platform and Dynamics 365 projects have a couple of twists compared to product owners on other scrum teams. This episode covers 10 myths about Product Owners. Resources Customery Academy Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Product Goals for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 13:46

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#94. I dive deeper into getting into the right mindset to build applications. In the last episode, we looked at ten potential candidates for the product owner role in our scrum teams building Power Platform and Dynamics 365 applications. In this episode, we're going to continue the product owner topic by helping the product owner set a product goal. This episode covers: The 2020 edition of the Scrum Guide's reference to Product Goals. Where Product Goals sit in the overall goal hierarchy. Bringing the Goal Hierarchy to life with an example from a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform project. How Product Goals and product backlogs are related. Resources How to Lead in Product Management by Roman Pichler Product Goals in Scrum | Roman Pichler Product Goals in Scrum | Roman Pichler on YouTube Customery Academy Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Who Makes the Best Scrum Product Owner? 24:54

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#93. I dive deeper into getting into the right mindset to build applications, including using the Scrum agile approach. This episode covers: Why the Product Owner is the most critical role in the Scrum team. The accountability of the Product Owner. Which type of person within an organisation makes the best Product Owner. Resources Product Mastery - from good to great product ownership, by Geoff Watts Agile Product Management with Scrum, by Roman Pichler Professional Scrum Product Owner, by Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham Professional Scrum Product Owner training courses and the PSPO I certification Scrum.org Customery Academy Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Apps for Winning Awards with Gail Mercer-MacKay, Mercer MacKay Solutions 37:44

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#92. Join me with Gail Mercer-MacKay, the founder and CEO of Mercer-MacKay. They have a unique position in the Microsoft ecosystem: they help Microsoft partners clarify their marketing message and produce compelling digital content that inspires Microsoft customers to take action. Our discussion covers: Why Mercer-MacKay decided to Deploy Microsoft business applications internally. Gail's perspective on choosing a Microsoft business applications partner. The process of building the Minimal Viable Product in just 8 weeks. Hurdles and roadblocks encountered during the development of the tool. Resources Gail Mercer-MacKay on LinkedIn Mercer MacKay Solutions - Digital Storytelling DaXai Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards Gavriella Schuster on LinkedIn StoryBrand book StoryBrand training Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Power BI Deferred Design with Reza Rad, RADACAD 48:40

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#91. Join me with Reza Rad, the founder and CEO of RADACAD providing Power BI training and consultancy services to thousands of Microsoft customers and partners every year. Reza's list of achievements is pretty embarrassing. He's not just a 10 times Microsoft MVP. He's a Microsoft Regional Director. He's written over 15 books on data analytics, in addition to dozens of courses on RADACAD. He's been a speaker at dozens of industry conferences and used all of that experience to organize and host the Power BI summit for over 3000 people earlier this year, as well as the Difinity conference in New Zealand, SQL Saturday, New Zealand BI user groups, and the list goes on and on. Our discussion covers: The story behind Reza's successful training academy. The difference between the approach the Microsoft customer typically takes with a Dynamics 365 project and the approach they normally take with Power BI. Areas where Reza's Power BI customers typically run into trouble: architectural challenges as they scale up, and visualization challenges about representing their data in a truthful, insightful way. What's coming next for Power BI which is exciting Reza and the Power BI community. Resources Reza Rad on LinkedIn Radacad on LinkedIn Radacad Online Academy Alberto Cairo Visualization Expert Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Building a CRM App for Financial Advisors with Stephen Handley, Fin365 43:50

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#90. Join me with Stephen Handley,founder, CEO and chief architect at Fin365, an application development business serving financial services professionals in Australia. Fin365 was born out of need for better data management practice management platform that Stephen identified in his own financial planning business. Our discussion covers: How Stephen's background of being a software developer and a financial adviser could be the perfect blend of expertise for his application development business. What led to the choice of Microsoft Dynamics over Salesforce or Zoho or others? How a product from the heavily regulated Australian financial services industry can be adapted for other international markets and their regulations. What it is like selling a product to the financial industry which is under so much transformation. Advice to startups thinking about or who already started developing on the Microsoft Power Platform. Resources Amey Holden and Neil Benson Pimp LinkedIn profiles Stephen Handley on LinkedIn Fin365 on LinkedIn Fin365 website Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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A Power Apps Portal for 1 Million Users in 100 hours with Mohammed Mohsin Khalid, Imperium Dynamics 42:17

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#89. Join me with Mohammad Mohsin Khalid. And he's the founder, CEO and chief architect at Imperium Dynamics. He and his team built a Power Portal to support a million constituents booking their COVID test appointments, and they did it in less than 100 hours. Our discussion covers: The physical logistics of drive-up COVID testing for thousands of people. Why custom scheduling was used instead of the inbuilt scheduling functionality of the Dynamics Healthcare Accelerator on Power Platform The unique challenges faced when developing an application to be scalable for a million people to use. The kinds of building blocks available in the Healthcare Accelerator that can be used. Lessons learned from building an application in a very short timeframe. Resources Power Platform User Group Public Preview Power BI User Group Public Preview Dynamics 365 User Group Public Preview Agile Applications virtual user group Mohammad Mohsin Khalid on LinkedIn Rapid Digital Transformation Partner | Imperium Dynamics Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare | Microsoft FHIR [Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources] Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Adopting the Power Platform with Brendan Eger, Partners in Health 39:39

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#88. Join me with Brendan Eger, an Associate Director of Information Systems and Analytics at Partners In Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Brendan's story is a fascinating journey of a small, bootstrapped team adopting the Power Platform. Our discussion covers: Knowledge sharing within teams - invest in team members in a semi-formal structured environment, sharing what they've just learned with their coworkers. Overcoming the end-user learning curve moving from Excel to Power BI. Why Partners in Health chose to invest in the Microsoft Power Platform. Unexpected benefits of the Finance team building their own app. The benefit of developing transferable skills during a relatively simple app build. Finding the balance between a small technical team and users who want to build their own apps. Resources Brendan Eger on LinkedIn Partners In Health (pih.org) Dashboard in a Day (microsoft.com) App in a Day Event Web page (microsoftevents.com) Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Power Apps for 100,000 users with Mandar Zope, Slalom Consulting 34:41

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#87. Join me with Mandar Zope, a principal consultant at Slalom Consulting from Seattle. Mandar has been busy building business applications that are being used by a hundred thousand users at a global oil and gas company. Our discussion covers: The user adoption approach used to train and communicate with thousands or tens of thousands of users at a time, using Power Apps. Building data import automation using Power Automate. Approaches to taking a big enterprise portfolio of applications and breaking them up. Working with design engineers from the very beginning of the project, so that they can create customer journeys. Increased frequency of builds so that QA can be performed in more frequent chunks. How to handle platform evolution during the lifecycle of the application development. Resources Mandar Zope on Linkedin Mandar Zope #ProCodeNoCodeUnite (@mzope) on Twitter Seattle Power Platform User Group (Seattle, WA) | Meetup Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Agile Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations with Paul Heisterkamp 35:57

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#86. Join me with Paul Heisterkamp, a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect and developer at GWS in Germany. Paul shares with us his story of a multi-country Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations project for an international automotive parts supplier. Our discussion covers: Phasing long-term international enterprise projects. Adopting an agile approach to ERP. Dealing with the challenges of remote working. How they bet on the first version of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations running in the cloud a couple of years ago, as well as upgrading every six months. Application life cycle management with Lifecycle Services and Azure DevOps and working with the Microsoft FastTrack team successfully. Resources Paul Heisterkamp on LinkedIn Paul Heisterkamp on twitter GWS on LinkedIn Microsoft FastTrack Success By Design Implementation Guide Success By Design learning resources | Microsoft Docs FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect program Paul Heisterkamp Wordpress blog Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Are Microsoft Certifications Causing Projects to Fail? with Julie Yack and Julian Sharp 40:48

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#85. Join me with Julie Yack and Julian Sharp as we discuss my question, "Are Microsoft certifications causing projects to fail?" Julie Yack is a founder and the chief operations officer at Colorado Technology Consultants. She's an author, a trainer, a solution architect, and an MVP. Julian Sharp is the founder of Ready 365. He recently received an MVP award and is best known as a prolific Microsoft trainer. Over the past 10 or 15 or 20 years, he's trained thousands of people in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform technologies. The training and certification opportunities for everyone building Microsoft business applications have never been better. Our discussion covers: Whether the time spent on attaining and maintaining Microsoft business applications certifications, is crowding out the amount of time that people have for other types of learning needed to have successful projects. Where to start to embark on a certification refresh of your own resume. An overview of what is involved in making a certification from Microsoft's perspective. Why you need more than just Microsoft certifications to build amazing business applications. Resources Julie Yack on LinkedIn Julian Sharp on LinkedIn Microsoft Learn Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master PMI Project Management Professional Prosci Change Practitioner LinkedIn Learning Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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3 Big Lessons in Change Management with Britt Damkjaer 40:53

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#84. Join me with Britt Damkjaer, customer excellence and change management coach and the founder of bd relations in Copenhagen, Denmark as we discuss change management and business applications and other insights from her experience as a product owner and coach. I like how Britt is expanding our minds to thinking not just about our users, but also our end customers and the impact that our business applications are going to have on the customer experience, too. Our discussion covers: The significance of the role of the Product Owner in Business Development projects. Why Britt wrote her book, "It's Our Customer". Change management approach for Agile projects compared to organizations that are taking a waterfall approach to projects. The three biggest lessons that Britt conveys in the book from her 20 years of experience. The biggest mistakes that Britt has seen from a change management perspective. Resources Britt Damkjaer on LinkedIn IT'S OUR CUSTOMER book page on Britt's website with a preview of the book Register for Achieve Successful CRM webinar Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Bonus: Extended Interview with Marc Schweigert 10:13

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#83. Bonus extended interview with Marc Schweigert, principal program manager on the Power Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft as we talk about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches suited to novices and citizen developers through to professional developers. In this bonus extended interview, I ask Marc 10 rapid-fire "would you rather" questions: Drink Australian wine or Australian beer? Use Scrum or SureStep? Include comments in your code or write unambiguous code? Call it a table or an entity? Ship a managed or unmanaged solution into production? Offer users a Choices field or a Lookup? Automate something in a flow or a LogicApp? Have one instance per dev or a shared development instance? Use Azure DevOps or GitHub? Include a canvas app or a PCF control in a model-driven app? Resources Marc Schweigert on LinkedIn devkeydet (@devkeydet) on Twitter ALM Patterns and Practices ALM Toolkit for Makers ALM Toolkit for Advanced Makers Scottish Summit: From Zero to ALM in Demos PowerCAT Live channel on YouTube Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Power Apps ALM Accelerator for Advanced Makers with Marc Schweigert, Microsoft 56:26

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#82. Join me with Marc Schweigert, a programme manager on the Power Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft as we talk about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches suited to novices and citizen developers through to professional developers. A healthy application lifecycle process is critical if you're going to build amazing, agile, Dynamics 365 and Power Apps platform applications. I think it's great that Microsoft is finally providing more prescriptive advice for how to achieve healthy ALM and providing tools to help us get there. Make sure you stick around until the end of this episode to find out how you can get access to the bonus episode with Neil Benson and Marc Schweigert's extended interview. Our discussion covers: How the Microsoft PoweCAT group fits in and helps customers. What is Microsoft's definition of application lifecycle management? The CoE Starter Kit which helps people get from the beginning clean slate to a mature state with some level of build source control, build deployment and automation The journey to get to a place to open-source the CoE starter kit. The new Power Apps ALM Accelerator for Advanced Makers. Whether ALM applies to practitioners executing a waterfall style project as much as it does an agile style. Training plans for the new ALM patterns and practices. If you'd like to hear that bonus extended interview, please make sure you subscribe to the Amazing Apps show in your podcast player and set it to download new episodes automatically. Resources Marc Schweigert on LinkedIn devkeydet (@devkeydet) on Twitter ALM Patterns and Practices ALM Toolkit for Makers ALM Accelerator for Advanced Makers Scottish Summit: From Zero to ALM in Demos PowerCAT Live channel on YouTube Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Pitching Scrum to Microsoft Customers 19:10

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#81. Gustaf Westerlund CIO and founder at CRM-Konsulterna asks, "How can we get customers to really understand that an agile approach is best for them?" Agile is built on trust. Trust that the developing partner will do their best. But if the customer has been burned many times before, this can be hard to gain. And half-hearted trust becomes half-hearted agile." I dive into the detail and expand on my top three tips: Know Scrum - get your business development team members trained as well as your delivery team because they’re the people your customers will meet first. Know Your Customer - if you can, find out their preconceptions and adjust your message either based on their predisposition or their role Know the Benefits - some of the benefits are better software, earlier value, higher ROI and shorter payback, higher user satisfaction, greater transparency, more efficient capital allocation, lower risk, more customer control over scope, more collaborative way of working and greater professional rewards. Cherry-pick whichever of those benefits you think will resonate with whoever you’re talking to. Resources: Gustaf Westerlund on LinkedIn CRM-Konsulterna on LinkedIn Scrum.org Customery Academy Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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3 User Story Traps to Avoid with Power Platform and Dynamics 365 25:19

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#80. Richard asks about working with user stories in a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform agile project. I'll spend this episode talking about user stories on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform projects and I’ll share three traps to avoid when working with user stories when building Power Platform and Dynamics 365 apps using Scrum. The first trap is the level of detail. The second trap is splitting and combining stories. The third trap is managing changes to the backlog of users stories. Resources User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Bonus: Extended Interview with CJ Brooks, MISSION CRM 16:17

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#79. Bonus extended interview with CJ Brooks, a Fundraising and Engagement Architect at Mission CRM as we talk about how Mission CRM closed the doors on their consulting practice to focus on building the Mission CRM fundraising and engagement application for nonprofit organizations. In this bonus episode, CJ and I try to solve the Elon Musk problem in data verse. Resources CJ Brooks on LinkedIn MISSION CRM on LinkedIn MISSION website Demo: Dynamics 365 Fundraising & Engagement Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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The Making of MISSION CRM with CJ Brooks 38:40

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#78. Join me with CJ Brooks, a Fundraising and Engagement Architect at Mission CRM as we talk about how Mission CRM closed the doors on their consulting practice to focus on building the Mission CRM fundraising and engagement application for nonprofit organizations. Make sure you stick around until the end of this episode to find out how you can get access to the bonus episode with Neil Benson and CJ Brooks extended interview. Our discussion covers: How Mission CRM took a step back and pivoted to create an application. How Mission CRM adapted to Microsoft's not for profit accelerator soon after the release of their not for profit products. Striking the balance between agile software development and well structure dev ops. If you'd like to hear that bonus extended interview, please make sure you subscribe to the Amazing Apps show in your podcast player and set it to download new episodes automatically. Resources CJ Brooks on LinkedIn MISSION CRM on LinkedIn MISSION website Demo: Dynamics 365 Fundraising & Engagement Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Bonus: Extended Interview with Bert Wijns, Power Accelerate 16:31

4 years之前16:31

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#77. Bonus extended interview with Bert Wijns, a Global Solution Strategy Architect a Microsoft and co-founder of Power Accelerate as we talk about the tool he created which allows you to take a screenshot of a legacy application or database schema and have a Power App built in a few minutes with the legacy data migrated. Sound crazy? Listen on to hear more about Bert Wijns' Power Accelerate. Resources Bert Wijns on LinkedIn Power Accelerate on LinkedIn Power Accelerate website Power Apps Screenshot Modernization Power Accelerate Intro Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Transcript: AmazingApps26Bonus.wav transcribed by Sonix | Automatically convert audio and video to text | Sonix Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Automagically Building Power Apps with Bert Wijns, Power Accelerate 39:42

4 years之前39:42

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#76. Join me with Bert Wijns, a Global Solution Strategy Architect a Microsoft and co-founder of Power Accelerate as we talk about the tool he created which allows you to take a screenshot of a legacy application or database schema and have a Power App built in a few minutes with the legacy data migrated. Sound crazy? Listen on to hear more about Bert Wijns' Power Accelerate. Make sure you stick around until the end of this episode to find out how you can get access to the bonus episode with Neil Benson and Bert Wijns' extended interview. Our discussion covers: Being a Microsoft employee at the same time as starting another company. Alternative channels to screenshots that can be used as a starting point for the time-saving Power Accelerate process. Current size limitations of Power Accelerate and how they can be overcome. The roadmap from private preview to GA and beyond for Power Accelerate. If you'd like to hear that bonus extended interview, please make sure you subscribe to the Amazing Apps show in your podcast player and set it to download new episodes automatically. Resources Bert Wijns on LinkedIn Power Accelerate on LinkedIn Power Accelerate website Power Apps Screenshot Modernization Power Accelerate Intro Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Building Power Platform Applications for a Church with Haniel Croitoru, Protiviti 31:11

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#75. Join me with Haniel Croitoru, Associate Director of Protiviti, a Technology Consulting solutions provider in Toronto, Canada. Haniel shares a story about one of his power platform projects for a not-for-profit client and shares the lessons learned about multi-language deployments, implementation approach, executive sponsorship, and change in user adoption. Our discussion covers: The importance of strong project sponsorship in projects that drive a lot of organisational change. Refining knowledge gained on a project, writing about it, presenting it, clarifying it, and making it available for others via AppSource. Using common language analogies to explain SharePoint concepts and bring them to life. Easing the challenges of change management and adoption by supporting early adopters with the aim of smoother sailing as they become champions in the user community. Staggering rollouts instead of releasing them all at once to ease the stress for users who do not deal well with change. It was great to hear how he's designed a solution for multi-language, Power Apps user interfaces, his agile approach to building business applications, and how he addresses change management and user adoption in his projects. Resources Haniel Croitoru on LinkedIn Haniel Croitoru on Twitter Protiviti on LinkedIn The United Church of Canada My online Scrum for Microsoft Business Applications training course AppSource Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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#NoEstimates Business Applications with Vasco Duarte 44:42

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#74. Join me with Vasco Duarte who runs Oikosofy a coaching company in Finland and is also behind the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast. Vasco is the author of a fascinating book, #NoEstimates. Vasco and I chat about the challenges of estimating complex business application software, particularly in the CRM and ERP domains, and how the No Estimates movement and the method covered in his book can help business applications teams construct collaborative contracts with their customers and never deliver late again. At the end of this podcast episode, I give details on how you can win one of 14 copies of Vasco's book, the No Estimates book. Our discussion covers The #noestimates movement and how the approach addresses the frustration of unreliable and late delivery on software projects. Alternatives to traditional estimation methodologies. Using the Extreme Contracts approach to create a win-win situation between vendors and customers. Educating Product Owners who may have never been involved in software development. Blink estimates, or rethinking what is delivered in a sprint to deliver customer value as quickly as possible. The "Clinton process" Spike concept centred on solving a problem for the customer with the aim of delivering a solution in a very short time frame. Resources Vasco Duarte on LinkedIn No Estimates book Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Extreme Contracts - Jacopo Romei Agile Estimating and Planning training Mike Cohn Maarten Dalmijn on Medium.com Scrum Master Toolbox Product Owner e-course Neil Killick Blink Estimation The Clinton Process - Clinton Keith on “No estimates and set-based design” – Blog post Raphael Branger on LinkedIn Spike concept from extreme programming Kent Beck on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Documenting Power Apps with Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp 39:14

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#73. Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp, co-hosts of the XrmToolCast join Neil Benson to answer the questions about how to document complex systems when asked to "devise a roadmap for migrating a Dynamics CRM 2013 and a CRM 2016 environment into a single Dynamics 365 online environment ." A documentation tools masterclass from two experts in the field who discuss what tools to use for on-premise implementations when Snapshot! for Dynamics 365 can’t be used. Resources Daryl LaBar on LinkedIn Jonas Rapp on LinkedIn XrmToolCast Podcast Snapshot! for Dynamics 365 XrmToolBox Plugin Registration Tool XrmToolBox Web Resource Tool XrmToolBox Attribute Usage Inspector XrmToolBox Metadata Document Generator Use Visual Studio Code to search for 'Xrm.' XrmToolBox Power Apps Solution Checker for XrmToolBox Entity relationship diagram generation tool in Visio 2016 SDK XrmToolBox Entity Relationship Diagram Generator UML Diagram Generator for XrmToolBox Visio Document Generator Diagrams.net Server Trigger Explorer from CDS.Tools Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Should You Design Upfront When Scaling Development? 12:47

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#72. Michael Nunes asks, "When multiple systems are being delivered by different parties, I find that we have to design the details upfront, then use agile for the delivery of the Dynamics 365 systems. Is this your experience too?" Michael's question has two layers that we address in this episode: upfront design and team composition. Upfront design is based on three assumptions: We can know all the requirements upfront. We can design all the components upfront. There won't be any changes. We challenge those assumptions and investigate the drawbacks. Then describe an alternative approach: emergent design. Nexus is a scaled Scrum framework used when there are multiple Scrum teams working on a single application. We discover how to reconsider the composition of developers in our scrum teams when scaling beyond one team. Resources Michael Nunes on LinkedIn The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum (affiliate link) Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Can a Scrum Team Have Just One Developer? 6:55

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#71. Daniel Kerridge says, "I'm the only developer in my team so I just wondered if there's a special version of Scrum that works in that scenario." There are three sets of accountabilities in the scrum team: the product owner, the scrum master and developers. But how many developers do you need? In the previous version of the Scrum Guide, the recommended minimum number of developers to have a cross-functional team was three. But that minimum was removed from the 2020 Scrum Guide. Guy's & St. Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust ran a successful project to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 using a tiny scrum team. Find out how in this episode. Plus three conditions to meet if you have a tiny scrum team. Resources Daniel Kerridge on LinkedIn Ben Knipp on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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How Can We Bridge the Gap Between Business and IT? 8:15

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#70. Dan Madden , a program manager at Acensus, asks, "What’s the best way to help bridge that gap between [IT and] the business and ultimately the end-users?" In this episode, you'll learn about the five characteristics of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform projects that have a close relationship between business and IT so that there's no gap in your business applications initiatives. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Should Business Apps Teams Follow the Agile Manifesto? 9:35

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#69. In this episode, Andreas Dutz, Business Development Manager at HSO from Bavaria, Germany, asks, "Have you defined what agile means? Are your teams trained in the Agile Manifesto and are your teams applying it today?" The Manifesto for Agile Software development has some flaws you should be aware of. Instead of memorising it and applying it word for word, your teams should consider it and devise your own Manifesto for No-Code/Low-Code Application Development . Resources Andreas Dutz on LinkedIn Manifesto for Agile Software Development Amazing Applications on LinkedIn Leave a question for Amazing Applications Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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6 Roles Every Enterprise Business Applications Project Should Have 15:24

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#68. What does the structure of a scales business application project look like? What groups and roles do you need when you've got 50 or more team members working together for a year or more to build a large, complex application? In this episode, you'll learn about a model project structure so that you can compare it to yours or use it as a baseline when establishing your own enterprise project team. Resources 6 Roles Every Enterprise Business Applications Project Should Have poster Large-scale Scrum (affiliate link) Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum (affiliate link) Scaling Done Right (affiliate link) Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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How to Manage Scope Creep in an Agile Project? 21:20

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#67. In this Q&A episode, Stephen Price , Digital Solution Architect at ITK Consulting in Canada, asks, "How should we manage scope creep within a sprint in an agile project?" The scope of our product is defined by the product backlog, and the scope of our project is a subset of the product backlog. Both are managed by the product owner: the single person responsible and accountable for the product backlog. In my Dynamics 365 and Power Apps projects, the product owner also manages the project scope. Once you’ve set the sprint goal and agreed on the sprint backlog, what happens if someone needs to or wants to change the sprint backlog? Here are five occasions when my teams are asked to change to the sprint backlog: A critical new item is added to the product backlog. We learn something new about one of the items in our sprint backlog. An item in the current sprint fails an acceptance test. We’ve got less (or more) capacity than we expected at the beginning of the sprint. The product owner has changed her priorities. Congratulations to Gavin Embley , another recent Customery Academy student who recently achieved his Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master I certification. You can join Gavin and get started with my Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free mini-course where you'll learn the basics and benefits of taking an agile approach to building amazing, agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Data Migration in Agile Dynamics 365 Projects 10:03

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#66. Matt Venamore , scrum master at RACQ, asks about how to handle data migration on agile Dynamics 365 projects. My recommended approach is for the data migration team to conduct a proof-of-concept or prototyping exercise (just like many business apps teams do) to uncover challenges, test their assumptions and learn as much as possible about the data. Then work closely with the business applications team to iteratively and incrementally prepare the data and the migration procedures. Resources Snapshot! for Dynamics CRM/365 XrmToolBox: ERD Visio Builder Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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What Does the Scrum Guide 2020 Mean For Us? 16:33

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#65. Neil discusses the five most important changes in Scrum Guide 2020 for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 teams: It's less strict and less about software One team (except when there're multiple teams) Commitments clarified - the Product Goal No more roles Increments Customery Academy's course, Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps , will be updated in time for the new Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master certification assessment on 9 January. You can get $100 off if you join before 31 December using coupon code: 93G7PCAH . What do you think of the 2020 Scrum Guide? Which changes do you think will have the most impact on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 teams? Visit the Amazing Applications page on LinkedIn , and let me know in the comments for this episode. Resources 2020 Scrum Guide Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps with $100 discount coupon Amazing Applications page on LinkedIn Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager? 8:56

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#64. Carolle Bruce , Director of Information Technology at Avcorp Industries in Vancouver, asks, "What's the best argument for when senior management says, 'All this agile stuff is great but I don't see why you'd have a scrum master on your project when you could have an agile PM instead.'?" There are some important differences between the role and responsibilities of a project manager and a scrum master. But in Scrum, the role that is closest to the role of a project manager in a traditional project is not the scrum master but the product owner. Listen in to find out more about the similarities and differences. Resources Free mini-course: Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps Send your question to the Amazing Apps show: Send a Voicemail Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Should We Have a Standard Set of User Stories? 6:56

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#63. David Mochrie , a Power Platform consultant at Magnetism in Auckland, asks, "Should we have a standard set of user stories for Dynamics 365?" A long time ago, I tried to make it easy to write detailed user interface design specifications for Dynamics CRM using a wireframe prototyping tool called Axure RP Pro . I spent hundreds of hours building replicas of hundreds of Dynamics CRM screens that I planned to reuse over and over again in my specifications. But it didn't work out that way for me. And I don't think a standard set of user stories would work out for David, either. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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How Can We Adopt Scrum for Dynamics 365 Business Central? 7:17

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#62. Anand Kushalnagar , a project manager at Nexon Asia Pacific in Sydney, asks, "At the moment, we are using a hybrid implementation approach for our projects. How can you deliver Dynamics 365 business central projects in a fully agile methodology when there are so many dependencies between the various modules?" You can transition to Scrum gradually by introducing one or two agile practices to your team each sprint. ERP teams working on Dynamics 365 Business Central, Finance & Operations, Supply Chain or HR are slowly learning how to embrace Scrum even when there are interdependent modules, and we can't always release small increments into production. One way to do that is to deliver incremental features and co-ordinate closely and frequently with other team members or teams unblock interdependencies you might have in your product backlog. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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How Can We Be Sure We've Captured All Requirements? 6:16

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#61. Mark Llewellyn , Director of Technology at Osmosys Software Solutions in London asks, "How can you be sure you've captured all the requirements?" Traditional approaches, like Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, pretend that we can capture all the requirements upfront at the start of a project before we've started development. Upfront requirements analysis doesn't work. You can't capture requirements by writing them down, and you shouldn't try to uncover requirements before your users know something about Power Apps or Dynamics 365 and your developers know something about your users. Story mapping is an alternative method to help you capture more of your requirements. But you'll never capture them all. So don't try too hard, Mark. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Scrum Guide 2020 Launch Event 7:18

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#60. This year, Scrum is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To celebrate, the Scrum Guide 2020 is being published at a free global launch event at 10:00 EST on Wednesday 18 November 2020. Click here to register for the Scrum Guide 2020 launch event The launch event is being hosted on Zoom, and the largest Zoom plan has an attendee limit of 1,000. Register for the event today, and join the session early to make sure you can get in. I expect the Scrum Guide 2020 to be even leaner and simpler to help more practitioners in new industries and domains adopt Scrum. I’m excited about the changes and I’m planning to incorporate significant changes to my Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course as Scrum.org also updates the Professional Scrum Master certification syllabus. Student shout out Congratulations to Michael Handley , IT Project Manager at Health Carousel in Ohio, who joined my Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps audio course and recently achieved his Professional Scrum Master certification. If you’re interested in learning the Scrum framework and how to apply it to Power Apps and Dynamics 365 projects at a much lower cost then the audio course might be an option. It’s US$29 and contains audio versions of all the videos, the quizzes and the practice exam. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Certification for Dynamics 365 Product Owners 9:54

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#59. Neal Carty , a Business Solutions Consultant at Traction On Demand in Toronto asks: How does the Professional Scrum Product Owner certification compare to the Professional Scrum Master certification, and is it relevant for Dynamics 365? What's the best way to acquire the knowledge required for PSPO certification? How can we accelerate our learning and avoid high-fees for generic, in-person PSPO courses? Can we mix certifications between Scrum.org and Scrum Alliance? Resources mentioned in this episode Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master I training and certification Scrum.org Professional Product Owner I training and certification Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner training and certification Professional Scrum Product Owner by Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham (affiliate) Product Mastery: From Good to Great Product Owner by Geoff Watts (affiliate) Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Have You Ever Fired a Client? 14:00

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#58. I had to fire a client this week. I felt terrible that I wasn't able to help, yet relieved that I stuck to my approach and my principles. Listen in to find out what happened. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Dynamics 365 for Talent with Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza 21:41

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#57. Join me with Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza , a Dynamics 365 HR consultant at FourVision and a rising star in our Power Platform community. Ana shares the story behind the amazing Dynamics 365 for Talent application her team deployed at Centria, in Lima, Peru. Ana came from an HR administrator role and today is an HR application functional consultant at FourVision. Ana's project team created a Dynamics 365 for Talent companion app using Power Apps to enhance the recruiting process at Centria. HR departments and their applications are often treated as a cost to the organisation. This is slowly changing but sometimes HR professionals could do more to improve how they are perceived. COVID-19 has presented HR professionals with an opportunity to lead their company's culture. It took a small team of just three people to build the Power App. Part-way through the project, the client asked for robotic process automation (RPA) to help improve the efficiency of their HR processes. At the end of the project, Microsoft announced that Dynamics 365 for Talent was being deprecated. The client wasn't happy, of course, but they are able to use Talent Attract and Onboard until 2022. The upside of Microsoft's changing product strategies is that Microsoft partners have become more flexible in their thinking and approaches. Configuring Dynamics 365 for Talent was relatively easy. The hardest part of the project was integrating the Power App with SAP, which involved a dependency on another team. The project's success was assisted by Ana's HR career background which helped her empathise with her stakeholders. There was very open and transparent communication between the project team and its stakeholders that built trust. A third factor that contributed to the app's success was the confidence and leadership of the HR general manager (who had been Ana's former co-worker). Connect with Ana LinkedIn: Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza Blog: AnaInesUrrutia.com Twitter: @AnaInesUrrutia Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Dynamics Con 2020 with Molly Fuschel 31:18

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#56. The biggest online community event of the year, Dynamics Con 2020, is just around the corner: Wednesday 9 to Thursday 10 September. I'm joined in this special episode by a special guest to discuss this special event -- the event's director, Molly Fuschel . You can register for free today at DynamicsCon.com . I'm presenting "Tell Me a Story", which will be packed with proven practices for managing your Dynamics 365 or Power Apps product backlog. My session is 9am US Central Time, Wednesday 9 September . I'll be available during and after my session to answer your questions and hang out with Amazing App builders. I hope to see you there. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Estimating How Much and How Long 22:51

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#55. In this second episode on estimating Microsoft Business Applications we answer your financial sponsor's two favourite questions: How long is it going to take? How much is it going to cost? If you're a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform project manager, business analyst, solution architect, pre-sales consultant, developer, or in business development, you'll find out how to answer those key questions in this in-depth episode. For full show notes and transcript, visit https://customery.com/004 Check out part 1, Estimating Power Platform and Dynamics 365 applications , to discover more about forecasting how long it's going to take and how much it's going to cost. To join my free Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps mini-course, visit https://customery.com/foundations . Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Lives Lived Well with Dani Kahil 41:51

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#54. I'm joined by Dani Kahil , Microsoft Business Applications practice lead at Empired, who shares the story behind one of his client projects, Lives Lived Well. How the Lives Lived Well CRM project started with a review of the high-level requirements Adopting Scrum gradually during the course of the project The benefit of having a scrum master (or a project manager) who is familiar with Scrum Dani's advice for Microsoft customers who are new to the product owner role Using a blend of partner and customer resources Challenges they had switching from Voice of the Customer to FormsPro Going live as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia Pitching an agile approach to prospective clients Using Azure DevOps for product backlog management and managing test cases Dani's requirements mastering and solution envisioning peer group The Amazing App show's first review on Podchaser Show Contacts Dani Kahil on LinkedIn Empired Lives Lived Well Customery Academy students: Luis Guzman and Matt Baum Show Resources Dani Kahil's blog Dani Kahil's Mastering Solution Envisioning peer group Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps Amazing Applications show on Podchaser Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Estimating Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Applications 28:43

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#53. If you're building Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate or Power Virtual Agent applications, when and how should you be estimating your requirements, releases and applications? Check out part 2, Estimating how long and how much , to discover more about forecasting how long it's going to take and how much it's going to cost. For full show notes and transcription, visit: https://customery.com/002 We need to estimate our requirements for two reasons: time and money We don't always need to estimate our applications, but exceptions are rare Accuracy and precision are different things Estimation is not a one-time activity and should be repeated Are we estimating effort or complexity or something else? Ideal time, story points and t-shirt sizes My recommended estimation units Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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15 Industry Leaders Share Their Business Apps Career Advice 1:16:01

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#52. For this special episode, I asked 15 industry leaders how they were coping with the coronavirus restrictions and what advice they'd give to their younger selves if their career was affected by the impacts of an economic recession. James Phillips Sarah Critchley Kathrine Hogseth Neil Parkhurst Mohamed Mostafa Elaiza Benitez Dian Taylor Leon Tribe Frieda Maher Dalia Raphael Andrew Bibby Lisa Crosbie Cedrick Holmes David Kohar Andrew Welch Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Amazing Apps Show Trailer 4:01

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#51. Welcome to the new Amazing Apps show. This episode is a bonus episode for previous subscribers of the Scrum Dynamics podcast explaining the reasons behind the name change and gives you a sneak preview of the new theme music. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Dynamics 365 for Recruitment Industry with Chris Kendrick, Mercury xRM 36:53

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#50. Chris Kendrick is the founder and CEO of Mercury xRM , who develop recruitment software on Dynamics 365 Sales. We discuss parsing resumes (and fine-tuning your own resume), as well as entity model designs, ISV product development, implementation approaches, remote training and user adoption incentives. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Agile Architects with Gus Gonzalez and Joel Lindstrom 1:09:01

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#49. I'm joined by Gus Gonzalez and Joel Lindstrom to discuss the role of solution architects in agile teams implementing Microsoft Business Applications. We chill out on the mics and discuss: Why weren't Joel and Guz at MVP this year? Intrinsic and extrinsic solution architects What is the role of a solution architect today? Resource and delivery co-ordination Go-to person and a face for the developers Can a solution design document be dangerous Is the blueprint the new solution design document? Decision logs and the reasons why it's designed that way Gus Gonzalez Gus Gonzalez on LinkedIn Gus Gonzalez on Twitter Eleva8 Solutions website CRM MVP Podcast Joel Lindstrom Joel Lindstrom on LinkedIn Hitachi Solutions America on LinkedIn CRM.Audio Podcast Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Prototyping Power Apps with Clément Olivier 26:43

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#48. My guest is Clément Olivier from Javista in Nantes, France. Clément was recently awarded a Power Platform FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect designation. He was one of 8 first-time Power Apps architects and 5 Power BI architects to be recognised, in addition to a new group of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Customer Engagement architects . It's a recognition from the Microsoft FastTrack team within the Business Apps product engineering group of a solution architect who consistently exhibits deep architecture expertise and creates high-quality solutions during customer engagements. Congratulations to all of you. I invited Clément to share with some of the factors behind one of his recent successful projects in which his team built two Power Apps for a kitchen design factory. Listen in as we discover how they used a concierge app to welcome guests and capture their sentiment regarding kitchen samples using Azure Cognitive Services. Clément’s team used a rapid prototyping technique to get early feedback from users on the features they needed in their kitchen design Power App. One of his recommendations is to know the capabilities of the different components available — canvas and model Power Apps, CDS, Azure services so you can make the most appropriate design choices. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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When to Use Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 11:54

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#47. Is Scrum the best approach to use for every Microsoft Business Application? No! Join me, as we explore the Stacey and Cynefin models that help us make judgements about which types of applications are suited to a Scrum approach and which aren't. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Fixing Your Scrum with Ryan Ripley 53:02

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#46. Ryan Ripley joins me in Amazing Apps to discuss his new book, Fixing Your Scrum . Ryan is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org. We also discuss: The suitability of Scrum for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform projects. Is the Scrum framework appropriate for enterprise Dynamics 365 ERP projects and smaller Power Apps projects? Ryan’s advice for line-of-business managers who are taking on the product owner role for the first time in their Microsoft Business Applications project. Whether it’s a good idea for scrum masters to take product owner training. The range of courses and certifications available from Scrum.org and who should consider taking the Professional Scrum Foundations course. How program, project and release planning practices can be added to the Scrum framework. What’s in the next version of the Scrum Guide (if Ryan and I were invited to edit it). And Ryan’s favourite topic, the sprint goal. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Live Inside My Daily Scrum 26:21

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#45. This is a special, bonus episode of Amazing Applications with a live recording from inside my current Scrum teams' daily scrum. Take a sneak peek as my developers share their progress with each other and adjust the sprint backlog as they learn more about what they've accomplished. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Agile is Dead 11:08

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#44. Someone sends me an "Agile is Dead" article at least once a year. Are these articles with their clickbait headlines just opinion pieces with no data to back up the authors' claims or are they well-researched and thought-provoking journalism? Here's one, Agile software development is dead. Deal with it . It was written by Jason Bloomberg and published in SiliconANGLE. I have some fun with the author's claims that agile software is dead because it's 19, is impossible to scale, and promotes exclusion. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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CRM Success at Orbis Investments with EY Kalman 47:30

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#43. EY Kalman , also known as the CRM Ninja, joins me in this episode of Amazing Apps to reveal the critical factors behind the success of his Dynamics CRM project at Orbis Investments. Listen in as he reveals his critical success factors on this project. Resources EY Kalman on LinkedIn TheCRMNinja on Twitter TheCRM.Ninja website TheCRMNinja on YouTube Orbis Investments website Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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All Your Scrum Team Questions Answered 21:34

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#42. The topic for this episode is scrum teams. The composition and the characteristics of your scrum team remain fundamental to you having any success with an agile approach when you're implementing business applications. I recently refreshed the content of the scrum team section in my Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course . In this refresh, I added a new video which answers frequently asked questions about scrum teams. I thought it would be a good idea to share some of those FAQs with the Scrum Dynamics audience to give you a sneak peek into the kind of topics you'll find in the course. Student shout-out to Jackie Walker from Capgemini and Veronica Kamph from CRM-Konsulterna. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Apps website 🟦 Customery on LinkedIn 🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES 🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪 -Neil…

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Managing Requirements in Azure DevOps with Tricia Sinclair 44:47

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