Episodes
Jan. 4, 2023
Power Platform Governance Possibilities with Michael Roth
#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.…
Dec. 13, 2022
Using Figma to design business apps with Andrew Ly
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 …
Nov. 24, 2022
Deploying Dynamics 365 Field Service with Magnus Sørensen
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 …
Oct. 19, 2022
Sprint 1 is done!
#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…
Sept. 27, 2022
Estimating Requirements for Your Microsoft Business App
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 an…
Sept. 14, 2022
Using Story Points to Estimate Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Apps
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 le…
Aug. 25, 2022
Why Estimate Business Apps At All?
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'…
Aug. 15, 2022
Advanced Estimating Q&A
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 item…
Aug. 12, 2022
EY's PowerPost reduces lead times by 95%
#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 …
July 29, 2022
Documenting Your Agile Applications
#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 doc…
July 21, 2022
Sprint Goals for Microsoft Business Apps
#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 stak…
July 4, 2022
Can You Build an App Without a Product Owner?
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 thi…
June 17, 2022
Power Platform governance at a global scale with Rene Modery
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. Mana…
June 7, 2022
Defining requirements for complex Power Platform apps with Hamish Sheild
120. Hamish Sheild describes his five step Solution Mapping framework for using design thinking principles to define the requirements for complex Power Platform applications. Hamish has discovered Outlook's Board View and Ne…
May 29, 2022
Is Pre-Sales the Key to Power Platform Success? with Craig McGeough
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 Gr…
May 19, 2022
Power Pages and beyond with Ulrikke Akerbæk
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 develop…
May 12, 2022
Answer These Five Questions Before You Build Anything with Chike Eduputa
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 Cap…
May 3, 2022
Six challenges of enterprise Dynamics 365 projects with Andrew Bibby and Dani Kahil
#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 i…
April 25, 2022
Application Eggs and Change Chickens with Angeliki Patsiavou
#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 n…
April 11, 2022
Personalise Your Customer Experience with Dynamics 365 with Guro Faller and Tricia Sinclair
#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 g…
April 4, 2022
From the Basement to the Cloud with Vivian Voss
#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 Yaco…
March 28, 2022
Power Platform at the heart of Scotland’s new recycling scheme
#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 …
March 15, 2022
Start Here: How to Build Amazing Apps
#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 …
Feb. 10, 2022
Testing Heaven: When should we test agile apps?
#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 te…