#46. Ryan Ripley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanripley/) joins me in Amazing Apps to discuss his new book, Fixing Your Scrum (https://amzn.to/33NbI7P) . 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…
#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…
#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…
A special g'day message to the new Belfast Power Platform User group in my homeland. I wish I could be there to join your inaugural meetup, but I can't understand your strange accents any more, so I sent this message instead.
#43. EY Kalman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecrmninja/) , 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…
#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…
#41. Lots of Microsoft Business Applications teams use Azure DevOps Repos and Pipelines for managing their source code and automating their code integration, build and deployment processes. But what about using Azure DevOps Boards to plan, track and collaborate on your work in a Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate…
My Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course kicks off by explaining the theory that underpins Scrum, and its pillars core values. Understanding and embracing these principles is key difference between 'doing agile' and 'being agile'.
#40. There are two ways of handling bugs in Scrum: 1. Bug Estimators treat bugs like any other product backlog item. They write a card, estimate it, add it to the product backlog, prioritise it and work on it during a future sprint. 2. Bug Zappers try and avoid writing…
When we're implementing Microsoft Business Applications using Scrum, how should we handle bugs? When should we estimate them? When should we fix them? In this video, I describe the two common practices for dealing with defects: Bug Estimators and Bug Zappers. Find out which practice I recommend for your biz…
#39. Imagine you're a member of a development team implementing Microsoft Business Applications using the Scrum framework. What do you do when you've completed the item you're working on? Inspired by my favourite TV show of all time, The West Wing, here's the Definition of Next that my team uses…
A Definition of Next for your Scrum team implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365, PowerApps, PowerBI or Flow can guide them what to work on next when they've completed working on a product backlog item. Visit https://customery.com/39 to download my Definition of Next checklist and use it to inspire your own. Thanks…
My new free mini-course, Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps, is for team members involved in Dynamics 365, PowerApps, PowerBI or Flow projects wondering if an agile approach will benefit their project. You can join at https://customery.com/foundations
#38. If you’re brand new to agile software development and are wondering how an agile approach can be applied to your Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power BI or Power Automate project, I’ve launched a new free mini-course: Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps (https://customery.com/foundations) . The course is ideal if…
To help you get the most out of the course, I'll give you a quick tour of the course components and explain the two different ways that successful students usually complete the course. Your success starts here.
#37. Steve Books is the Chief Technology Officer of Bam Boom Cloud (previously known as Cooper Parry IT Solutions), 2020 winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Dynamics 365 Business Central. Bam Boom Cloud is a mid-market accounting firm based in the UK. They've had a lot…
#36. David Conti surprised me with the size of Velrada's project that was a finalist in the 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Dynamics 365 Field Service awards. I had always assumed that PotY awards were a recognition of complex, enterprise projects successfully delivered by Microsoft's finest. Listen in…
#35. Mohamed Mostafa (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-i-mostafa/) is the Solutions Director at TechLabs London (http://techlabs.london/) , best known for iPropertyCloud (http://iproperty.cloud/) , a suite of business applications for property companies. In this episode, Mohamed joins me to discuss the successful implementation of iPropertyCloud at Eagle Housing*. Eagle Housing is a rapidly-growing social housing…
#34. I chat with Andrew Bibby (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbibby/) about his successful Dynamics 365 project at Devon Financial Services*. Andrew is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP with over 12 years’ experience implementing Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement for several Microsoft partners and through his own company as an independent project…
#33. I'm joined by Johan Adenmark (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johan-adenmark-009b8b4) and Carolina Edvinsson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolina-edvinsson-126657105/) from NAB Solutions (http://nabsolutions.se) . NAB Solutions was a finalist in the 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards for the innovative work migrating 25 Dynamics NAV customers to Dynamics 365 Business Central within just a few months. Johan…
#32. Have you ever been asked: • "How much have you customised Dynamics 365?" • "Is our CRM system customised more or less than average?" • "Have we customised our system too much?" I've heard this question lots of times from IT leaders who want to know whether our Dynamics…
#31. Have you ever had a Dynamics 365 or Power Apps disaster? I share the tale of my failed Power Apps Portals project. It got cancelled by the client before we released it to production. What went wrong? Are there warning signs that you can spot to avoid a Dynamics…
#30. Emergent design is an advanced practice for Microsoft Business Application team experienced in Scrum. What is emergent design? When we practice emergent design, the development team designs the solution to meet the users’ needs just before we build the feature. The opposite of emergent design is up-front design. This…
Emergent design is an advanced agile software development engineering practice. Find out why I try and resist upfront design and love emergent design as an alternative. My team used emergent design to integrate Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement with Adobe Campaign -- find out how that went in this episode.