#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
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