Planning Episodes

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 fi...

#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 projec...

#14. Neil provides a behind-the-scenes peek into ‘Orientation Week’ in his Dynamics 365 project kicking off this week, the Jupiter Programme. Orientation Week (O-Week) is designed to onboard two Scrum teams so that they can start delivering the Dynamics 365 workstream of an enterprise programme as quickly as possible. I talk through some of the planned O-Week activities and provide my assessment of some of the project’s risks and strengths. What are your experiences of launching new Dynamics 3...

#8. Dermot and Neil answer questions submitted by podcast listeners about: Estimating chores to reduce technical debt (Todd Mercer). Prioritizing items with dependencies and the principle of emergent design (Alan Rachid). Whether business analysts are part of the development team or not (Greta Sharples). Planning agile projects, especially in the sales cycle (Jeffry van de Vuurst). You can submit your questions by tweeting @customery or clicking on the Send Voicemail button anywhere on the ...