Episodes
Documenting Your Agile Applications
July 29, 2022
#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…
Sprint goals for Microsoft Business Apps
July 21, 2022
#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…
Can You Build an App Without a Product Owner?
July 4, 2022
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…
Power Platform governance at a global scale with Rene Modery
June 17, 2022
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…
Defining requirements for complex Power Platform apps with Hamish Sheild
June 7, 2022
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…
Is Pre-Sales the Key to Power Platform Success? with Craig McGeough
May 29, 2022
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…
Power Pages and beyond with Ulrikke Akerbæk
May 19, 2022
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…
Answer These Five Questions Before You Build Anything with Chike Eduputa
May 11, 2022
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…
Six challenges of enterprise Dynamics 365 projects with Andrew Bibby and Dani Kahil
May 3, 2022
#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…
Application Eggs and Change Chickens with Angeliki Patsiavou
April 25, 2022
#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…
Personalise Your Customer Experience with Dynamics 365 with Guro Faller and Tricia Sinclair
April 11, 2022
#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…
From the Basement to the Cloud with Vivian Voss
April 4, 2022
#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…
Power Platform at the heart of Scotland’s new recycling scheme
March 28, 2022
#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 …
Start Here: How to Build Amazing Apps
March 15, 2022
#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 …
Testing Heaven: When should we test agile apps?
Feb. 10, 2022
#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…
Enterprise CRM with scaled Scrum at RACQ
Jan. 24, 2022
#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 p…
Behind the scenes of Amazing Applications
Jan. 4, 2022
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 pro…
Blended teams: customer and partner co-development
Dec. 23, 2021
#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 Orph…
Product Backlog Refinement: Who's Involved? (And Why!)
Dec. 7, 2021
#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 f…
How did you get scrum master training?
Nov. 29, 2021
#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…
Should You Assign Stories to Developers in Sprint Planning?
Nov. 19, 2021
#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 eve…
Microsoft FastTrack Success by Design with Seth Kircher
Oct. 18, 2021
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 incarnat…
"OMG, I love your new system. It's so easy to use!" with Bruce Sithole, 365 Mechanix
Sept. 29, 2021
#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 cov…
Business Transformation with Microsoft Business Apps with Lipi Sarkar
Sept. 16, 2021
#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 Dynami…