Episodes
Nov. 23, 2020
Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager?
#64. Carolle Bruce , Director of Information Technology at Avcorp Industries in Vancouver, asks, "What's the best argument for when senior management says, 'All this agile stuff is great but I don't see why you'd have a scrum...
Nov. 16, 2020
Should We Have a Standard Set of User Stories?
#63. David Mochrie , a Power Platform consultant at Magnetism in Auckland, asks, "Should we have a standard set of user stories for Dynamics 365?" A long time ago, I tried to make it easy to write detailed user interface desi...
Nov. 9, 2020
How Can We Adopt Scrum for Dynamics 365 Business Central?
#62. Anand Kushalnagar , a project manager at Nexon Asia Pacific in Sydney, asks, "At the moment, we are using a hybrid implementation approach for our projects. How can you deliver Dynamics 365 business central projects in a...
Nov. 4, 2020
How Can We Be Sure We've Captured All Requirements?
#61. Mark Llewellyn , Director of Technology at Osmosys Software Solutions in London asks, "How can you be sure you've captured all the requirements?" Traditional approaches, like Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, pretend that we...
Nov. 3, 2020
Scrum Guide 2020 Launch Event
#60. This year, Scrum is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To celebrate, the Scrum Guide 2020 is being published at a free global launch event at 10:00 EST on Wednesday 18 November 2020. Click here to register for the Scrum G...
Oct. 21, 2020
Certification for Dynamics 365 Product Owners
#59. Neal Carty , a Business Solutions Consultant at Traction On Demand in Toronto asks: How does the Professional Scrum Product Owner certification compare to the Professional Scrum Master certification, and is it relevant f...
Sept. 28, 2020
Have You Ever Fired a Client?
#58. I had to fire a client this week. I felt terrible that I wasn't able to help, yet relieved that I stuck to my approach and my principles. Listen in to find out what happened. Support the show CONNECT 🌏 Amazing Applicatio...
Sept. 14, 2020
Dynamics 365 for Talent with Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza
#57. Join me with Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza , a Dynamics 365 HR consultant at FourVision and a rising star in our Power Platform community. Ana shares the story behind the amazing Dynamics 365 for Talent application her team ...
Sept. 2, 2020
Dynamics Con 2020 with Molly Fuschel
#56. The biggest online community event of the year, Dynamics Con 2020, is just around the corner: Wednesday 9 to Thursday 10 September. I'm joined in this special episode by a special guest to discuss this special event -- t...
Aug. 24, 2020
Estimating How Much and How Long
#55. In this second episode on estimating Microsoft Business Applications we answer your financial sponsor's two favourite questions: How long is it going to take? How much is it going to cost? If you're a Dynamics 365 or Pow...
July 30, 2020
Lives Lived Well with Dani Kahil
#54. I'm joined by Dani Kahil , Microsoft Business Applications practice lead at Empired, who shares the story behind one of his client projects, Lives Lived Well. How the Lives Lived Well CRM project started with a review of...
July 14, 2020
Estimating Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Applications
#53. If you're building Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate or Power Virtual Agent applications, when and how should you be estimating your requirements, releases and applications? Check out part 2, E...
June 18, 2020
15 Industry Leaders Share Their Business Apps Career Advice
#52. For this special episode, I asked 15 industry leaders how they were coping with the coronavirus restrictions and what advice they'd give to their younger selves if their career was affected by the impacts of an economic ...
June 12, 2020
Amazing Apps Show Trailer
#51. Welcome to the new Amazing Apps show. This episode is a bonus episode for previous subscribers of the Scrum Dynamics podcast explaining the reasons behind the name change and gives you a sneak preview of the new theme mu...
June 1, 2020
Dynamics 365 for Recruitment Industry with Chris Kendrick, Mercury xRM
#50. Chris Kendrick is the founder and CEO of Mercury xRM , who develop recruitment software on Dynamics 365 Sales. We discuss parsing resumes (and fine-tuning your own resume), as well as entity model designs, ISV product de...
May 17, 2020
Agile Architects with Gus Gonzalez and Joel Lindstrom
#49. I'm joined by Gus Gonzalez and Joel Lindstrom to discuss the role of solution architects in agile teams implementing Microsoft Business Applications. We chill out on the mics and discuss: Why weren't Joel and Guz at MVP ...
May 4, 2020
Prototyping Power Apps with Clément Olivier
#48. My guest is Clément Olivier from Javista in Nantes, France. Clément was recently awarded a Power Platform FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect designation. He was one of 8 first-time Power Apps architects and 5 Power ...
April 17, 2020
When to Use Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps
#47. Is Scrum the best approach to use for every Microsoft Business Application? No! Join me, as we explore the Stacey and Cynefin models that help us make judgements about which types of applications are suited to a Scrum ap...
March 27, 2020
Fixing Your Scrum with Ryan Ripley
#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 Platfo...
March 23, 2020
Live Inside My Daily Scrum
#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 sprin...
Feb. 9, 2020
Agile is Dead
#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-...
Jan. 21, 2020
CRM Success at Orbis Investments with EY Kalman
#43. EY Kalman , 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 s...
Dec. 5, 2019
All Your Scrum Team Questions Answered
#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 ...
Nov. 7, 2019
Managing Requirements in Azure DevOps with Tricia Sinclair
#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 B...