#13. Neil covers all aspects of sprint planning for Dynamics 365 projects: • What is sprint planning and when does it take place? • Who attends sprint planning, and what to do if the product owner can’t make it? • How long is sprint planning? • What happens during sprint…
#12. Co-hosts, Neil and Dermot (yes, he's back!), discuss the sprint backlog. • What is the sprint backlog and how does it relate to the product backlog? Who is responsible for the sprint backlog and who can change it? • How the development team and the product owner negotiate the…
#11. Estimating product backlog items using planning poker is the topic for this episode. • The benefits of planning poker: gain a shared understanding of the work, bring diverse perspectives to the estimation process and estimate the work as we learn about the Dynamics 365 system. • Who plays planning…
#10. Neil compares the to-do list on his 100-year old house to the product backlog and goes on to describe: • Using epics to capture your project scope • Getting your product backlog started • Estimating backlog items using story points and not t-shirt sizes or ideal days • User…
#9. Neil is joined by Nick Doelman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdoelman/) (@ReadyXRM (https://twitter.com/readyxrm) ) who shares his experience learning Scrum and applying it to one of his recent Dynamics 365 projects. During the episode we cover: • Nick’s background in Dynamics 365 since CRM 1.0 beta • Some of his recent projects for…
#8. Dermot and Neil answer questions submitted by podcast listeners about: 1. Estimating chores to reduce technical debt (Todd Mercer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-mercer-a1a90929/) ). 2. Prioritizing items with dependencies and the principle of emergent design (Alan Rachid (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-rachid/) ). 3. Whether business analysts are part of the development team or not (Greta…
#7. Dermot and Neil discuss sprints and the daily scrum events in a Scrum project. • What's the ideal sprint length when you're using Scrum on a Dynamics 365 project? • When is it a good idea to use special sprints like Sprint 0 or a hardening sprint? • Can…
#6. Neil and Dermot discuss the development team in a Scrum project implementing Dynamics 365. Covered in this show: • The role of the development team in a Scrum project • What it means to be cross-functional and self-organizing • How many developers should be in your dev teamSupport the…
#5. This episode of Scrum Dynamics is brought to you live from the Dynamics 365 User Group Summit EMEA in Dublin, Ireland. In this session, Neil covers the basics of Scrum and best practices for each of Scrum’s roles, events, and deliverables from his Dynamics 365 and CRM projects over…
#4. Neil and Dermot discuss the role of the scrum master in a Dynamics 365 project. • A servant leader • Is the scrum master a project manager? • The role of the scrum master in sprint events • The three questions a scrum master asks during daily standup •…
#3. Neil introduces the role of the Product Owner in Dynamics 365 projects, including: • The primary responsibility of the Product Owner • Five ways the Product Owner manages the Product Backlog • Characteristics of great Product Owners • How a Product Owner spends their time • How to use…
#2. Neil and Dermot introduce the Scrum framework’s events, roles, deliverables and the Scrum theory. We cover: • Sprints, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective events • Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team roles • Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Product Increment deliverables • Empirical process…
#1. This is the premiere episode of the Scrum Dynamics podcast with Neil Benson and Dermot Ryan. If you have heard of Scrum or would like to use it in one of your Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects, you’re in the right spot. • What is Agile • What is Scrum…
Customer Crew member, Dan Barber, wanted to know what it was like in one of my sprints, so here's a day-by-day account of one of my recent sprints from sprint planning to the retrospective. https://amazingapps.show #Customery #AmazingApps #Sprint
In Amazing Apps 25 I'm changing things up by bringing the CRM.Audio podcast show to Youtube. And I'm focusing on just one question in each short-format show. In this episode, Ruan Kilian, a Dynamics 365 developer from Brisbane, Australia, asks, "Is it acceptable for a Dynamics 365 developer to prepare…
Todd Mercer recently asked about estimating technical debt items and whether these should count towards your Scrum team's velocity. You can read more about my approach: https://customery.com/blog/estimating #Customery #Scrum #Estimating
Imagine you're a Dynamics 365 consultant for a Microsoft partner. Three months into the project and your client wanted to provide a Scrum Master to your Scrum Team. What would you do? Let me know in the comments below.
Watch this video to get an overview of the benefits and content of my Introduction to Scrum for Microsoft Dynamics 365 course available at https://customery.academy/courses/scrum. #Customery #Scrum
This is an excerpt from my online training course, Introduction to Scrum for Dynamics 365. In this session, we look at the Product Increment. I describe how I use Dynamics 365 solutions as the Product Increment and how those solutions get tested and deployed into production. Enrol in the course:…
In this introduction to the Scrum agile framework for Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects, you'll learn the basics of Scrum events, roles, deliverables and theory. You'll also learn about some advanced agile practices you can apply to Dynamics 365 as well as when to use Scrum. Visit Customery Academy (https://customery.academy/courses/scrum) to…