Videos

#26. Dan Barber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbarber/) , from the Customery Crew, wanted to know what it would be like inside some of Neil’s scrum events. In Scrum Dynamics 26, Neil walks Dan through one of his recent ten-day sprints day-by-day from sprint planning on Monday morning to the sprint review two weeks…

#25. Neil is attempting a little experiment with a short, single question episode on the Amazing Applications podcast and on Youtube (https://youtube.com/customery) . Let’s see if he can answer your questions about Scrum for Dynamics 365 in ten minutes or less. The question in this episode is from Ruan Kilian,…

#24. Neil covers his top 10 antipatterns for Scrum roles in Dynamics 365 projects. An antipattern looks like a good idea to a situation you were facing but wasn’t the best option when you look back on it. Antipatterns are traps that we want to help others avoid. Here are…

#23. Neil and Dermot discuss when Microsoft Dynamics customers and partners should consider hiring a scrum master or agile coach for their project. What is an agile coach and how is this role different from a scrum master? A scrum master is a coach for the development team, the product…

#22. Some ideas turn out to be great ideas. Some ideas look like great ideas at the time but don't turn out so well in hindsight. Those are antipatterns. A pattern is a repeatable idea that solves a common problem, and should be adopted by others. An antipattern seems like…

#21. Mark Christie, who specialises in Dynamics 365 for Field Service at eBECS, uses Azure DevOps (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services). He’s from Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland. On 25 January he’ll be celebrating Burns Night where the haggis is introduced to the table with bagpipes. Dynamics…

#20. Seth Bacon and Neil catch up to discuss Scrum in the public sector. You can connect with Seth Bacon on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethbacon/) and @SethTBacon on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SethTBacon) . Check out Seth’s blog/vlog, The Bacon Bytes (http://thebaconbytes.com/) , for Dynamics 365 administrators. Seth’s having success implementing Dynamics 365 in city,…

#19. We’re on a mission to ensure every Microsoft customer and partner successfully implements Dynamics 365 using the Scrum framework. Do you have a question for the Scrum Dynamics podcast? Visit Customery.com (https://customery.com) and click on the Send Voicemail button to have your question feature on the show. Dermot and…

#18. Neil recently presented a live session on YouTube for the Dynamics 365 Community Corner (https://youtu.be/IALhKg0UErw) . He recorded this special version of his presentation for the podcast covering: • His first Dynamics CRM project using Scrum at Premier Medical Group • How and why he switched from Microsoft Dynamics…

#17. Dermot and Neil discuss what to measure in your Dynamics 365 projects when you're using Scrum. Tracking velocity is the basic measure of progress. Velocity is the total number of story points of 'done' stories in each sprint and should be averaged over several sprints (usually 3 to 5…

#16. Dermot and Neil talk about the last two events in a sprint: the sprint review and the sprint retrospective, including: • The format of sprint reviews and retrospectives • How these events are structured • Who should attend • How to tailor them for Dynamics 365 projectsSupport the show…

#15. Dermot’s picked up his Professional Scrum Master II and Professional Scrum Product Owner certifications. Good timing, Dermot, because our first question was from Dick Clark at eBECS (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-clark/) who has a client project who wants to get certified in Scrum. Neil has recorded the Scrum Guide (https://soundcloud.com/user-368099620-706946973/scrum-guide) as an…

#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…

#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…