Start Here: How to Build Amazing Apps

#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 an agile approach is suitable and when it's not
• The benefits that Microsoft customers and partners experience using an agile approach
• What agile actually means, the history of agile software development, and the principles and values in the agile manifesto
• The basics of the Scrum framework, and how to get certified in it
• Finally, some proven practices that I think that business apps teams need to learn to complement the Scrum framework to have wildly successful projects

To learn more about adopting an agile approach, take my free Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Applications (https://customery.academy/courses/foundations) mini-course.

If you're ready to learn Scrum, achieve your Scrum.org PSM1 certification and learn my proven practices for applying Scrum to Microsoft Business Apps projects, join my Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps (https://customery.academy/courses/scrum) online course.

If you're a Microsoft partner applying Scrum to your projects and you're ready to win more agile projects, apply for my Winning Agile Projects (https://customery.academy/courses/winning) masterclass.

Resources

• The Manifesto for Agile Software Development (https://agilemanifesto.org/)
• "The New, New Product Development Game", Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game)
• The Scrum Guide 2020 (https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html)
• Professional Scrum Master 1 certification at Scrum.org (https://www.scrum.org/professional-scrum-master-i-certification)
• Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free mini-course at Customery Academy (https://customery.academy/courses/foundations)
• Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy (https://customery.academy/courses/scrum)
• Winning Agile Projects masterclass at Customery Academy (https://customery.academy/courses/winning)
• Customery Academy on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/customeryacademy)
• Customery on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/customery)
• Customery on Twitter (https://twitter.com/customery)
• Agile Apps user group (https://aka.ms/agileappsug) Support the show (https://buymeacoffee.com/amazingapps)

CONNECT
🌏 Amazing Apps (https://amazingapps.show) website
🟦 Customery on LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/company/customery)
🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/neilbenson)

MY ONLINE COURSES
🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps (https://customery.com/foundations)
🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps (https://customery.com/scrum)
📐 Estimating Business Apps (https://customery.com/estimating)

Keep experimenting 🧪
-Neil