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#130. Sprint 1 is a magical, wonderful, beautiful thing. Find out how my messy, unstructured and un-estimated sprint 1 unfurled on a recent project to build a Power Platform app for a mid-size Microsoft customer in financial services.In-person conferences I didn't attend:Power Platform ConferenceNordic SummitSouth Coast SummitUpcoming online conferences I'm presenting at:2 Nov 2022 at Power Platform 244 Nov 2022 at New Zealand Business Applications SummitLearn how to qualify, pitch, propose and close more agile projects:Winning Agile ProjectsTools we're using in sprint one:Miro for visual collaborationAtlassian Confluence for wiki pagesAtlassian Bitbucket and Sourcetree for source controlAzure DevOps for backlog, boards and pipelinesSlack for chatZoom for meetingsSharePoint for file sharingCopy.ai for AI-assisted creative copywritingSupport the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

19 Loka 202215min

#129. Learn how to use story point estimation to estimate the relative size of your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform application's requirements.You'll also learn:How to slice user stories into the right size for estimation and developmentHow to decide on a standard user story for comparing other stories against when estimatingHow to use affinity estimation or planning poker to estimate the relative size of user storiesHow to derive the duration that describes how long it'll take to build the feature after you've estimated the sizeThis episode is the third of three episodes taken from my new course: Estimating Business Applications. You can join for free today and get access to the first three sections containing 17 video lessons and 3 quizzes to test your understanding.Support the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

27 Syys 202217min

#128. My wife, Natascha, is a faster trail runner than I am. Find out why estimating trail runs in units of time leads to misaligned expectations about how long it'll take for us to run the same trail together. You'll also learn:What story points areThree factors affecting the size of a requirementHow to account for Hick's Law and Weber's Law when choosing an estimation scaleThe two estimation scales commonly used by agile teamsThe estimation scale my teams useThis episode is the second of three episodes taken from my new course: Estimating Business Applications. You can join for free today and get access to the first three sections containing 17 video lessons and 3 quizzes to test your understanding.Support the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

14 Syys 202212min

#127. Do you really have to estimate the effort of building the Dynamics 365 or Power Platform apps you've been asked to build? If you work for a Microsoft partner, you probably do -- unless you work for a customer who doesn't care how much it costs or how long it takes. Find out how I approach estimation:How much and how long?Why estimates are notoriously inaccurateEstimating time doesn't workEstimating t-shirts doesn't eitherEstimates, forecasts and commitmentsThis episode is the first of three episodes taken from my new course: Estimating Business Applications. You can join for free today and get access to the first three sections containing 17 video lessons and 3 quizzes to test your understanding.Support the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

25 Elo 202220min

#126. Thanks for all your questions about estimating business applications. In this episode, I tackle four tricky situations when it comes to estimating Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications.Should we re-estimate items in our backlog after we’re done because they were easier or harder than originally expected? — TanikaIf we don’t complete a story by the end of the sprint, should we re-estimate how much work is remaining and split the story points across the sprints in which the work got done? — JaneShould we estimate user stories or estimate tasks of the user stories? — NazShould our developers include the time spent in scrum events in their estimates? — DipeshResourcesEstimating Business Applications, my new course available for free from Customery Academy."When Will It Be Done?: Lean-Agile Forecasting to Answer Your Customer's Most Important Question" by Daniel Vicanti. Support the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

15 Elo 202213min

#125. In this episode of Amazing Applications, Emil Hovgaard and Sheelan Bhana of EY Nordic Tech Hub share the story behind EY's PowerPost application and how it has made the General Ledger posting process easier and faster for the EY organization. Emil’s background and his role at the EY organizationSheelan’s background and his role at the EY organizationEmil’s favorite Microsoft applicationSheelan’s favorite Microsoft applicationWhat Emil did during his time in the EY strategy team in AustraliaThe internal purpose of the EY organizationThe business challenge that Emil’s team had to solve that led to the creation of the PowerPost applicationThe approach that Emil and his team took in building the PowerPost applicationSheelan talks about connecting to SAP from a Power Platform application and the challenges that came with thatWhat the PowerPost project team looked likeEmil’s definition of a Fusion teamSheelan’s experience working with Fusion developersWhat drove members of the EY Global Finance and ERP teams to support the creation of the PowerPost application?How Sheelan and the team gathered requirementsThe tools that Sheelan and the team used in building the PowerPost applicationThe testing approach that Sheelan and the team usedHow long did the PowerPost project take?The challenges that Sheelan and the team faced during the course of the PowerPost projectHow did Emil and his team approach user interface design?How Nordic Tech Hub is responding to the possibility of users demanding more from Microsoft business applicationsThe results that EY managed to achieve using the PowerPost applicationWhat’s next for Nordic Tech Hub?ResourcesEY helps enable entry at source for a global finance process with Power Platform, reducing lead times by 95 percent on Microsoft Customer Stories.Emil Hovegaard on LinkedIn Sheelan Bhana on LinkedInSupport the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

12 Elo 202222min

#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 documentation", right?Before projects start, my teams document requirements in a product backlog, visualise the backlog in a user story map, and discuss the project during a solution blueprint review workshop.During sprints, we're writing unit tests, functional test cases, describing our features in wiki pages and tracking our decisions in a decision register.Towards the end of the project or before a production release, we'll export the wiki as an as-as-built solution design document and hand it over the axe-wielding psychopaths who will be supporting and maintaining our applications.And, of course, we'll produce all the other documentation our product owner asks us to if she create documentation-related items and prioritises them in the product backlog.RESOURCESMicrosoft Learn: Create a solution blueprint for Dynamics 365 solutionsFastTrack Solution Blueprint presentation templateWrite unit tests with FakeXrmEasySupport the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

29 Heinä 202210min

#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 stakeholders, and they stampede to accept your invite and beat down the door at sprint review, that's a great sprint goal.This episode includes examples of sprint goals for Dynamics 365 and Power Apps projects and answers sprint goal questions like:What's the benefit for having a good sprint goal? How do we write good sprint goals?How can we use sprint goals?Can we have more than one sprint goal?How do we create a sprint goal for lots of different unrelated items?What sprint goal is your team working on? Let me know on LinkedIn.Support the showCONNECT🌏 Amazing Apps website🟦 Customery on LinkedIn🟦 Neil Benson on LinkedIn MY ONLINE COURSES🚀 Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps 🏉 Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps 📐 Estimating Business Apps Keep experimenting 🧪-Neil

21 Heinä 202212min