Do We Need to Rethink How We Build Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Apps?

#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 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

28 Sep 202014min

#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 deployed at Centria, in Lima, Peru.Ana came from an HR administrator role and today is an HR application functional consultant at FourVision.Ana's project team created a Dynamics 365 for Talent companion app using Power Apps to enhance the recruiting process at Centria.HR departments and their applications are often treated as a cost to the organisation.This is slowly changing but sometimes HR professionals could do more to improve how they are perceived.COVID-19 has presented HR professionals with an opportunity to lead their company's culture.It took a small team of just three people to build the Power App.Part-way through the project, the client asked for robotic process automation (RPA) to help improve the efficiency of their HR processes.At the end of the project, Microsoft announced that Dynamics 365 for Talent was being deprecated.The client wasn't happy, of course, but they are able to use Talent Attract and Onboard until 2022.The upside of Microsoft's changing product strategies is that Microsoft partners have become more flexible in their thinking and approaches. Configuring Dynamics 365 for Talent was relatively easy. The hardest part of the project was integrating the Power App with SAP, which involved a dependency on another team.The project's success was assisted by Ana's HR career background which helped her empathise with her stakeholders.There was very open and transparent communication between the project team and its stakeholders that built trust.A third factor that contributed to the app's success was the confidence and leadership of the HR general manager (who had been Ana's former co-worker).Connect with AnaLinkedIn: Ana Inés Urrutia de SouzaBlog: AnaInesUrrutia.comTwitter: @AnaInesUrrutiaSupport 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 Sep 202021min

#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 -- the event's director, Molly Fuschel.You can register for free today at DynamicsCon.com.I'm presenting "Tell Me a Story", which will be packed with proven practices for managing your Dynamics 365 or Power Apps product backlog. My session is 9am US Central Time, Wednesday 9 September.I'll be available during and after my session to answer your questions and hang out with Amazing App builders. I hope to see you there.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

2 Sep 202031min

#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 Power Platform project manager, business analyst, solution architect, pre-sales consultant, developer, or in business development, you'll find out how to answer those key questions in this in-depth episode.For full show notes and transcript, visit https://customery.com/004Check out part 1, Estimating Power Platform and Dynamics 365 applications, to discover more about forecasting how long it's going to take and how much it's going to cost.To join my free Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps mini-course, visit https://customery.com/foundations.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

24 Aug 202022min

#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 the high-level requirementsAdopting Scrum gradually during the course of the projectThe benefit of having a scrum master (or a project manager) who is familiar with ScrumDani's advice for Microsoft customers who are new to the product owner roleUsing a blend of partner and customer resourcesChallenges they had switching from Voice of the Customer to FormsProGoing live as the COVID-19 pandemic hit AustraliaPitching an agile approach to prospective clientsUsing Azure DevOps for product backlog management and managing test casesDani's requirements mastering and solution envisioning peer groupThe Amazing App show's first review on PodchaserShow ContactsDani Kahil on LinkedInEmpiredLives Lived WellCustomery Academy students: Luis Guzman and Matt BaumShow ResourcesDani Kahil's blogDani Kahil's Mastering Solution Envisioning peer groupScrum for Microsoft Business AppsAmazing Applications show on PodchaserSupport 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

30 Juli 202041min

#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, Estimating how long and how much, to discover more about forecasting how long it's going to take and how much it's going to cost.For full show notes and transcription, visit: https://customery.com/002We need to estimate our requirements for two reasons: time and moneyWe don't always need to estimate our applications, but exceptions are rareAccuracy and precision are different thingsEstimation is not a one-time activity and should be repeatedAre we estimating effort or complexity or something else?Ideal time, story points and t-shirt sizesMy recommended estimation unitsSupport 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 Juli 202028min

#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 recession.James PhillipsSarah CritchleyKathrine HogsethNeil ParkhurstMohamed MostafaElaiza BenitezDian TaylorLeon TribeFrieda MaherDalia RaphaelAndrew BibbyLisa CrosbieCedrick HolmesDavid KoharAndrew WelchSupport 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

18 Juni 20201h 16min

#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 music.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

12 Juni 20204min