Podcasts by Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using Scrum

Unpacking User Stories and Backlog Refinement with Dani Kahil from 2023-11-07T09:00

#152.  Host Neil Benson is joined by the talented Dani Kahil for an insightful discussion on managing backlogs and enhancing user stories in Azure DevOps and Jira. Neil shares his experiences wi...

Super CRM: a case study from 2023-10-02T20:00

#151. Amazing Apps host, Neil Benson, dives into a case study from one of his team's own projects: "Member Super", a financial services organisation in Australia. With over a mill...

A Big Bang? Going Live with Dynamics 365 or Power Platform with Andrew Bibby from 2023-09-19T18:00

#150. What does it take to have a successful go live event for your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform application. Neil Benson sat down with Andrew Bibby, a seasoned expert in Microsoft Dynamics 36...

Breaking Free from the Tyranny of the Deliverable with Andrew Welch from 2023-09-06T20:00

#149. Andrew Welch is the Chief Technology Officer at HSO. Andrew is an expert in IT strategy and has a wealth of experience advising customers on their big strategic technology decisions. He is...

Power Platform pipelines or Azure DevOps pipelines for ALM? with Benedikt Bergmann from 2023-08-21T18:00

#147. When should you use Power Platform pipelines and when should you use Azure DevOps pipelines to deploy your Power Platform or Dynamics 365 applications? That's the question that Benedi...

Can you really gain competitive advantage with Dynamics 365? with Martin Hinshelwood from 2023-08-01T19:00

#146. In this episode, we're thrilled to have Martin Hinshelwood from naked Agility join host, Neil Benson. Martin shares his perspectives on improving the success of agile engagements thro...

Chris Huntingford Doesn't Believe in Citizen Developers from 2023-07-20T09:00

#145. We're back with another incredible episode of Amazing Apps, and this time we have an amazing guest on board. Neil Benson is joined by the Low Code Lead & Platform Evangelist at AN...

Joining an existing team as a new scrum master with Matthew Venamore from 2023-07-05T20:00

#144.  Neil Benson is joined by Matthew Venamore, a scrum master with extensive experience coaching Dynamics 365 teams. Matthew shares valuable insights into the challenges faced by new scrum ma...

Who do we need in our Business Apps team? from 2023-06-23T19:00

#143. On this episode of Amazing Apps, we discuss resourcing agile teams using the Scrum framework. Neil Benson talks about who we should have on our teams as product owner, developers and scrum...

Smaller Teams, Bigger Wins: how to split your enterprise apps teams from 2023-06-03T08:00

#142. Neil Benson discusses the challenges of organizing a large Scrum team to maximize efficiency. He suggests rotating developers between teams and organizing teams around specific components ...

Navigating the role of an architect in a Dynamics 365 Scrum team with Allan de Castro from 2023-05-19T14:00

#141. On this episode of Amazing Apps, podcast host Neil Benson is joined by Allan de Castro, a senior technical consultant for the Power Platform at Avanade France.

They discuss their ...

Agile Testing for Dynamics 365 with Emma Beckett from 2023-03-30T02:00

#139. Today’s guest is Emma Beckett, an experienced test professional who runs her own company, Fortitude 17, in London, UK. A professional footballer, Emma pursued a career in software testing,...

Deep dive into Dynamics 365 Marketing with Malin Martnes from 2023-03-21T21:00

#138. My guest today is Malin Martnes, a Microsoft MVP and MCT who runs her own company MaCoTra AS in Oslo, Norway. As you’ll hear, Malin doesn’t have any technical background on Dynamics 365 an...

What's Next for Customery Academy? from 2023-02-23T01:00

137. Customery Academy is my online business through which I coach and train Microsoft customers and partners to build amazing, agile business applications.

In this episode, I share a s...

Professional Scrum and DevOps with Richard Hundhausen from 2023-02-16T02:00

136. My guest is Richard Hundhausen, a former Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Professional Scrum Framework. As you’l...

I'm Beginning to Hate Scrum from 2023-02-09T09:00

#135. Remy is starting to hate Scrum. He thinks we should use Kanban. And get rid of Product Owners.

It's a shame, then, that Remy doesn't understand Scrum. And doesn't ...

Is Power Fx really low code? with Rishona Elijah from 2023-01-31T23:00

#134. Today’s guest is Rishona Elijah, a Microsoft MVP (Business Applications) and Microsoft Certified Trainer who works as a Power Platform Trainer and Evangelist at Barhead Solutions in Sydney...

Power Platform Governance Possibilities with Michael Roth from 2023-01-04T15:00

#133. Today’s guest is Michael Roth, a Power Platform consultant with Avanade who specializes in governance.

In this episode, Michael walks us through how he keeps business apps amazing by...

Using Figma to design business apps with Andrew Ly from 2022-12-14T01:00

132. Today’s guest is Andrew Ly, a Microsoft Business Applications Solutioning Lead at IBM Consulting in Australia.

Andrew shares his 22 years of experience in the Microsoft space, includi...

Sprint 1 is done! from 2022-10-20T08:00

#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 M...

Estimating Requirements for Your Microsoft Business App from 2022-09-27T19:00

129. Learn how to use story point estimation to estimate the relative size of your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform application's requirements.

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Using Story Points to Estimate Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Apps from 2022-09-14T19:00

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 ...

Why Estimate Business Apps At All? from 2022-08-25T11:00

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...

Advanced Estimating Q&A from 2022-08-16T03:00

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 applicatio...

Documenting Your Agile Applications from 2022-07-29T15:00

#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...

Sprint Goals for Microsoft Business Apps from 2022-07-21T15:00

#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 ...

Can You Build an App Without a Product Owner? from 2022-07-05T08:00

122. Ethan is a scrum master for a Power Platform team and his team is trying to build an app but the customer's product owner hasn't shown up yet! What should he do?

If your ...

Power Platform governance at a global scale with Rene Modery from 2022-06-17T15:00

121. What's it like trying to manage 10 Microsoft 365 tenants with hundreds of environments, apps and citizen developers. Rene Modery, Power Platform Technical Lead shares his journey at gl...

Defining requirements for complex Power Platform apps with Hamish Sheild from 2022-06-07T17:00

120. Hamish Sheild describes his five step Solution Mapping framework for using design thinking principles to define the requirements for complex Power Platform applications.

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Power Pages and beyond with Ulrikke Akerbæk from 2022-05-19T15:00

118. Ulrikke Akerbæk joins to discuss what's new with Power Pages (still called Power Apps Portals when we recorded this episode under NDA!). Discover some of the goodies Microsoft has been...

Power Pages and beyond with Ulrikke Akerbæk from 2022-05-19T15:00

118. Ulrikke Akerbæk joins to discuss what's new with Power Pages (still called Power Apps Portals when we recorded this episode under NDA!). Discover some of the goodies Microsoft has been...

Answer These Five Questions Before You Build Anything with Chike Eduputa from 2022-05-12T16:00

117. Chike Eduputa challenges citizen developers (and professional developers) to ask themselves five critical questions before building their next Power Platform or Dynamics 365 app.

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Six challenges of enterprise Dynamics 365 projects with Andrew Bibby and Dani Kahil from 2022-05-03T16:00

#116. Dani Kahil interviews Andrew Bibby about a pivotal, multi-year Dynamics 365 business transformation project in financial services. 

Dani Kahil and Andrew Bibby are both Microsoft ...

Personalise Your Customer Experience with Dynamics 365 with Guro Faller and Tricia Sinclair from 2022-04-12T01:00

#114. I'm joined by Microsoft MVPs Guro Faller and Tricia Sinclair. Guro and Tricia are presenting at Scottish Summit in Glasgow in June.

Their presentation is "Personalize Y...

From the Basement to the Cloud with Vivian Voss from 2022-04-05T01:00

#113. Vivian Voss joins me to discuss her upcoming Scottish Summit session, From the Basement to the Cloud - Your Journey from CRM on-premises to Dynamics 365 CE.

RACQ (the Royal Automobile Club of...

Behind the scenes of Amazing Applications from 2022-01-04T16:00

108. If you're considering starting a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform podcast in 2022, or just wonder what's involved in producing a podcast episode, join me for a behind the scenes loo...

Blended teams: customer and partner co-development from 2021-12-23T17:00

#107. What would you do if you ran a Microsoft partner business and your customer wanted to stack your scrum their with their developers?

This is the story of Selina who runs Gotham Her...

Product Backlog Refinement: Who's Involved? (And Why!) from 2021-12-07T23:00

#106. You and the Microsoft Business Apps product owner are on Teams going through the product backlog. You two are working on it together because that’s how it has always been done. And yet, wh...

How did you get scrum master training? from 2021-11-29T21:00

#105. Dan Foster, a senior consultant and solutions architect at CRM Dynamics, asks, "Have you found much benefit from your being a scrum master? If so, how did you get that training?"...

Should You Assign Stories to Developers in Sprint Planning? from 2021-11-19T14:00

#104. Should we assign items to a developer during sprint planning?

Some of my scrum teams building Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications assign sprint backlog items to a named d...

Microsoft FastTrack Success by Design with Seth Kircher from 2021-10-19T07:00

103. The Microsoft FastTrack Success by Design implementation guide was first published in May 2021 and has refreshed this month (October 2021) in the 2021 Wave 2 update .

What is Succe...

"OMG, I love your new system. It's so easy to use!"with Bruce Sithole, 365 Mechanix from 2021-09-30T07:00

#102. Bruce Sithole's team at 265 Mechanix built a Power Portal application for a business to business lender that earned some serious kudos for his customer. Find out how in this episode o...

Business Transformation with Microsoft Business Apps with Lipi Sarkar from 2021-09-16T15:00

#101. DynamicsCon starts next week. Lipi Sarkar is presenting two sessions at DynamicsCon and joins me to share the highlights from her presentations as well as her book, Build a Digital Future....

Mastering Dynamics 365 Requirements in Azure DevOps with Dani Kahil from 2021-09-14T01:00

#100. Are you looking for better ways to manage your Dynamics 365 and Power Platform requirements in Azure DevOps? Join me and Dani Kahil as we explore what it takes to master your requirements....

How to Design Forms for Amazing User Experiences with Mary Ann Castro from 2021-09-03T21:00

#99. We all know that good form design is important especially when we're building model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365 apps. But what actually makes a good form design?

Join m...

Hello, My Sweet Chatbot 🥰with Dian Taylor from 2021-08-25T01:00

#98. Hey everyone, Dian Taylor is here! Dian is a two-time MVP and a director of pre-sales at RSM US. She's presenting, 'Getting Started with Power Virtual Agents' at DynamicsCon ...

5 Reasons To Avoid Analysis in Advance from 2021-08-17T01:00

#97. I share five reasons why I think you should avoid analysis in advance when you're building Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. 

My five top reasons:

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Advanced Product Owner Questions from 2021-07-27T01:00

#96. I continue the deeper dive into the role of the Product Owner with advanced Product Owner questions. 

This episode covers:

• Can the product owner role be combined with scrum...
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10 Product Owner Myths on Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Projects from 2021-07-14T01:00

#95. I continue the deeper dive into the role of the Product Owner, who is responsible for maximizing the impact of the application that the scrum team is building. And I think our product owner...

Product Goals for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 from 2021-07-06T01:00

#94. I dive deeper into getting into the right mindset to build applications.  In the last episode, we looked at ten potential candidates for the product owner role in our scrum teams building P...

Who Makes the Best Scrum Product Owner? from 2021-06-29T01:00

#93. I dive deeper into getting into the right mindset to build applications, including using the Scrum agile approach.

This episode covers:

• Why the Product Owner is the most cr...
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Apps for Winning Awards with Gail Mercer-MacKay, Mercer MacKay Solutions from 2021-06-22T01:00

#92. Join me with Gail Mercer-MacKay, the founder and CEO of Mercer-MacKay. They have a unique position in the Microsoft ecosystem: they help Microsoft partners clarify their marketing message a...

Power BI Deferred Design with Reza Rad, RADACAD from 2021-06-15T01:00

#91. Join me with Reza Rad, the founder and CEO of RADACAD providing Power BI training and consultancy services to thousands of Microsoft customers and partners every year. Reza's list of a...

Building a CRM App for Financial Advisors with Stephen Handley, Fin365 from 2021-06-09T01:00

#90. Join me with Stephen Handley,founder, CEO and chief architect at Fin365, an application development business serving financial services professionals in Australia. Fin365 was born out of ne...

A Power Apps Portal for 1 Million Users in 100 hours with Mohammed Mohsin Khalid, Imperium Dynamics from 2021-06-01T01:00

#89. Join me with Mohammad Mohsin Khalid. And he's the founder, CEO and chief architect at Imperium Dynamics. He and his team built a Power Portal to support a million constituents booking ...

Adopting the Power Platform with Brendan Eger, Partners in Health from 2021-05-26T01:00

#88. Join me with Brendan Eger,  an Associate Director of Information Systems and Analytics at Partners In Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Brendan's story is a fascinating ...

Power Apps for 100,000 users with Mandar Zope, Slalom Consulting from 2021-05-18T01:00

#87. Join me with Mandar Zope, a principal consultant at Slalom Consulting from Seattle. Mandar has been busy building business applications that are being used by a hundred thousand users at a ...

Agile Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations with Paul Heisterkamp from 2021-05-12T01:00

#86. Join me with Paul Heisterkamp, a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect and developer at GWS in Germany. 

Paul shares with us his story of a multi-country Dynamics 365...

Are Microsoft Certifications Causing Projects to Fail? with Julie Yack and Julian Sharp from 2021-05-04T01:00

#85. Join me with Julie Yack and Julian Sharp as we  discuss my question, "Are Microsoft certifications causing projects to fail?" Julie Yack is a founder and the chief operations offi...

Bonus: Extended Interview with Marc Schweigert from 2021-04-22T01:00

#83. Bonus extended interview with Marc Schweigert,  principal program manager on the Power Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft as we talk about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches...

Bonus: Extended Interview with Marc Schweigert from 2021-04-22T01:00

#83. Bonus extended interview with Marc Schweigert,  principal program manager on the Power Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft as we talk about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches...

Power Apps ALM Accelerator for Advanced Makers with Marc Schweigert, Microsoft from 2021-04-20T01:00

#82. Join me with Marc Schweigert, a  programme manager on the Power Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft as we talk about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches suited to novices and ...

3 User Story Traps to Avoid with Power Platform and Dynamics 365 from 2021-03-30T01:00

#80. Richard asks about working with user stories in a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform agile project.

I'll spend this episode talking about user stories on Dynamics 365 and Power Platf...

Bonus: Extended Interview with CJ Brooks, MISSION CRM from 2021-03-25T01:00

#79. Bonus extended interview with CJ Brooks, a Fundraising and Engagement Architect at Mission CRM as we talk about how Mission CRM closed the doors on their consulting practice to focus on bui...

The Making of MISSION CRM with CJ Brooks from 2021-03-23T01:00

#78. Join me with CJ Brooks, a Fundraising and Engagement Architect at Mission CRM as we talk about how Mission CRM closed the doors on their consulting practice to focus on building the Mission...

Bonus: Extended Interview with Bert Wijns, Power Accelerate from 2021-03-18T01:00

#77. Bonus extended interview with Bert Wijns, a Global Solution Strategy Architect a Microsoft and co-founder of Power Accelerate as we talk about the tool he created which allows you to take a...

Automagically Building Power Apps with Bert Wijns, Power Accelerate from 2021-03-16T01:00

#76. Join me with Bert Wijns, a Global Solution Strategy Architect a Microsoft and co-founder of Power Accelerate as we talk about the tool he created which allows you to take a screenshot of a ...

Building Power Platform Applications for a Church with Haniel Croitoru, Protiviti from 2021-03-09T01:00

#75. Join me with Haniel Croitoru, Associate Director of Protiviti, a Technology Consulting solutions provider in Toronto, Canada.  Haniel shares a story about one of his power platform projects...

#NoEstimates Business Applications with Vasco Duarte from 2021-03-02T01:00

#74. Join me with Vasco Duarte who runs Oikosofy a coaching company in Finland and is also behind the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast. Vasco is the author of a fascinating book, #NoEstimates. Vasco...

Documenting Power Apps with Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp from 2021-02-24T01:00

#73. Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp, co-hosts of the XrmToolCast join Neil Benson to answer the questions about how to document complex systems when asked to "devise a roadmap for migrating a D...

Should You Design Upfront When Scaling Development? from 2021-02-16T01:00

#72. Michael Nunes asks, "When multiple systems are being delivered by different parties, I find that we have to design the details upfront, then use agile for the delivery of the Dynamics ...

Can a Scrum Team Have Just One Developer? from 2021-02-09T01:00

#71. Daniel Kerridge says, "I'm the only developer in my team so I just wondered if there's a special version of Scrum that works in that scenario."

There are three ...

Have you ever fired a client? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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.

Estimating: how long and how much from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

Advice if your business applications career is impacted by a recession from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

Mercury xRM with Chris Kendrick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Kendrick is the founder and CEO of Mercury XRM, who develop recruitment software on Dynamics 365 Sales. We discuss parsing resumes (and fine-tuning your own resume), as well as entity model d...

Agile Architects with Gus Gonzalez and Joel Lindstrom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

I'm joined by Gus Gonzalez and Joel Lindstrom to discuss the role of solution architects in agile teams implementing Microsoft Business Applications.For full show notes visit: https://customery.com...

Power Apps prototyping with Clément Olivier from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

My guest is Clément Olivier from Javista in Nantes, France. Clément was recently awarded a Power Platform FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect designation. He was one of 8 first-time Power Apps ...

Live inside my daily scrums from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This is a special, bonus episode of Scrum Dynamics with a live recording from inside my current Scrum teams' daily scrums. Take a sneak peek as my development teams share their progress with each o...

EY Kalman and CRM success at Orbis Investment Advisory from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

EY Kalman, also known as the CRM Ninja, joins me in this episode of Scrum Dynamics to reveal the critical factors behind the success of his Dynamics CRM project at Orbis Investment Advisory.Listen ...

40 - Estimating Bugs in Scrum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There are two ways of handling bugs in Scrum:1. Bug Estimators treat bugs like any other product backlog item. They write a card, estimate it, add it to the product backlog, prioritise it and work ...

39 - Definition of Next from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Imagine you're a member of a development team implementing Microsoft Business Applications using Scrum. What do you do when you've completed the item you're working on?Inspired by my favourite TV s...

38 - Agile Foundations Course Launch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If you’re brand new to agile software development and are wondering how an agile approach can be applied to your Dynamics 365, PowerApps, PowerBI or Flow project, I’ve launched a new free mini-cour...

37 - Steve Brooks from Cooper Parry IT Solutions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Steve Books is the consultancy director of Cooper Parry IT Solutions, this year's winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Dynamics 365 Business Central.Cooper Parry has had a lot of s...

36 - David Conti and Monadelphous from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

David Conti surprised me with the size of Velrada's project that was a finalist in the 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Dynamics 365 Field Service awards.Listen in as David reveals the size o...

34 - Mohamed Mostafa and Eagle Housing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mohamed Mostafa is the Solutions Director at TechLabs London, best known for iPropertyCloud, a suite of business applications for property companies.In this episode, Mohamed joins me to discuss the...

34 - Andrew Bibby and Devon Financial Services from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew is a Microsoft MVP with over 12 years’ experience implementing Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 for several Microsoft partners and through his own company as an independent project advisor.The ...

33 - Migrating to Business Central with NAB Solutions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In Scrum Dynamics episode 33, I'm joined by Johan Ademark and Carolina Edvinsson from NAB Solutions. NAB Solutions is a finalist in the 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards for the innovative ...

32 - Measuring Customisations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Have you ever been asked,"How much have you customised Dynamics 365?""Is our CRM system customised more or less than average?""Have we customised our system too much?"I've heard this question lots ...

31 - Scrum Disaster from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Have you ever had a Dynamics 365 project disaster? In Scrum Dynamics 31, I share the tale of my failed Dynamics 365 Portals project. It got cancelled by the client before we released to production....

30 - Emergent Design from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Emergent design is an advanced practice for Microsoft Business Application team experienced in Scrum.With emergent design, the development team designs the solution to meet the users’ needs just be...

29 - Done with the PowerApps Solution Checker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Can you use a definition of done for a sprint?In Scrum Dynamics 29, I outline six ideas for a definition of done for a user story and three ideas for a definition of done for a sprint.What definiti...

28 - Shawn, Stop Estimating Effort in Days from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Shawn Tabor wants to know whether to estimate project effort in hours or story points. Aren't they the same thing?I've used four ways of estimating effort in his Dynamics 365 projects:Counting card...

27 - User Story Maps from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonas Wauters from KPMG Belgium has a challenge pitching a Dynamics 365 project using Scrum to a prospective client. In particular, he'd like to know how to handle it when clients ask those three l...

26 - Sprinting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dan Barber, 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-d...

25 - Written Answers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The question in this episode is from Ruan Kilian, a Dynamics 365 developer in Brisbane, Australia. Ruan asks,“Is it acceptable for a developer to prepare and write down the answers to the three que...

24 - Scrum Role Antipatterns from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neil covers his top 10 antipatterns for Scrum roles in Dynamics 365 projects. 1. Uncommitted product owner2. Committee of product owners3. Overdriving product owner4. Learn-as-you-go product owner5...

23 - Hiring a Coach for Your Dynamics 365 Scrum Team from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neil is joined by co-host Dermot to discuss when Microsoft Dynamics customers and partners should consider hiring a scrum master or agile coach.What is an agile coach and how is this role different...

22 - Scrum Event Antipatterns from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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.There are hundreds of Scrum antipatterns you’ll e...

21 - Azure DevOps with Mark Christie from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Christie, who specialises in Dynamics 365 for Field Service at eBECS, uses Azure DevOps (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services). Azure DevOps combines planning tools such as backlogs a...

20 - Scrum in Public Sector with Seth T. Bacon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Seth Bacon and Neil discuss how to sell agile projects in public sector organisations, how to handle fixed-price, fixed-scope, fixed-timeline contracts and projects by encouraging the customer’s pr...

19 - Optimising Scrum Teams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We’re on a mission to ensure every Microsoft customer and partner successfully implements Dynamics 365 using the Scrum framework.Todd Mercer, from MD Financial Management in Ottawa Canada, asks “Wh...

18 - Successfully Implementing Dynamics 365 with Scrum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neil recently presented a live session on YouTube for the Dynamics 365 Community Corner. * How and why he switched from Microsoft Dynamics SureStep to Scrum after publishing the functional require...

17 - What To Track from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 'do...

16 - Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 struc...

15 - More Listeners' Q&A from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dermot’s picked up two Scrum certifications. Good timing, Dermot. Our first question is from Dick Clark at eBECS who has a client who wants to get certified in Scrum. Joel Lindstrom drops in to adm...

14 - Launching Jupiter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 te...

13 - Sprint Planning from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

12 - The Sprint Backlog from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Co-hosts, Neil and Dermot (yes, he's back!), discuss the sprint backlog. What is the sprint backlog and who owns it? How to handle capacity issues towards the end of the sprint. Using a ‘Definition...

11 - Estimating Product Backlog Using Planning Poker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Estimating product backlog items using planning poker is the topic for this episode 11. * Benefits of planning poker * Who plays planning poker * When to play planning poker during each sprint * Wh...

10 - The Product Backlog from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 * Estimatin...

9 - Nick Doelman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neil is joined by Nick Doelman (@ReadyXRM) who shares his experience learning Scrum and applying it to one of his recent Dynamics 365 projects.

8 - Listeners’ Q&A from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dermot and Neil answer questions submitted by podcast listeners about:1. Estimating chores to reduce technical debt (Todd Mercer).2. Prioritizing items with dependencies and the principle of emerge...

7 - Sprints and the Daily Scrum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 s...

6 - The Development Team from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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-fun...

5 - Success with Scrum for Dynamics 365 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 the last ten years. He also highlights the lessons...

4 - The Role of the Scrum Master from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neil and Dermot discuss the role of the scrum master in a Dynamics 365 project.

3 - The Product Owner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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* Charac...

2 - Defining Scrum Terms from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 * P...

How to manage scope creep in an agile project? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this Q&A episode, Stephen Price , Digital Solution Architect at ITK Consulting in Canada, asks, "How should we manage scope creep within a sprint in an agile project?"The scope of our product is...

Data migration in agile Dynamics 365 projects from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Venamore, scrum master at RACQ, asks about how to handle data migration on agile Dynamics 365 projects.My recommended approach is for the data migration team to conduct a proof-of-concept or p...

What the Scrum Guide 2020 means for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 teams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neil discusses the five most important changes in Scrum Guide 2020  for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 teams:It's less strict and less about softwareOne team (except when there're multip...

Why have a scrum master when we could have an agile project manager? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Carolle Bruce, Director of Information Technology at Avcorp Industries in Vancouver, asks, "What's the best argument for when senior management says, 'All this agile stuff is great but I don't see ...

Should we have a standard set of user stories for Microsoft business applications? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

David Mochrie, a Power Platform consultant at Magnetism in Auckland, asks, "Should we have a standard set of user stories for Dynamics 365?"A long time ago, I tried to make it easy to write detaile...

How can we adopt Scrum for Dynamics 365 Business Central projects? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Anand Kushalnagar, a project manager at Nexon Asia Pacific in Sydney, asks, "At the moment, we are using a hybrid implementation approach for our projects. How can you deliver Dynamics 365 business...

How can we be sure we've captured all requirements? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Llewellyn, Director of Technology at Osmosys Software Solutions in London asks, "How can you be sure you've captured all the requirements?"Traditional approaches, like Microsoft Dynamics Sure ...

Scrum Guide 2020 launch event from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This year, Scrum is celebrating its 25th anniversary.To celebrate, the Scrum Guide 2020 is being published at a free global launch event at 10:00 EST on Wednesday 18 November 2020.Click here to reg...

Estimating: How Much and How Long from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

35 - Mohamed Mostafa and Eagle Housing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mohamed Mostafa is the Solutions Director at TechLabs London, best known for iPropertyCloud, a suite of business applications for property companies.In this episode, Mohamed joins me to discuss the...

How Can We Bridge the Gap Between Business and IT? from 2021-01-29T11:00

#70. Dan Madden, a program manager at Acensus, asks, "What’s the best way to help bridge that gap between [IT and] the business and...

Should Business Apps Teams Follow the Agile Manifesto? from 2021-01-21T09:00

#69. In this episode, Andreas Dutz, Business Development Manager at HSO from Bavaria, Germany, asks, "Have you defined what agile means? Are your teams trained in the Agile Manifesto and ar...

6 Roles Every Enterprise Business Applications Project Should Have from 2021-01-12T17:00

#68. What does the structure of a scales business application project look like? What groups and roles do you need when you've got 50 or more team members working together for a year or mor...

What Does the Scrum Guide 2020 Mean For Us? from 2020-12-01T01:00

#65. Neil discusses the five most important changes in Scrum Guide 2020  for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 teams:

1. It's less strict and less about software
2. One...
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Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager? from 2020-11-24T01:00

#64. Carolle Bruce, Director of Information Technology at Avcorp Industries in Vancouver, asks, "What's the best argument for wh...

Should We Have a Standard Set of User Stories? from 2020-11-17T01:00

#63. David Mochrie, a Power Platform consultant at Magnetism in Auckland, asks, "Should we have a standard set of user stories for Dy...

How Can We Adopt Scrum for Dynamics 365 Business Central? from 2020-11-10T01:00

#62. Anand Kushalnagar, a project manager at Nexon Asia Pacific in Sydney, asks, "At the moment, we are using a hybrid implementa...

Certification for Dynamics 365 Product Owners from 2020-10-21T21:00

#59. Neal Carty, a Business Solutions Consultant at Traction On Demand in Toronto asks:

1. How does the Professional Scrum Pro...
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Dynamics 365 for Talent with Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza from 2020-09-14T23:00

#57. Join me with Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza, a Dynamics 365 HR consultant at FourVision and a rising star in our Power Platform communit...

Dynamics Con 2020 with Molly Fuschel from 2020-09-02T21:00

#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 gues...

Lives Lived Well with Dani Kahil from 2020-07-30T16:00

#54. I'm joined by Dani Kahil, Microsoft Business Applications practice lead at Empired, who shares the story behind one of his client p...

Estimating Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Applications from 2020-07-14T13:00

#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 a...

15 Industry Leaders Share Their Business Apps Career Advice from 2020-06-18T11:00

#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 aff...

Amazing Apps Show Trailer from 2020-06-13T08:00

#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 sn...

Dynamics 365 for Recruitment Industry with Chris Kendrick, Mercury xRM from 2020-06-02T06:00

#50. Chris Kendrick is the founder and CEO of Mercury xRM, who develop recrui...

Prototyping Power Apps with Clément Olivier from 2020-05-05T06:00

#48. My guest is Clément Olivier from J...

When to Use Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps from 2020-04-17T12:48

#47. Is Scrum the best approach to use for every Microsoft Business Application?

No!

Join me, as we explore the Stacey and Cynefin models that help us make judgements about which typ...

Fixing Your Scrum with Ryan Ripley from 2020-03-27T15:13:35

#46. Ryan Ripley joins me in Amazing Apps to discuss his new book, Fixing Your Scrum.

Ryan is a ...

Live Inside My Daily Scrum from 2020-03-23T17:20:55

#45. This is a special, bonus episode of Amazing Applications with a live recording from inside my current Scrum teams' daily scrum. Take a sneak peek as my developers share their progress ...

Agile is Dead from 2020-02-10T06:08:53

#44. Someone sends me an "Agile is Dead" article at least once a year. Are these articles with their clickbait headlines just opinion pieces with no data to back up the authors' c...

CRM Success at Orbis Investments with EY Kalman from 2020-01-22T07:51:15

#43. EY Kalman, also known as the CRM Ninja, joins me in this episode of Amazing Apps to reveal the critical factors behind the success of ...

All Your Scrum Team Questions Answered from 2019-12-06T05:49:38

#42. The topic for this episode is scrum teams. The composition and the characteristics of your scrum team remain fundamental to you having any success with an agile approach when you're im...

Managing Requirements in Azure DevOps with Tricia Sinclair from 2019-11-07T13:27:54

#41. Lots of Microsoft Business Applications teams use Azure DevOps Repos and Pipelines for managing their source code and automating their code integration, build and deployment processes.

Agile Foundations Course Launch from 2019-10-04T06:48:55

#38. If you’re brand new to agile software development and are wondering how an agile approach can be applied to your Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power BI or Power Automate project, I’ve launched ...

Repeatable Dynamics 365 Business Central with Steve Brooks, Bam Boom Cloud from 2019-08-31T12:36:04

#37. Steve Books is the Chief Technology Officer of Bam Boom Cloud (previously known as Cooper Parry IT Solutions), 2020 winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Dynamics 365 Busine...

Agile Field Service at Monadelphous with David Conti, Velrada from 2019-08-19T20:29:17

#36. David Conti surprised me with the size of Velrada's project that was a finalist in the 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Dynamics 365 Field Service awards.

I had always assu...

Dynamics 365 Turnaround at Eagle Housing with Mohamed Mostafa, iPropertyCloud from 2019-08-06T06:34:11

#35. Mohamed Mostafa is the Solutions Director at TechLabs London, best known for Andrew Bibby about his successful Dynamics 365 project at Devon Financial Services*.

Andrew is a Microsoft Business ...

Migrating to Dynamics 365 Business Central with Johan Adenmark and Carolina Edvinsson from 2019-07-14T07:07:33

#33. I'm joined by Johan Adenmark and Carolina Edvinsson...

How Much Have You Customised Dynamics 365? from 2019-07-04T05:57:40

#32. Have you ever been asked:

• "How much have you customised Dynamics 365?"
• "Is our CRM system customised more or less than average?"
• "Have we...
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Power Apps Portals Disaster (Even with Scrum!) from 2019-06-14T06:43:23

#31. Have you ever had a Dynamics 365 or Power Apps disaster?

I share the tale of my failed Power Apps Portals project. It got cancelled by the client before we released it to production.<...

Emergent Design from 2019-05-30T21:44:13

#30. Emergent design is an advanced practice for Microsoft Business Application team experienced in Scrum.

What is emergent design?

When we practice emergent design, the devel...

Done! With the Power Apps Solution Checker from 2019-05-17T06:17:17

#29. Can you use a definition of done for a sprint?

I outline six ideas for a definition of done for a user story and three ideas for a definition of done for a sprint.

According to ...

Shawn, Stop Estimating Effort in Days! with Shawn Tabor from 2019-05-07T07:23:45

#28. Shawn Tabor wants to know whether to estimate project effort in days or story points. Aren't they the same thing?

I've ...

Pitching Scrum to Microsoft Customers from 2019-04-24T13:31:18

#27. Jonas Wauters from KPMG Belgium has a challenge pitching a Dynamics 365 project using Scrum to a prospective client. In particular, h...

Timeline of a 2-week Sprint from 2019-04-22T11:41:02

#26. Dan Barber, from the Customery Crew, wanted to know what it would be like inside some of Neil’s scrum events. In Scrum Dynamics 26, N...

Reading Your Answers at the Daily Scrum from 2019-04-22T11:36:44

#25. Neil is attempting a little experiment with a short, single question episode on the Amazing Applications podcast and on Youtube. Let’s see if he ...

Scrum Role Antipatterns from 2019-04-22T11:31:41

#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...

Hiring a Coach for Your Dynamics 365 Scrum Team from 2019-04-22T11:22:41

#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 thi...