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Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumUnpacking User Stories and Backlog Refinement with Dani Kahil#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 with Jira, highlighting some configuration challenges, while Dani expresses a strong preference for Azure DevOps. They dive into the hierarchy of backlog items, including epics, features, user stories, and tasks, and explore different approaches to tracking progress on a Kanban board. Throughout their conversation, Neil and Dani discuss the importance of refining user stories, enriching them with acceptance criteria, and prioritising features based on their value to t...2023-11-0748 min
Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumWhat's Next for Customery Academy?#137. Customery Academy is the online business through which Amazing Apps host, Neil Benson, trains and coaches Microsoft customers and partners to build amazing, agile business applications.In this episode, Neil shares a short history of Customery Academy, where it's at today, and its goals for 2023. Halfway through editing the episode, there's a surprise about just how many Customery Academy students have achieved their Professional Scrum Master certification thanks to his son's detective work.RESOURCESCustomery AcademyAgile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free courseScrum for Microsoft Business Apps courseWinning Agile Projects masterclass for Microsoft partnersEstimating...2023-02-2215 min
Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumSix challenges of Enterprise Dynamics 365 Projects with Andrew Bibby and Dani Kahil#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 Business Applications MVPs. Dani is an independent consultant and online trainer specialising in requirements analysis and solution envisioning. Andrew Bibby is a founder of Proximo 3, a Microsoft training and advisory partner based in the UK.Dani and Andrew discuss:How Andrew's client engaged him as an advisor to help the customer and their Microsoft partner organisations work effectively together.They started with a proof of concept to evaluate the Dynamics 365 p...2022-05-0348 min
Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumPower Platform at the Heart of Scotland’s New Recycling Scheme#112. Dani Kahil interviews Paddy Byrne about the Power Platform's role in enabling Scotland's new recycling scheme for single-use drinking containers.Scots people are famous for being careful with their money so I imagine any program to pay them for recycling containers was always going to be a big hit.Learn about Paddy's Power Platform team:Meeting public-sector's accessibility and security requirements with a custom web portal rather than Power Apps Portals.Internal project team of a functional consultants, project manager/scrum master, and business analyst; and a client project team with an architect and...2022-03-2838 min
Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumEnterprise CRM with scaled Scrum at RACQ#109. In this special episode, I'm interviewed by Dani Kahil about my experience delivering an enterprise CRM project at RACQ (the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland). RACQ is a membership organisation serving two million people in Queensland with roadside assistance, insurance and banking services. In 2018, they set out to replace two legacy systems with Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Apttus and I had the pleasure of leading their Dynamics 365 delivery team.ResourcesDani Kahil's websiteDani's course: Functional Consulting - requirements analysis for a successful project deliveryDani Kahil on LinkedIn2022-01-2449 min
Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumMastering Dynamics 365 Requirements in Azure DevOps with Dani Kahil#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.Why use Azure DevOps to manage requirements?Structuring requirements into epics, features and user storiesUsing a definition of ready to manage your backlogIs requirements approval an anti-pattern?Using different types of items in Azure DevOpsChoosing an Azure DevOps process: Scrum or Agile?Adding attachments in DevOpsHandling sub-tasks and defectsHow much detail should a user story have?When is a user story too small?Who writes user...2021-09-1324 min
Amazing Apps - learn how to build agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business apps using ScrumLives Lived Well with Dani Kahil#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...2020-07-3041 min