Requirements details including attachments – Azure DevOps integration with MS Teams and SharePoint

Have you ever opened an Azure DevOps item and experienced an overwhelming amount of information screaming at you, with Business Rules, URL’s and links to attachments files everywhere? While you review the content and try to understand what all the rules mean and where are the documents pointing to, you also notice that files are …

Definition of Ready

Definition of Ready For your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform Project

When do you know that you have enough details in your Story to start the Dev work? Do we really need all the little details defined before we start the build? The Definition of Ready helps to answer those 2 questions. Having an idea of a definition of ready can help everyone on the team …

Requirements Life Cycle

Azure DevOps Boards for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform – Part 3 – REQUIREMENTS LIFE CYCLE

This article is the 3rd of the series on Azure DevOps Boards for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform and covers my approach to requirements life cycle in Azure DevOps Boards. If you have missed my previous articles about Azure DevOps Boards for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform, you can take a look at …

Azure DevOps Boards for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform – Part 2 – CAPTURING REQUIREMENTS

In this article I am elaborating on how to use Azure DevOps Boards to capture requirements and build out your Product Backlog. This article is a continuation of my series of articles about how I use Azure DevOps Boards to structure, capture and manage requirements. Before starting to capture your requirements, I recommend you take …

Structuring Requirements

Azure DevOps Boards for Dynamics 365 or the Power Platform – Part 1 – STRUCTURING REQUIREMENTS

Sydney – July 2016 I’ve just entered one of the office towers in the city. I am meeting with my new client’s Product Owner and the Lead Business Analyst to discuss requirements that they have envisioned for their Dynamics 365 implementation. Katie, the Product Owner, greets me at the reception and walks me to our …

Dealing with uncommon project requirements like an MVP

In this podcast Microsoft MVPs Hamish Shield and Dani Kahil dive into the concept of ‘requirement curveballs’, sharing their experience in challenging projects with complex , misunderstood or ambiguous requirements. They talk about how to get everyone on a project to that sweet spot, where there is a shared understanding of the requirements.

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Conceptual Diagram

Dynamics 365 Customer Service helps you serve your customers with the right tools to resolve cases faster and increase customer satisfaction. Dynamics 365 Customer Service helps manage caseloads, generate service-related activities, and proactively help agents find the best resolution to a customer’s problem. Dynamics 365 Customer Service also provides complete case management solutions to improve …

Stakeholder Mapping for your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform project

When a senior manager of the company you work for pulls you aside to explicitly emphasize how important it is to build a relationship with a specific client, you know to take it seriously. I had just started on a new project to implement Dynamics 365 for an organization. The Product Owner had never implemented …