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In Scrum Dynamics episode 23, supported by Maplytics by Inogic, Neil Benson is joined by co-host Dermot Ryan to discussing when Microsoft Dynamics customers should consider hiring a scrum master or agile coach to their project.

This episode is brought to you by Kingswaysoft and mscrm-addons.com.

In today's personal productivity episode, Joel Lindstrom and Matthew C. Anderson discuss lifelong learning, and why you should be self-taught.

Joel's five tips for learning a subject:

1. Read a variety of types of literature 2. Make connections 3. Read books that are 5-10+ years old 4. Make a list (maybe) 5. Set a deadline

Matthew talks about building a "fudge factor" into estimation and scheduling for both professional and personal tasks, and we end the podcast with a discussion about paper towel productivity.

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Today On XrmToolCast, brought you by Mapltyics by Inogic, Daryl and Jonas talk to fellow MVP Jason Lattimer, diving into his background and his wildly successful RESTBuilder tool.

On today's episode (sponsored by D365UG/CRMUG), Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss date fields in the Common Data Service for Apps and the considerations for PowerApps and Dynamics 365 configuration.

Discussed on the show

• The default behavior for new fields
• Date field options
• Time Zone offset, UTC date and time
• Time in date-only fields
• Matthew's first mistake with date fields
• Time zone and Canvas vs. Model PowerApps
• Calculated fields and "date math"
• Looking at the wider Power platform (Flow, Power BI)
• Grey areas for date field type in your data model (one of us says "willy nilly")
• Fun facts

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In Scrum Dynamics episode 22, Neil Benson provides his top 10 antipatterns that can plague your Scrum events in Dynamics 365 project.

An antipattern is anything that looked like a good idea at the time, but with hindsight was a terrible idea. Like acquiring MarketingPilot.

In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Stephan Smith discusses architecture patterns for building Dynamics 365 business systems. As we endeavor to build enterprise scale systems, we must not only consider how it will perform but how easy will it be to integrate with, upgrade or even migrate to the cloud. System architecture design is the gift that keeps on giving to customers and future project teams as it is the underlying basis for which all system functionality depends.

In today's episode (brought to you by D365UG/CRMUG), Nick and Colin take a deep dive into the portals announcements in the Business Applications Platform/D365 April '19 release notes.

• Portals get their seat at the table
• CDS portals
• Enhanced portal diagnostics
• Maintenance mode
• Submitting ideas for portal enhancements
• PowerBI embedded in portals
• Marketing and event portals
• Integration with content management systems

Links:

• April 19 release notes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/
• Marketing Portals: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/developer/event-management-web-application
• Colin's blog: http://colinvermander.com/
• Colin on Twitter: @koolin_
• Nick's blog:https://readyxrmblog.wordpress.com/author/nickdoelman/
• Nick on Twitter: @readyxrm

In today's episode (brought to you by D365UG/CRMUG), Nick and Colin take a deep dive into the portals announcements in the Business Applications Platform/D365 April '19 release notes.

Portals get their seat at the table

CDS portals

Enhanced portal diagnostics

Maintenance mode

Submitting ideas for portal enhancements

PowerBI embedded in portals

Marketing and event portals

Integration with content management systems

It's part 2 of our review of the release notes for Microsoft Business Applications April '19 release. In this episode we dig into what's new for Power Apps, Flow, CDS, and Power BI.

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic.

Show notes:

• AI for sales enhancements
• Phone call analysis
• Relationship assistant in teams
• Use Ai for Customer Service with ServiceNow, ZenDesk, or SalesForce
• Mixed reality
• PowerApps enhancements
  • Responsive layout
  • App license requirements presented to makers
  • App usage reporting
  • Server-side synchronization for CDS
  • Power Apps Control Framework
  • Reusable canvas apps components
  • Views in canvas apps
  • Easier login for D365 mobile app
  • Unified interface for everybody
  • The return of offline
  • Model-driven apps in teams
• Flow enhancements
  • Extracting from HTML and PDF
  • Integration with Microsoft learn
  • Calling actions with flow
  • Batch processes
  • Change sets
• PowerBI support for LinkedIn Sales Navigator
• CDM/CDS enhancements

Tool recommendation:

• typora.io

This episode of ProdCast is brought to you by mscrm-addons.com.

Sometimes input from others is necessary before you can complete a task, and if those people aren't responsive, it can become a roadblock to your productivity. In today's episode, we discuss how you can get more control over these tasks by strategically predefining outcomes. Make the default action the result you want.

Joel shares an Outlook productivity tip about quickly archiving emails, and we also discuss habit stacking--grouping things you have to do with things you like to do to motivate yourself to do the things that you need (but don't want) to do.