System performance is a critical non-functional requirement in any business application, yet we seldom take it into account until after there’s a problem. The worst thing that can happen after investing months in developing a system is for it to… Read More ›
Microsoft Teams hails as one of the more recent members of the Microsoft platform roster. After the announcement of the platform’s pending release in late 2016, Team’s ironically received early fan fair from its natural competitor Slack who decided to… Read More ›
I’ve found over the years that in every company I’ve worked I tended to rise to be one of the best if not the best. Personally, I always wanted to be the best, and it meant something to me to… Read More ›
In the release of Dynamics CRM 2011, Microsoft refreshed the UI with a fresh new look and created a new design experience for system customizers. This was an improvement over the 4.0 design experience. Since then we’ve all been wondering… Read More ›
I recently watched the Dynamics 365 2018 Spring Launch event and wanted to provide some thoughts and impressions. I remember in the not too distant past when Dynamics was a fringe platform. At the internal Microsoft events formally known as TechReady… Read More ›
There is a persistent pattern of confusion around the concept of team-based security. When it comes to security roles, we’ve always been told that security is effectively a culmination of inherited rights. Users may obtain these rights or privileges from… Read More ›
Dynamics attachments are an important feature that allows users to add contextually relevant documents to business data within the system. The challenge is this feature as implemented has consequences we should be aware of as we make longer term design decisions for our systems.
Technical debt is one of those things that development teams are aware of but typically put on the back burner to address later. If the project manager and business stakeholders have been informed of the debt it is usually too… Read More ›
It never fails. Your company starts a new software project and there’s a laundry list of functionality the business wants to see. There are more features than time, money and resources available, but IT folds under pressure and says yes… Read More ›
If you’ve ever seen a committee in action, you may know that they tend to not get things done very quickly if at all. The United States Congress is a great example of a committee that is very successful at… Read More ›
FetchXML is a style of late bound queries that provides a similar experience to using SQL in an application. The convenience of it lends itself to being used in your code base. Developers will often copy and past FetchXML into their methods from blog posts online or even examples out of the Dynamics CRM SDK. The challenge is that the convenience of FetchXML comes at a cost that is not only insidious, but I consider a form of hidden technical debt in Dynamics code bases.