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• Operations Support: The Feature Not On Your Product Roadmap

  By Stephan Smith on February 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Diffusion of Responsibility: Why Things Don’t Get Done on Software Projects and What to Do About It

  By Stephan Smith on February 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Dynamics 365 CRM: Why You Should Say No To FetchXML In Your Codebase

  By Stephan Smith on January 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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.

• Why Software Projects Aren’t Like Building Houses

  By Stephan Smith on January 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It never fails. On every project, someone eventually uses the house analogy for building software. On the surface, a house does have some similar concepts that can be attributed to software projects such as: A Foundation (Platform) A Front Yard… Read More ›

• Three forbidden words: “I don’t code” (Redux)

  By Stephan Smith on December 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  When it comes to project delivery there are certain things that team members can say that may not be conducive to success. In this article we specifically discuss when a business analyst infamously declares “I don’t code”.

• A Brief Explanation of Dynamics 365 Entity Ownership Performance Considerations

  By Stephan Smith on December 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Security in Dynamics 365 is kind of this mysterious topic. It’s not documented in any meaningful depth and what is known publicly comes more from observation than a comprehensive look at its physical implementation. The underlying orchestration is somewhat of… Read More ›

• Enterprise Technical Debt: The Lurking Cancer of Your Distributed Systems

  By Stephan Smith on November 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  What is Enterprise Technical Debt? When speaking of technical debt, we should define what we mean when we say the word. Technical debts are the things that make the maintenance, upgradability or integration of a system more difficult. The thing… Read More ›

• My Journey to Microsoft and Dynamics 365

  By Stephan Smith on November 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  My journey into the IT world began as a lowly college grad who thought he was a hot shot programmer that ultimately began to learn what he didn’t know. My mentors have guided me and shown me a path which… Read More ›

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