Preparing for the First Sprint: Design Thinking and Discovery with Hamish Sheild – YouTube

Hamish Sheild is a Microsoft MVP and Power Platform consultant specialising in applying Design Thinking practices to our apps and projects to make them more human-centred. Hamish and I discuss the different activities and artifacts we’ve experimented with before starting the delivery phase of our Power Platform and Dynamics 365 projects.

Join us as we discuss:
* Design thinking exercises and goal setting
* Inclusion of developers in the discovery phase
* Importance of day in the life sessions
* Exploration of design sprints
* Creating customer and user journey maps
* Utilizing user story maps for clarity
* The role of prototyping in projects
* Developing solution blueprints with Dynamics 365
* Size and refinement of initial product backlog
* Establishing environments
* Business process maps
* Crafting stakeholder maps for project success

*HAMISH SHEILD*
* *Hamish Sheild on LinkedIn* https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamishsheild/
* *AppRising* https://www.apprising.co.nz/
* *Designing Business Applications* https://www.apprising.co.nz/designing-business-applications

*RESOURCES*
* *Avion for user story mapping* https://www.avion.io/
* *StoriesOnBoard for user story mapping* https://storiesonboard.com/
* *Miro for visual collaboration* https://miro.com/

Keep experimenting 🧪

-Neil

*MY ONLINE COURSES*
🚀 *Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps* – learn the basics and benefits about adopting agile approach to building business applications https://customery.com/foundations
🏉 *Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps* – learn the Scrum framework, get certified, adopt proven practices for using Scrum to build agile business apps https://customery.com/scrum
📐 *Estimating Business Apps* – learn how to quickly, accurately and confidently answer the questions your stakeholders love to ask: “How long will it cost and how much will it cost?” https://customery.com/estimating

*MY PODCASTS*
🎧 *Amazing Applications* – interviews and solo episodes about building amazing, agile Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications https://amazingapps.show
🎧 *Practice Leading* – for aspiring and curious Microsoft partner leaders who want to learn the lessons of those that have successfully blazed the trail before and fellow emerging leaders on the same journey. https://practiceleading.com

*CONNECT WITH ME*
🌍 *Customery website* https://www.customery.com
🟦 *Neil on LinkedIn* https://linkedin.com/in/neilbenson
🟦 *LinkedIn* https://linkedin.com/company/customery

*G’DAY, I’M NEIL*
Welcome, I’m Neil Benson. I’ve been building Microsoft business applications since 2006, using Scrum since 2008, received Microsoft MVP awards since 2010 and been making my own pizza dough since 2011 🍕. Yum-oh!

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