Hourly billing is a trap for your growth. As you sharpen skills, you work faster. More speed means less hours, resulting in lesser income 💸. Fair? The better you are at your work, the lesser you...
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How can technology make sales and marketing teams more efficient?
How can technology make sales and marketing teams more efficient? As an expert on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform integration, I have noticed how important automation is. By harnessing the power of...
Safety thinking
Safety thinking It destroys a company. It destroys a government. Everything needs to be in a process. Everything needs to be approved. Everything needs to be accounted for. Having safety...
Discover the secret to successful remote team bonding!
Discover the secret to successful remote team bonding! It's not daily stand-up meetings. Picture this: starting our week with a light, conversational meeting, where we swap tales from the weekend...
❌ I removed AutoMapper…
❌ I removed AutoMapper... It was making my code more complex without reaping the benefits 🚫. Why? 🤔 Low no. of entities to map in my codebase. I was defining all field mappings anyhow because I like...
Stand-up meetings? A waste of time!
Stand-up meetings? A waste of time! Just to tell the PO what you did, are doing and are blocked by. Aren't there better ways? When communication in the team is good, teammates seek each other out in...
The one thing
The one thing Transform your efficiency with one powerful action - working smarter, not harder. Leverage existing tools, delegate tasks, and automate processes. Just like a photographer uses the...
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) I thought that SOP's would be useless for a solo entrepreneur. A SOP is a set of detailed step-by-step instructions that describe how to carry out any given...
Scrum Sprints are relics of yesteryears.
Scrum Sprints are relics of yesteryears. Two-week blocks? They don't function in the today's high-paced world. Continuous delivery is our reality now. A feature is ready to be deployed as soon as it...
MS Access is the original low-code / no-code tool.
MS Access is the original low-code / no-code tool. There I said it. It's not the flashiest, nor the newest. It doesn’t leverage AI or BI, and yes, it doesn't have a fancy cloud-based system. Yet...
Inbox Zero in Outlook?
Inbox Zero in Outlook? I try this using these features in Outlook: 🚩 Mark as Action Flag the email and Archive it. Now they are in your Todo list app. 📅 Respond with Meeting Is the Action a meeting...
Can we Automate approvals?
Can we Automate approvals? Has the approved has some secret knowledge? Ofcourse not! Usually the approvers checks a couple of sources to validate, like the financial records and external sources...

Remy van Duijkeren
Power Platform Architect
I help Dynamics 365 teams remove friction. Architecture, automation, and integrations that hold up.