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Integration testing – it's not a choice, it's a no-brainer! Seems like these days I'm all about integration testing. 📝🔍 Yeah, unit tests? They're alright but, man, do they fall apart when something...

No more Dynamics 365 Marketing. It merges with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to become a single AI solution. The fusion results in two apps within this offering: 1️⃣ Customer Insights – Data =>...

Dive into Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Wave 2 '23 plans - it's all about Copilot! Get the details:...

Scrum has become a cult, even a religion 🛐✝️🕌. If I dare hint that Scrum might be causing a bit of unproductivity, I'm smacked with "you're not doing it right" 🙅‍♂️. Apparently, I'm not strict...

Embracing the trend of going paperless? 📝➡️🗑️ Let's talk about frictionless too. A topic often ignored. 🚫🔥 Downloading a PDF that you need to fill it in and then upload it again... Yes, it's digital...

Strive for few dependencies Every package that you add to your code is yet another dependency to your project. This dependency is not for free. You take on the risk of the dependency. Do you know...

Start simple with Git. With feature branches on the main branch: GitHub Flow. But consider this 🤔: Why create a branch for a feature that can be built in one day? Is it a convention we mindlessly...

Price's law: 50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of employees. So: If you have 10 employees, 3 do 50% of the work. If you have 100 employees, 10 do 50% of the work. If you have...

Connections in Dynamics 365. Should we still use them? Connections are very flexible and could be an option for some use cases. But most of the time I don't recommend them. Why? The User eXperience...

Git's branching, a power and a menace. More branches? More chaos. The result - sluggish workflows, longer feedback loops, tiresome reviews, late deployments, complex merges. Following changes across...

Decoding Git Branching: Less is More! Easy and powerful - that's Git branching for me. I went on a journey with GitFlow branching strategy only to realize its complexity and pivoted to GitHub Flow....

The Magic of Marketing Automation. Are you tracking each customer interaction? 📝 Are you assessing predictable patterns and behaviors?📊 Or are you still relying on guesswork and intuitions? ❓...