Estimating Business Apps

Whether you’re an internal developer working for a Microsoft customer or a consultant working for a Microsoft partner: every Power Platform or Dynamics 365 project you have ever worked on has been underestimated. Because no one wins overestimated projects... Mentioned in this episode: Join Estimating Business Apps - Pro plan for $50 My Estimating Business Apps course will help you up level up your...

Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 5. This is the final episode in the Estimating Business Apps podcast mini-series. In this episode, I introduce the final section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me as I answer 20 frequently asked questions about how my teams estimate Power Platform and Dynamics 365 applications: How can we explain story points to stakeholders? What are the a...

Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 4. In this episode, I introduce the fourth section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn how to: Scale up from estimating requirements to estimating complex business applications. Determine your team's initial velocity even if you've never worked together before. Derive the cost of your project based on the run rate of your team. Visua...

Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 3. In this episode, I introduce the third section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn how to: Slice user stories into an appropriate size for estimation. Agree a standard story against the relative size of other stories can be estimated. Use affinity estimation to quickly estimate a large set of stories Use planning poker to estimate...

Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 2. In this episode, I introduce the second section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn how: Estimating a requirement is like estimating a running trail. Effort and the three other factors need to be included in your estimate. Your team can choose an estimation scale for your business apps projects. The Estimating Business Apps is a c...

Welcome to Estimating Business Apps episode 1. In this episode, I introduce the first section of the Estimating Business Apps course. Join me to learn why: Stakeholders deserve accurate estimates. Estimates are notoriously inaccurate. Estimating in units of time doesn't work. Estimating in t-shirts doesn't work either. Estimates are different from forecasts and commitments. The Estimating Business...

G'day, I'm Neil Benson. In this limited-edition podcast series, I'd love to teach you how to quickly, accurately and confidently estimate how long it’ll take and how much it’ll cost to build your Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 business applications. You'll be able to persuade your stakeholders to approve your proposals and win more projects. I'm a 14x Microsoft...