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There has been quite a bit of chatter in the channel lately about this new "Citizen Developer" role that Microsoft is attempting to better support. Not surprisingly, many "real" developers have been none to pleased with the idea. I thought I would try and unpack this sticky-wicket a little bit. New Term for Existing Crowd I'm not sure if Microsoft coined the term "Citizen Developer" or not, but th...

There are a lot of opinions floating around the Dynamics 365 channel today. Talk to any partner and they will say things like "If it were up to me, I would do this or that... but don't tell anybody I said that". Seems to me, if we don't tell anybody what we think, we should not be entitled to complain about any results! "Microsoft wouldn't listen to me" This is the most common response I get, when...

It should be news to no one that Microsoft's Business Solutions are exploding with new capabilities by the minute. An enormous amount of money and effort is being brought to bear to push the envelope, raise the bar, and then raise it again. The advancements have been nothing short of incredible, but one thing has not kept up with the pace... Trusting One thing that Microsoft has always been, is tr...

It was less than a year ago... I was asking Dynamics 365 leaders about the possibility of Dynamics 365 being offered as a "Naked" platform. The strategy, that has been successfully employed by Salesforce.com for years, did not seem like it was on Microsoft's radar. I was told "Never gonna happen". Fast-Forward to a month ago... It happened. Seems Like Yesterday It wouldn't be a post by me, if I di...

Steve wrote about CDS for Non-Techies recently, in this podcast, he reads that post to you.