Design
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Testing in isolation
An AL developer gets fired from his job for writing inefficient tests. With his LinkedIn profile proudly showing off his extensive testing experience, a car…
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Gentlemen’s agreement pattern, or handling the “Handled” pattern
I’ve delved deep into design patterns story with my last two blog posts, but I am far from over. The patterns I discussed are the ones we could use up until…
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10 reasons that make design absolutely necessary
Design is one of a kind. Other phases in Sure Step are understood and accepted as good and necessary. But design, do we really do that? Is it really necessary?…
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Setup-dependent requirements
While designing a custom functionality for a customer, there was an issue with posting groups: the way the custom functionality was designed would result in…
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A new book about Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Back in my time (now I feel old :)) if you wanted to read a book about Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you just couldn’t—there wasn’t any available. Today, if you want…
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What does a Dynamics consultant do: Part two
Yesterday, in my What does a Microsoft Dynamics consultant do? post I started explaining the job of an application consultant. As promised, today I’ll explain…
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What’s New In Sure Step: Functional Requirements Document
One of many improvements the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology has brought along is the revised purpose of the Functional Requirements…
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Read My Lips: Why?
Recently, a reader, commenting on my last post about Sure Step, pointed me to an article by Karl E. Wiegers “Read My Lips: No New Models!” I initially…
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Diagnostic Phase – a signpost for implementation
Each phase of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology is equally important in an implementation project. You could argue that analysis is the most important,…
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Architectures: Good, Bad and Ugly
Four months ago I attended a conference, where I had a chance to listen to Miha Kralj, an architect at Microsoft, talk about architectures. It was one of the…