Listen "Maker Experience, ALM for Canvas Apps and the Power Management Framework with Ryan Cunningham"
Episode Synopsis
FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/71Personal information and what Ryan does outside of his Microsoft day job Role in Microsoft as a Group Program Manager Working with the core CDS platform team How a massive endorsement translates to business, engineering, design, and vision in the context of the GPM for PowerApps role How he keeps the business very business-focused Questions from customers in this type of engagement, especially around UX Balancing the request coming from the market and what the team can show Managing patents and controlling a limited view of who gets know about what they’re going to patent Routine in preparing to go on stage before a presentation Ryan’s path into the business applications team Thoughts on the switch from CDS 1 to the underlying code base of what is Dynamics Unifying of Canvas Apps and model-driven apps The point at which Office 365 move into the Dynamics suite Thoughts on the admin experience over the maker experience and how it’s playing out Thoughts on the concern for the ALM story for Canvas Apps Thoughts on PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) Opportunities for ISVS and advice for startups wanting to consider Power Platform RESOURCESCDS (previous version) – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-service/entity-reference/introduction Upgrade to CDS for Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-service/upgradecds/introduction-upgrade-cds Improve ALM for Canvas Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/powerapps/improve-alm-for-canvas-app-with-solutions PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) on Azure – https://pivotal.io/partners/microsoft Enrich your model-driven forms with embedded canvas apps (Public preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/enrich-your-model-driven-forms-with-embedded-canvas-apps-public-preview/ Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith
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