Jamie Hirst
Techno-Functional Consultant and Unicorn Wrangler
Stockport, United Kingdom
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Jamie comes from an operational background within public services before moving over to technology. Now with almost a decade of experience with Dynamics and Power Platform under his belt, he identifies hidden talent that exists within his clients' organisations to ensure they are properly supported and nurtured so that both the organisation and the individual benefit .
More recently, as he's taken on more management and leadership roles, he has been involved with actively building in house teams to enable organisations to become more self sufficient: one of his recent clients started with a single Power Platform developer, by the end of his year long engagement Jamie had successfully expanded the team to ten people of complementary skill sets and varying skill levels.
His lofty aim is to build enough talent that he becomes redundant as a freelancer.
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The problem with pipelines - they aren't a silver bullet
DevOps Pipelines are seen as an ultimate goal by many, some see them as a necessary part of any project. However, often the decision-making process to go with pipelines is flawed, not taking account of the prerequisites needed to use them successfully; sometimes, the decision is made simply for the wrong reason.
In the session, Jamie will discuss some of the major challenges faced when using pipelines, and cover some of the prerequisites needed to ensure your organisation is in a good position to use them.
Yes, we are looking at ALM practices, but this session will link them directly to the aspirations of organisations to use pipelines.
Developing Your Own Good Practice
Ask 100 Power Platform specialists what good looks like, you will get 200 answers.
Best practice is, by definition, always true. That means its either quite generic, leaving lots of room for interpretation, or for very specific scenarios. For everything in between, it often doesn't matter which approach an organisation takes, but it is important for everyone within that organisation to be doing the same thing. This is where defining your own good practice comes in to play.
This session looks at how to develop your own good practice, including definitions, decision making and documenting, to help you and your partners get the most out of the technology
Finding Unicorns: Building your Power Platform Team
Power Platform (and Dynamics 365) resource is hard to come by. Good Power Platform resource even harder still.
As a technology, Power Platform breaks the mould, often at the forefront of digital transformation, yet our approach to recruitment and developing talent seems to have hardly changed in a decade.
This session will look at how to update your approaches, identifying good practices and flag up some common hurdles when trying to build your Power Platform team. Some of the points we will consider include:
What role do you need?
Who do you need to do that role?
Have you got the right skill and skill level mix?
How attractive are you?
How easy do you make it?
Anyone who has an interest in growing and developing their team will find this session useful.
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