Matt Traxinger
ArcherPoint by Cherry Bekaert, Leader of Developer Experience and Intelligent Systems
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Matt Traxinger is a seasoned Business Central architect, consultant, and developer enablement leader with more than two decades of experience building high-quality ERP solutions. He specializes in transforming development teams through modern DevOps practices, AI-first tooling, and frictionless Developer Experience (DevEx). Matt is widely recognized for his practical, no-nonsense approach to quality, automation, and process design—shaped by early, unforgettable lessons in breaking things, fixing them, and building systems that prevent others from doing the same.
As the leader driving DevOps modernization across hundreds of Business Central projects, Matt designs scalable release pipelines, telemetry-driven insights, and AI-assisted workflows that allow teams to deliver faster, safer, and more predictably. He also plays a key role in architecting multi-tenant environments, improving upgrade reliability, and bringing enterprise-grade engineering discipline to the BC ecosystem.
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Why Your Designs Make Users Cry (And How to Fix Them)
Business Central implementers make hundreds of design decisions every week - layouts, captions, workflows, validations, navigation paths - and most of those choices happen without formal UX training. The result? Even experienced users get confused, workflows break down, errors multiply, and support tickets pile up. It’s not that users “don’t get it.” It’s that the design unintentionally violates how humans understand and interact with systems.
In this example-driven session, we’ll explore the most common usability pitfalls in Business Central customizations and why they cause so much frustration. We’ll borrow a few core principles from Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things - discoverability, signifiers, feedback, constraints, and error prevention - and use them to explain why certain designs cause users to hesitate, make mistakes, or feel overwhelmed.
We’ll show simple, practical fixes you can apply immediately: clearer action naming, better grouping, early validation patterns, more helpful error messages, smarter defaults, and small UI adjustments that dramatically reduce cognitive load. Through real-world BC examples (and a few funny ones), you’ll see how minor changes in design can create major improvements in user confidence and satisfaction.
If you build pages, configure workflows, or design extensions for Business Central, this session will help you stop accidental frustration - and start creating solutions that feel natural, intuitive, and frustration-free.
The Happy Hour Conversation, On Stage: Dev Leadership
You know the conversation. It happens when the name badges come off and the real talk starts, between sessions in the hallway, or in a Teams message with the one person you know who leads a dev team like yours. How do you build a culture of code quality without slowing everything down? How do you justify investing in technical debt when every hour is billable? How do you lead a team of developers through the AI shift when you're still figuring it out yourself?
These are the questions dev leaders carry around, and they rarely get a stage.
This panel skips the slides and puts that happy hour conversation in front of a microphone. A group of development practice leaders from across the BC ecosystem will take your questions, share what's working, admit what isn't, and disagree with each other along the way. Just the honest conversation about leading developers that you've been wanting to have.
Whether you lead a dev team today or you're working toward it, bring your hardest questions. We'll bring ours.
Vibe-Driven Development: Why Your Best Developers Will Hate This (And Why It Works Anyway)
When clients call with "we need something that tracks X by next week," most developers cringe. But what if that ambiguity could become your competitive advantage? Partners who rapidly translate business problems into working solutions win more deals and keep clients happier.
Most senior developers hate this idea. No spec? No backlog grooming? But we already work this way - vague requests, half-baked ideas, last-minute "can-you-just" tasks are real life. Vibe-Driven Development embraces that reality, showing how AI turns ambiguity into competitive advantage.
We'll take a loosely defined business need and use GitHub Copilot to shape it into a full Business Central solution, from design and development through documentation, testing, and delivery.
You'll learn how to:
• Break down fuzzy requests using AI prompts
• Use AI for architecture and naming decisions
• Generate AL scaffolding, test codeunits, and release notes
• Identify critical review points where human expertise must override AI, particularly around Business Central's posting frameworks, permission design, and integration patterns
This isn't about replacing your expertise, it's about accelerating delivery when you're handed a problem and a deadline. Whether skeptical or curious, you'll leave with a new perspective on how AI supports the way you already work while maintaining quality standards.
Expanding Business Central Page Scripts Beyond QA
Page Scripting in Business Central gives us a powerful way to simulate user behavior, but its YAML output is more than just a test file. Whether you're already using Page Scripts for testing or just getting started, discover how these YAML files can become structured automation assets you can reuse across testing, support, DevOps, documentation, and design.
You'll learn how to:
• Transform "customer can't process orders" support tickets into repeatable Page Scripts that validate entire workflows—eliminating "works on my machine" scenarios
• Generate design specs, user guides, and test case documentation from real user flows
• Use Page Scripts in CI/CD pipelines for smoke testing and regression
Discover the workflow patterns and tooling integrations that can dramatically reduce support reproduction time and streamline cross-team workflows. Whether you're building a DevOps pipeline, scaling support, or writing functional specs, Page Scripts give you a new way to capture and reuse the truth of what users actually do.
Automate with Ease: Leveraging Business Central 'Business Events' in Power Platform
This session explores real-time integration, enabling proactive decision-making and enhancing operational efficiency.
Learn how to set up and configure business events to trigger actions across Power Platform, creating a unified, responsive ecosystem that reduces manual tasks and promotes seamless data flow between systems.
Mastering Business Central Page Scripting: The Key to Streamlined Testing
Are you looking to enhance your Business Central testing strategy? Page Scripting is a new and powerful feature that enables you to simulate user interactions, automate tests, and ensure consistent results across different scenarios. This session will show you how to create and execute scripts effectively to test Business Central pages, uncover hidden bugs, and optimize workflows.
We’ll explore real-world use cases, from validating customizations to verifying standard features. You’ll leave with actionable insights, techniques you can apply immediately, and the confidence to elevate your testing game. Whether you’re a seasoned Business Central user or just getting started, this session equips you with practical tools to ensure your Business Central applications are robust and reliable.
Lean and Mean: Eliminating Waste in Your Development Workflow
In the often-chaotic world of software development, waste can quietly undermine productivity, lead to unnecessary delays, and negatively impact both the quality of the final product and the morale of development teams. Drawing inspiration from Lean manufacturing principles, this session will explore the 7 key wastes commonly encountered in software development. These include partially done work, unnecessary features, knowledge gaps, task hand-offs, delays, task switching, and defects. Each of these wastes can create friction in the development process, slowing down teams and creating bottlenecks.
By examining each of these wastes, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how they show up in real-world workflows, and, more importantly, how to reduce or eliminate them. This session will provide actionable strategies for streamlining workflows, prioritizing work effectively, minimizing distractions, and improving the quality of code produced. Whether you’re working alone or as part of a larger team, this session will equip you with the tools to identify and tackle waste head-on, making your development processes leaner, meaner, and more efficient.
Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of how to recognize these inefficiencies in their own projects and practical steps they can take to create a more productive, focused, and smooth development workflow.
Defensive Programming: Writing Code That Fights Back
What happens when your code encounters the unexpected? Defensive Programming is the practice of anticipating failure, guarding against mistakes, and building applications that stay reliable under pressure. In this session, we’ll explore how to write code that not only works when conditions are ideal but also thrives when things go wrong.
From managing edge cases to validating inputs and preventing silent failures, we’ll cover actionable techniques for making your code more resilient. Through relatable examples and practical strategies, you'll gain a toolbox to protect against unpredictable errors, prevent bugs from snowballing into bigger issues, and write code that’s easier to test, debug, and maintain.
Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience, this session will give you the mindset and methods to build bulletproof systems.
Beyond Job Queues: Modernizing Automation in Business Central
Once upon a time we had application servers, forms, and timers. Nearly two decades ago we moved to the job queue and it, or various iterations of it, has been the stalwart of automating routine tasks in NAV and Business Central ever since. It’s difficult to imagine doing it any other way.
The job queue is not without its problems, though. This is especially true in high transaction, high automation SaaS environments where we have less control and less visibility into what is going on behind the scenes. Jobs don’t always start on time. Scaling can cause jobs to stop altogether for hours at a time. Platform hotfixes can completely change performance without you knowing about them ahead of time. The wrong jobs take priority. When companies get big enough to need to process tens of thousands of tasks per hour, and not impact other users in the system, we can’t always count on the job queue to deliver.
In this session you’ll learn how to leverage various timer and event driven Azure components, in combination with Business Central API calls, to achieve a more consistent automation experience.
Key topics include:
• An overview of the traditional job queue and its limitations in modern SaaS environments.
• Introduction to Azure components (such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid) that can replace or augment the job queue.
• Best practices for integrating Business Central API calls with Azure services to achieve seamless automation.
• Strategies for monitoring, scaling, and optimizing automated tasks to ensure high performance and reliability.
DynamicsCon 2026 Sessionize Event Upcoming
Directions North America 2026 Sessionize Event
Directions EMEA 2025 Sessionize Event
DynamicsCon 2025 Sessionize Event
Directions North America 2025 Sessionize Event
Summit NA Roadshow - Dallas Sessionize Event
Community Summit NA
Accelerating AL Code Excellence
Ask the Experts - Development and Architecture
Days of Knowledge Americas 2024 Sessionize Event
Community Summit NA
Avoiding Business Central Software Decay by Building SOLID Solutions
Community Summit NA
Connect Your Apps the No Code Way
How to Do a Code Review
In Case of Fire - Git Commit, Git Push
DynamicsCon
Automated Testing with Business Central
Community Summit NA
Defensive Programming
Software Evolution - Refactoring
Reporting Hands on Lab
User Group Focus
Get on the Train - Take Control of Your Development Pipeline
Community Summit NA
Transforming C/AL to AL
Approval Workflow Pricing Changes
NAVUG Focus
Transforming C/AL Code for VS Code
NAVUG Focus
Convergence 2014
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