Microsoft Innovation Podcast Maker Experience, ALM for Canvas Apps and the Power Management Framework with Ryan Cunningham
Feb 25, 2019
54:04
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/71
- Personal 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
RESOURCES
- CDS (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/
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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith