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  • Working within the Power Platform – Power Virtual Agents

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    So, now we’ve focused on 3 of the 4 products that make up the Power Platform – Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps. Finally, we turn our focus on the newest member of the Power Platform – Power Virtual Agents. Power Virtual Agents are chat bots that are created to answer questions from your…

  • Working within the Power Platform – Power Automate

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    Power Automate is the new-ish name for a product that you may have heard of sometime back – Microsoft Flow. It was given a new name back in November of 2019 so that it was more obvious to users that it was part of the Power Platform, and, therefore, gets all of the integrations and…

  • Working within the Power Platform – Power Apps

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    The next product in the Power Platform suite is Power Apps. Power Apps is a “no-code” interface that works well for the non-technical people out there – yes, it works great for the technical people as well. To create a Power App yourself, you have to start at the Power Apps Home Page. Working in…

  • Working within the Power Platform – Power BI

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    Power BI – as has been told probably many times before – is a game-changer. Many people will tell you that Power BI is, quite simply, a visualization tool. Power BI is the analytics tool that can help your business move up to the next level. There are two distinctly different ways that you can…

  • Introducing the Microsoft Power Platform

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    So for the past few years, everyone has been talking about the latest “big sexy” from Microsoft – Power BI. But, have you heard about the restof the Power Platform? Somehow I doubt most of us had even thought there was anything beyond Power BI! In actuality, there are 4 unique parts to the Power…

  • More on SCRUM

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    One ceremony that I adore goes by many different names. In the past, it has been known as the Grooming session. Today, it is known as a “Backlog Refinement Session.” I actually like this name because it is more telling of what is done during the session. During the session, the team should meet and…

  • Things I’ve done on break

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    Yes, I now have an MBA!

  • Scrum Ceremonies, part 3

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    So, we have covered Retrospectives and the Daily Stand Ups in previous posts. Today we will actually go through the rest of the major ceremonies that a Scrum Master must deal with each and every sprint. Sprint Planning is simply a meeting where it is determined what will be worked on during the next sprint.…

  • Scrum Ceremonies, part 2

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    So, last time, we talked about Stand Up. There are so many other ceremonies that a good scrum master should be working through with the team. Let’s try to step thru some more of them, shall we? Possibly my favorite of the scrum ceremonies is the Retrospective, commonly referred to as the Retro. The Retro…

  • Windowing Functions Exercises

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    So, using the Lahman’s baseball database – found here – let’s go thru some practice exercises to try out your new windowing functions skills: Find the first year that each park was played in Show the rank with ties (both ways) of the games started in 1983 for each league for all players Place the…