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Approach for Merging Dynamics CRM Solutions with DevOps implementations.

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

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How do I merge solutions in CRM? How do I perform feature-based deployment in Dynamics CRM? These are a few frequently asked questions when I am presenting DevOps for CRM talks or asked about my post on “Continuous Integration, Deployment and Test Automation for Dynamics CRM.

Monitoring & Alerting – Operations in the Cloud

May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 05/26/20

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Application Insights monitors the availability, performance, and usage of your web applications. It provides you with deep insights into your application's operations and diagnose errors without waiting for a user to report them. It gives you the ability to continuously improve performance and usability.

Azure DevOps setting up Repository permissions

May 15, 2020 May 15, 2020 05/15/20

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As your organization grows, you will start to have many repositories inside of your Azure DevOps projects. Most organizations allow developers to browse and contribute to any repository, and put policies on pull requests for specific branches to protect them.

Using Azure DevOps Pipelines with Redgate to Automate Oracle Database Deployments

May 14, 2020 May 14, 2020 05/14/20

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In this post, I will cover a basic end to end-to-end example of taking a local Oracle database, setting up a project in a Git repository and using a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to take your database changes from code through to production.

Introduction to CMMI Development for Developers

May 8, 2020 May 8, 2020 05/8/20

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CMMI may seem like overkill, but even on small projects, the knowledge captured by following the process shortens the cycle the longer you are away from the project. Not to mention if you’ve never worked on the project before.

3 Tips for Adding Security to CI/CD Pipelines

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20

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When working with customers that are just starting their journey of converting to CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps, the initial focus is making sure their current manual build and release processes are automated. Can our pipeline do more? How do we build security steps into the process?

Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Software Development Project Management, I Learned from World of Warcraft

May 1, 2020 May 1, 2020 05/1/20

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As more companies are pursuing their DevOps journey and looking at the union of People, Process, and Products to enable continuous delivery of value to end users, it is important to realize that there is a reason People come first in that list.

From a Storm to Order – Part I

April 29, 2020 Apr 29, 2020 04/29/20

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The biggest challenge that we face as developers is understanding the problem that we're trying to solve, understanding the business logic that we're trying to implement inside of our code. In my opinion, this challenge has been one of the most significant issues we deal with as software designers and developers.

Azure DevOps and Continuous Learning

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20

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Application Development Manager Kelly Wilson demonstrates using Azure DevOps to transform certification knowledge to practitioner knowledge. Introduction Microsoft offers a vast array of certifications designed to increase your knowledge and skills in a wide variety of platforms and architectures, from Azure to Dynamics 365 to the ...

The Journey to a DevOps Culture

April 25, 2020 Apr 25, 2020 04/25/20

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Sharing best practices across the enterprise becomes more important and reshaping organizational structure and transforming into modern Agile practices with a DevOps culture, while difficult, will lead to the faster delivery of stable high-quality applications with fewer bugs, less technical debt the ability to more rapidly deliver value.

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