Learn how to build amazing business apps your stakeholders will love 😍
You build amazing Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps for your stakeholders. I can help your team do it easily.
“The programs offered by Customery, that focus on Microsoft solutions, is a key commitment Microsoft is making to its partners. We need our partners to build the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications that Microsoft customers need now more than ever to drive efficiencies in their business, reach new customers and react to changing market pressures quickly.”
Philip Barlow
Director Partner Technology & CTO, Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft
MY #1 GOAL IS TO HELP YOU
Reduce project costs, shrink delivery times
and have a lot more fun building enterprise
Power Platform & Dynamics 365 applications.
You should be consistently winning more projects and delivering them fast.
If that’s not happening, my free courses can help.
CUSTOMERY ACADEMY
AGILE FOUNDATIONS FOR MICRFOSOFT BUSINESS APPS
Learn the benefits and basics of Agile for building business apps
My Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps course is ideal if you are interested in learning about agile software development and how business apps can benefit from an agile approach.
After taking this course, you'll understand the history of agile software development, and its values and principles. You'll also discover the Scrum framework and the benefits it can bring to your Dynamics 365 or Power Platform project.
SUCCESSFUL SCRUM FOR MICRFOSOFT BUSINESS APPS
Let's succeed with Scrum together
You are a part of a Scrum superhero squad. And you attend the daily scrums. You sit with your team during estimations. But you feel like an outsider. You don't speak the same language. Or maybe none of that is true. Maybe you are not doing Scrum yet. You're working in a traditional software development team. But your team is trying to build working software incrementally in a hybrid fashion.
My Successful Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course is specially designed courses to help you deliver using Scrum. It will help you:
Learn the basics of the Scrum framework so that you understand the fundamentals
Discover my proven practices and case studies from applying Scrum since 2009
Prepare for professional Scrum certification with Scrum.org
SCRUM.ORG PSM1 PRACTICE EXAM
Prepare for your Scrum professional certification exam with confidence
My PSM1 practice exam uses a bank of hundreds of questions similar to those you'll find in the Scrum.org PSM I certification exam. It uses the same exam engine, same timing, same level of difficulty, same passing score, same question topics and similar questions.
Once you pass my practice exam, you'll be able to sit the Scrum.org certification exam confidently knowing that you're in great company.
Over 200 Microsoft professionals have passed their professional Scrum certification exam on their first attempt after taking my practice exam.
ESTIMATING MICROSOFT BUSINESS APPS
Get your projects approved quickly with better estimates
Everyone wants their projects to be approved, yet so many project proposals and estimates end up in the trash can. Requirements specifications documents are boring. Endless set of features neatly compiled in an Excel spreadsheet of 'System shall' statements. Such a waste of time and money.
My Estimating Business Apps course helps you answer those two crucial questions your stakeholders are asking, How much is it going to cost? and How long is it going to take? quickly confidently and accurately.
Discover why estimating in time (hours or days) doesn't work, and learn a better way of estimating
Learn how to estimate simple requirements, complex features, entire applications or even a portfolio of apps
Be able to use different visualisations to confidently commuinicate your estimates to your stakeholders
FOLLOW THE SHOW
Amazing Apps
You are busy. But you want to get better at winning new customers and delivering amazing apps. You want to learn from peers and experts. You want to listen to the podcast or watch the videos.
Amazing Apps with Neil Benson is the only show that focuses on applying Agile and Scrum for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps.
On the show you'll learn about estimating projects and working with user stories, planning, and winning proposals through interviews, topical episodes, and case studies.
CUSTOMERY
G'DAY, i'M...
Neil Benson
👋 Hey there. I'm Neil, and I'm the founder of Customery.
I started building Microsoft business apps in 2006. Since then, I've lead Microsoft practices at Slalom in the US and KPMG Australia as well as my own businesses, Increase CRM and Superware.
I've been humbled and honoured to be a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional for Business Apps) every year since 2010 😎.
Today, I help Microsoft customers and partners slash costs, slice timelines, shrink risks, and have more fun building enterprise business applications that stakeholders love. I'm passionate about Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and addicted to Scrum (&🍕).
Our Amazing Students
Scrum hall of fame
Congratulations to all the Customery Academy students who have achieved their professional Scrum certification.
What our students say...
"What I've seen is there's more efficiency from the teams because things are more organised. There's a process in place. There's a structure that people look and say, 'Okay, yeah, this is how things are being done and this is better as compared to what we're doing before'. In terms of saving time, after going through the Scrum course, what I now have is a process to filter through the backlog, put those things into sprints on the backlog itself. So basically, it's saving us time in terms of where work items which are related."
Alexio Chandiwana
Solution Designer at D365 Consulting
"We've got a lot of really good feedback from our very first customer that we applied the framework to, to the point where we got a case study out of it for the Capgemini website. For me, the mental health thing has dramatically improved in terms of like what I think we've agreed upon versus what they've agreed they think that they've agreed upon. Being confident, using the framework, being on time and on budget gives us confidence. Every time that we know that we're going to use the framework, it'll actually happen. Just having the baseline, which is the Scrum for Business Applications course really helps us all stay aligned and true to that."
Andrew Rogers
Senior Manager, Dynamics 365 at Capgemini
"We have increased significantly increased the size of our development team. One of the reasons that we've been able to do that is because the business has had confidence in the framework that we've got to deliver, and that has seen us been given an increase in budget. The work aspect of my life is different after during the course because I definitely have a better framework in order to run the project that has been led to decrease in stress around overruns and risk management."
Louise Astorgano
Head of Technology at Evolv Super Audits
"The main difference that adopting Scrum has made to our business apps projects within Incremental Group is it adds structure to our teams. It allows our guys to work in iterative sprints, and it enables our project managers to keep a track of the work that's going on. Ultimately, then we're able to work together as a team towards a goal and deliver the best application, the best solution, to our customers."
Graeme Donnell
Senior Pre-Sales Consultant at Incremental Group
Testimonials
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Highly recommended
I highly recommend this course to anyone looking for a comprehensive learning experience in Scrum. I am truly grateful for Neil’s teachings, which has significantly influenced my success in passing the PSM1 exam on my first attempt.
Chigbo Okafor
Functional Consultant at Power Platform School
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A great learning experience
An excellent training course with many valuable real-world examples that help you understand Scrum beyond the Scrum guide; it also provides excellent advice on preparing for the exam. I totally recommend it.
Altagracia Lagares
Project Manager at Simplex Group
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Really good course
Well-paced and ordered, presented clearly and with good illustrations where required.
Still can’t place your accent!
Charlie Zerny
Project Manager at Xpedition
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Excellent and fun
Great course full of valuable information, very engaging and well presented.
And who doesn’t love LEGO!
Scott Beban
Senior Consultant at The Factor
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Engaging
Well-presented course with engaging content. I would recommend taking the test exams more than one though as you will inevitably find the questions will vary when it comes to the official exam quite a lot.
Marcus Tomlinson-Wilde
Principal Data Consultant at Xpedition
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Informative, engaging and practical
I took the Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course to learn how to apply Scrum frameworks to Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. I found the course very informative, engaging and practical. I enjoyed the course and learned a lot from it. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to implement Microsoft Business Applications using Scrum.
Christian Gosselin
Principal Consultant at powerplé consulting
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Influential and engaging course
This course is both thought provoking and credible. Neil provides real world examples of how his team estimates the most valued work required to deliver client projects – recommended.
Jon Burston
Microsoft Power Platform Architect at Rialto IT
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A very useful set of information
Coming back to consulting as a Power Platform senior technical lead consultant after three years as an end user was challenging since I had never estimated projects for clients. This course gave me more confidence to work and was very useful for my development.
Felipe Diniz
Senior Consultant at Avanade
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Best way to learn project estimation
Valuable and to the point explanation. I enjoyed the course.
Rita Patley
Senior Consultant at Telefonica Tech
