A great list of articles and blog posts this week, enjoy.
Quotes
Some men learn all they know from books; others from life. both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice.
It’s the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove a head, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it.
George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action. The guiding policy specifies the approach to dealing with the obstacles called out in the diagnosis. It is like a signpost, marking the direction forward but not defining the details of the trip. Coherent actions are feasible coordinated policies, resource commitments, and actions designed to carry out the guiding policy.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters by Richard Rumelt.
To get an overview of the book read A primer on strategy from the excellent Farnam Street blog
Article of the week
CRM Chart guy says Funnel Charts Suck and You Shouldn’t Use Them.
If you have tried to wrestle, persuade, force, shout at, plead, or trick the charts in Microsoft Dynamics to show something useful, you will realise it’s a difficult job.
For this reason you have to admire the awesome blog posts from CRM chart guy
Best of the Rest
CRM 2015 – The benefits of Access Teams
Understand the benefits of Access teams and start using them
A free customizable Editable Grid for Dynamics CRM 2013/2015!
A free editable grid
CRM 2015/2013 – All you need to know about Database Encryption
Database encryption can cause problems if you restore a backup of a CRM database because the encryption won’t work. This article will help you understand what is encrypted and how to add the encryption key
Your Interaction Network in Dynamics CRM
Great post from CRM MVP Jukka explaining Activity Party and how data interacting with you is held and can be displayed in CRM
Meet the 7 major improvements of the new MS Dynamics CRM 2016
The highlights of CRM 2016, it’s coming soon
Microsoft Cloud Certification could allow complex CRM solutions to go online
There’s a different choice between on-line or on-premise
Using Full-Text Search to improve Dynamics CRM search experience
Shows how you can search full text in CRM
Querying with no table lock
FetchXML has no table lock, who knew
CRM MVP Daniel Cai shows you how to get data into CRM faster
Great Slidedeck showing you how to import data in CRM
How to find the number of users connected to a SQL Server database
An SQL query to tell you how many users are connected to your CRM database
CRM 2011/2013 – Understanding and adding the deployment administrator role
Do you understand the Deployment Admin roleChanging a Custom Entity Icon in Dynamics CRM
whitepaper – Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Four Acquisitions To Make Dynamics CRM Awesome
Leon Tribe informs Microsoft of the next businesses they should buy, Listen up Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics CRM not working? check these common causes
If Microsoft Dynamics CRM on premise has stopped working, check out these common causes
Bulk Delete
Answers to common bulk delete questions
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.com: Sandbox to Production Revisited
Comparing the sandboxes of CRM and Saleforce
Upgrading CRM: How to Move from a Data-driven CRM to a Process-driven CRM
Do you need to change your thinking and processes when moving to from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013/2015
CRM Performance: Nothing is Gained by Running
Why rushed projects/code doesn’t save time and reduces quality
Running faster doesn’t always get you there quicker.
Eight ways to ensure the failure of a CRM project management (Part 1)
13 signs your CRM project is doomed
If you’re having CRM problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but my CRM Project ain’t one.
Programming
Moore’s Law Turns 50
Coding by the Book: The 7 Books Every Software Developer Should Read
SQL Server 2016: Everything built-in
Please, don’t commit commented out code
Why coding skills are not enough for a developer to get hired
Other
What Book has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?
First, interact
The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning? Part 2
A Primer on Strategy
Previous top picks
Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 13th October
Useful Hosk Links
Hosk list Of CRM 2013 Tools
A list and review of CRM 2013 tools, this will probably work in CRM 2015 as well
Hosk’s CRM Developer Articles
A collection of my favourite CRM Developer articles I have written
MB2-703 – CRM 2013 Customization and Configuration Certification Information
All the CRM 2013 content to help you pass the exam
HoskWisdom – Hosk Developer Quotes
Words of Wisdom from the Hosk. I have written over 900 articles, surely I should have said a few memorable things
Filed under: CRM 2011, CRM 2013, CRM 2015, Hosk’s Top CRM articles of the week
