Introduction: A techie from MSFT

Archived Forums Introductions
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Hi all

I am Jens Møller-Pedersen, working for Microsoft at the MDCC in Vedbæk. I am a Dev Lead on the Dynamics Nav “6.0” client.

I like following the discussions on the community forums, but so far I haven’t been posting any replies. The main reason for this is that I am not that familiar with the Nav application yet, coming from an Ax / MBF background. However, if you have questions about the new client I might be able to help you out.

Thanks

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Hi Jens,

Thank you for your introduction and welcome to the user group. We happy to see you here and are looking forward to your input. I have added the Microsoft Employee role to your profile, so it’s easy to see that you come from Microsoft (according to our agreement with Ilana.

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Thanks Erik.

I hope that you will enjoy Convergence - I might see you there tomorrow.

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I’m glad to know that Microsoft is contributing more in community.

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Question.

How can you be a development lead on the Navision 6.0 if you’re not familiar with Navision? Is MSFT intentionally doing this so they can have someone to “think outside of the box”?

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Hi Jens,

welcome to The Dynamics User Group, its great to have Microsoft people active here. It will be great to meet up with you at convergence.

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Alex has a good point:

I guess the reason is that I’m mainly dealing with the technical implementation of showing pages etc. to the user - and not so much about what is written in A/L code. So it is probably more fair to say that I am not that familiar with the Nav application. So I do not know about the details on item costing etc.- but I know how the client interacts with A/L triggers etc. But of course I know about the scenarios we are trying to solve in the Nav client. And it should also be noted that the term dev lead just means that I have a development team. I am not the only dev lead - there is definitely a dev lead knowing the application details that I am not familiar with.

Another reason why I don’t need deep knowledge of the application is that the client is designed to allow it to run on different backends - so Nav is hopefully only the first use of the client code.

Regarding MSFT intentionally moving people around - I don’t really know. I just find it interesting working with Nav having been part of the Ax kernel group earlier - and yes, I do think it is an advantage to bring in people with differing backgrounds.