Bojan Jovičić

Book Give-away: 'Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook'

2012-05-11T04:40:00Z

Book Give-away: Hold a chance to win free copy of the ' Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook ', just by commenting! For the contest we have two copies of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Development Cookbook to be given away to two lucky winners. How you can win: To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up with a comment below highlighting the reason "why you would like to win this book”. Duration of the contest & selection of winners: The contest is valid...(read more)

Speaking @ Microsoft WinDays 2012

2012-04-17T17:52:00Z

I am happy to be invited as presented at the biggest IT conference in Croatia - Microsoft WinDays . This will be my second time to present at this conference with a long tradition and splendid organization. I will be speaking about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 . Conference will be held in beautiful seaside town of Rovinj ....(read more)

Microsoft MVP Award - Dynamics AX for the third time

2012-04-06T04:40:00Z

At the beginning of this month (not an April Fools' Day joke) I was notified by Microsoft that I have been re-awarded as MVP ( M ost V aluable P rofessional) for Dynamics AX . Same as last year this is a great honour for me, especially with so few MVPs in Microsoft Dynamics AX field. In this area currently only 9 other people in the world share this award. You can see who are some of the new MVPs in CEE in this award cycle here . Congratulations to them and to all other re-awarded MVPs. I will...(read more)

Speaking @ FON in Microsoft Academic Tour "Пролеће@University '12"

2012-03-23T06:50:00Z

As one of the MVPs from our country , I have been invited to participate in Microsoft Academic Tour "Пролеће@University '12".Since I am deeply involved with academia, I loved the idea, and gladly accepted. I will be speaking about at Faculty of Organizational Sciences on 27.03.2012 about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 . There is a very nice overview of this event at Microsoft Academic website , and there has been a short announcement at the faculty's website ....(read more)

Microsoft Sinergija (Synergy) 2011

2011-10-08T09:01:00Z

This year I will be speaking at the annual Microsoft conference Sinergija 2011 (Sinergy) . As a CIO I am very proud that this year there are even two speakers from our company's IT team, beside myself. This is a significant acknowledgement both to the whole company as well as to my work in inspiring and motivating others to grow and learn, but also to join the community and share the knowledge (starting with 2009 when one of my associates held one track, to 2010 and this with two of my associates...(read more)

Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development

2011-06-04T06:07:00Z

I recently got my hands on hard copy of an excellent book of James Coplien - Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development . I was one of the reviewers for the book and have only the words of praise for it. This book brings the world of the architecture right in the context of agile. If you are using Lean, Scrum, XP or any of the other agile approaches in any of the roles in the process, this is the book for you. If focuses on the collaborative approach as one of the key success factors of the...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics AX - Remedy for slow Microsoft Excel import

2011-05-29T11:58:00Z

Recently I have been asked to help with solving an issue that involved reading data from Microsoft Excel (xls format) into Microsoft Dynamics AX . Original approach was used with default set of classes for Microsoft Excel (SysExcelApplication, SysExcelWorksheets, SysExcelWorksheet, etc.). The excel file in question was very small but with a rather large number of columns (~150). About 200 reads were made per row. What made us investigate this further was the fact that import was quite slow. After...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics & the Cloud

2011-05-10T19:03:00Z

Recently I have been asked by Software Advice (click here to visit their site) to share their interview about Microsoft Dynamics and the cloud with Marie Huwe, General Manager of Marketing for Microsoft Dynamics. The interview is 14 minutes long and presents Microsoft's roadmap for getting Microsoft Dynamics products in the cloud. You will hear about cloud partner profitability guide, cloud best practices, Dynamics marketplace and other cool tools that Microsoft is planning to apply. For me it...(read more)

Retail IT Summit 2011

2011-05-08T14:01:00Z

This is one of the conferences where I initally planned to attend because of industrial focus (retail), but I got invited by organizers to present instead. The event will bring together representatives of leading retail chains in Serbia, who will attend a one day event (10th May 2011) on which they will follow the presentations and exhibitions of the biggest international experts in retail area (you can get more info and detailed list of exibitors here ). I will be presenting about our way of working...(read more)

Decisions Spring 2011

2011-05-03T21:06:00Z

To my great pleasure, I have been asked again to speak about Agile Software Development and Microsoft Dynamics AX at one of the greatest virtual conferences on Microsoft Dynamics products: Decisions ! MSDynamicsWorld.com has been hosting these semiannual events for a couple of years now, and they are tremendous, free resources for learning and networking. This time it is spring version, and is again features 4 days dedicated to different Dynamics products, as shown on promo below: One interesting...(read more)

Good Old AI & Microsoft Dynamics AX

2011-04-20T05:26:00Z

This winter I had lot of opportunities to speak in academic circles. In a sense the presentation was similar to my lecture about Microsoft Dynamics AX to future managers at Belgrade University , but this time the audience was the group that I belong to and which focuses on AI ( A rtificial I ntelligence) application in academic and practical fields. Good Old AI is an internationally recognized network of award-winning researchers, engineers, and students working in the fields of applied artificial...(read more)

PKB - Agile Project Management

2011-04-18T05:40:00Z

Belgrade Chamber of Commerce is hosting a mini event about agile project management. The event is supported by PMI Serbia and our Agile Serbia user group. There will be a presentation of an resarch about software project approaches used in Serbia, we will hear what is happening with PMI and Agile and I will speak about Scrum. If you are interested to come (21 Apr 2011, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM) you can find more details at http://www.scrumalliance.org/events/334-pkb--agile-project-management ....(read more)

Microsoft WinDays 2011

2011-04-14T20:17:00Z

I was really delighted to be accepted to present at the biggest IT conference in Croatia - Microsoft WinDays . This is a conference with a long tradition and splendid organization. Being the first person to present about Microsoft Dynamics AX , I was really enthusiastic about it. The track showed key business advantages but also the technical resons with focus on agile. It went well and it was nice to see that Microsoft Dynamics AX is used in Croatia. Conference was held in beautiful seaside town...(read more)

Microsoft MVP Award - Dynamics AX for second time

2011-04-02T07:40:00Z

Yesterday I was notified by Microsoft that I have been re-awarded as MVP ( M ost V aluable P rofessional) for Dynamics AX . Same as last year this is a great honour for me, especially with so few MVPs in Microsoft Dynamics AX field. You can see who are some of the new MVPs in CEE in this award cycle here . Congratulations to them and to all other re-awarded MVPs. I will do my best to continue helping the community in future, as I did in past....(read more)

Microsoft Sinergija 2010 - Review

2011-01-10T06:03:00Z

Having been a regular lecturer in the past four years, I was really excited with this year’s Microsoft annual conference: Microsoft Sinergija . It is celebrating its 10th anniversary and was internationally oriented (both in speaker and audience sense), becoming one of the most important IT events in the region. Many side events were also organized, both of educational and entertainment type. There was a gala opening, a party and also a remarkable Influencer Summit featuring an outstanding...(read more)