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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You’ll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Learning about project implementation methodologies and tools

In this section, you will learn about programs and projects, project methodologies, project effort estimation, and tools used for Power Platform implementation projects as well as about the main project documentation types.

There is a multitude of different project management methodologies and many of them are not suitable for IT projects, so we will clearly focus on the typical and most frequently used Power Platform-related methodologies.

Understanding programs and projects

It is important to understand the terms program and project and be able to distinguish between them in the context of Power Platform implementation:

  • A project is a temporary undertaking to create a product, service, or result.
  • A program is a group of related and mutually coordinated projects to achieve a benefit that could not be achieved if they were not coordinated.

In the realm of Power Platform implementations, it is...