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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
4.5 (2)
Book Image

Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

4.5 (2)
By: Hugo Herrera

Overview of this book

If you’ve been looking for a way to unlock the potential of Microsoft Power Platform and take your career as a solution architect to the next level, then look no further—this practical guide covers it all. Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect’s Handbook will equip you with everything you need to build flexible and cost-effective end-to-end solutions. Its comprehensive coverage ranges from best practices surrounding fit-gap analysis, leading design processes, and navigating existing systems to application lifecycle management with Microsoft Azure DevOps, security compliance monitoring, and third-party API integration. The book takes a hands-on approach by guiding you through a fictional case study throughout the book, allowing you to apply what you learn as you learn it. At the end of the handbook, you’ll discover a set of mock tests for you to embed your progress and prepare for PL-600 Microsoft certification. Whether you want to learn how to work with Power Platform or want to take your skills from the intermediate to advanced level, this book will help you achieve that and ensure that you’re able to add value to your organization as an expert solution architect.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
4
Part 2: Requirements Analysis, Solution Envisioning, and the Implementation Roadmap
10
Part 3: Architecting the Power Platform Solution
15
Part 4: The Build – Implementing Solid Power Platform Solutions
20
Part 5: Power Platform Solution Architect Certification Prep

Leveraging Azure DevOps for task management

Power Platform solution architects are often responsible for creating a base structure that holds requirements, tasks, and bugs. Azure DevOps includes four work item models:

  • Agile
  • CMMI
  • Scrum
  • Basic

You will typically work with product owners and business analysts to select the most appropriate model for the project. The project’s work items are created and distributed across the team for implementation. The following screenshot illustrates a set of work items for a Power Platform Portal and Model-Driven App backend solution:

Figure 14.1 – Example Azure DevOps task management backlog view

Azure DevOps’s work item processes allow the business to track and manage the work being carried out by the implementation teams and provide a compass and clear directives for each team member to work on.