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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

Understanding the organization’s key success criteria

Having a clear definition of what constitutes a successful project will pave the way for a successful implementation. A clear vision for an organization’s goals steers the implementation to fulfill that vision.

A key part of the discovery phase is to list the organization’s key success criteria for the project. These may have been drawn up at the early stages of the engagement. Key stakeholders within the organization will have defined their expectations from the Power Platform digital transformation project. As a solution architect, you will be responsible for ensuring that these key success criteria are understood and recorded so that they may be used as a compass steering the implementation.

Organizations often have a clearly defined idea of what their success criteria are. You may at times need to ask relevant questions to engage the key stakeholders and project owners. The following set of questions...