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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

Balancing digital transformation risk factors through planning and mitigation

Identifying risks to a project will help guide key decisions early in the project toward a satisfactory conclusion. During the discovery phase, you will want to review the organization and the project for the following risks.

These are the types of potential project and organizational risks:

  • Non-tangible risks
  • Team capabilities and skillsets
  • Project timeline risks
  • Budget constraint risks
  • The organization’s competitors

As part of the discovery phase, you will want to identify the different risks to the project and put in place a mitigation strategy for dealing with those risks during the project’s life cycle.

Through an analysis of an organization’s business process strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis), you will gain visibility over areas of concern to be aware of (such as potential risks to the project due to budget constraints...