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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

Delivering the requirements gathering sessions

Having prepared the requirements capture sessions in advance, you are now ready to start delivering the workshops. One of the first things you want to do is set the scene by setting out the desired outcome of the workshops and reviewing the agenda.

Starting with the desired outcome

At the start of the workshop, you will want to clearly set out the desired outcome of the workshops so that everybody in attendance is on the same page. Understanding the overall aim of the workshop with a clear mission statement will guide the conversation to achieve the desired goal.

Driving the agenda

The requirements gathering workshops will follow a predefined agenda. This might be in the form of allocated sets of time for specific business processes or areas of the project. As a solution architect, it is important to ensure the items on the agenda are covered. Additionally, you should guide the discussions to ensure that the requirements for...