Introducing Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach to adopting Power Platform at scale
I am so excited to be sharing the first edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach for adopting Microsoft’s Power Platform at scale. The white paper is available at this link.
My hope is that the framework will continue to become a worldwide standard for enterprise-grade adoption of the Power Platform. I’ve been lucky to collaborate with Power Platform experts and citizen developers around the world to create this, and I’m proud to say that my company — Applied Information Sciences (AIS) — is fully behind the framework, sharing it with the community, and committed to its future development as best practices for enterprise adoption evolve. We’re sharing it so that everyone can use it, because we believe that a vibrant and thriving community around this technology is good for everyone who uses it.
I want to specifically cite my friends Manuela Pichler, Keith Whatling, Lee Baker, and Lucy Muscat, and the folks at Microsoft for their energy and ideas working on this together. For all the strength of its technology, it is the global community supporting and improving that technology which makes Power Platform so vibrant. Please follow these brilliant people on Twitter at the links referenced on their names above.
I’ll excerpt just a bit from the white paper’s introduction below. The complete paper is available at https://ais.live/PPAF.
More and more organizations are transforming their business in the cloud. They are modernizing legacy enterprise applications with enterprise-grade capabilities such as Microsoft’s Common Data Service, and they are bringing shadow IT and quasi-apps out of the shadows. They are empowering citizen developers to connect siloed data, engage customers, and drive ROI with powerful solutions in PowerApps, Power BI, Flow, the Common Data Service (CDS), and Dynamics 365.
Mature organizations realize that rigor, discipline, and best practices are needed to truly adopt the platform at scale. The Power Platform Adoption Framework is the start-to-finish approach for adopting the platform at scale.
It helps enterprise organizations:
Get to value quickly
Educate, train, and grow their community of citizen developers and power users
Create durable partnerships between business, IT, and the user group community
Continuously improve ROI on the platform by identifying and migrating new workloads
Blend agile app development with rigorous enterprise management and governance
My goal here is for Power Platform Adoption Framework and this first edition white paper to further progress our shared successes implementing and managing the platform at scale. Look for that evolution to come via an update in the coming months - we’re already hard at work on it! Finally, I hope you will share, experiment, and contribute to that evolution with us. These are exciting times, and I’m grateful for everyone whose working through them.
