Sharing the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second edition
The Power Platform Adoption Framework’s second edition features London—home to an incredible Power Platform community—on its cover.
To our friends, colleagues, and fellow makers in the global Power Platform community,
Today we’re releasing the second edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework.
Much has happened since we released the first edition in 2019:
The platform has continued to mature with the launch of powerful new technologies including Power Virtual Agents, AI Builder, Power Apps Portals, UI flows, and—of course—ongoing improvements to Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Common Data Service, and the Dynamics 365 first-party apps.
The adoption framework itself has become fully-community driven with a successful move to GitHub announced at the London Power Platform User Group on 19 September 2019.
Power Platform adoption has soared worldwide, and with it so to has grown the incredible community of practitioners as we've welcomed citizen developers and full-time Power Platform developers alike to a passionate global network whose in-person and virtual events continue to grow bigger and more technically sophisticated.
And, of course, as we write this people around the world are grappling with the COVID-19 virus and the upending changes to our way of life that the virus has wrought. Power Platform is helping us through these times as well, not just thanks to solutions like those for Crisis Communications or Emergency Response, but thanks also to the #PowerAddicts and others in the worldwide Microsoft business applications community who support one another personally and professionally every day.
So we're introducing some new ideas—and new ways of thinking about existing concepts—as we enter the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second year. As a "framework", we're committed to broadly applicable best practices for adoption at scale, not to being a technical manual. We're encouraging organizations to create playbooks (literally or figuratively) that complement our shared "framework" with organization-specific technical considerations.
Context is so important here. For example, whilst the framework's best practices will apply broadly to big enterprise banks and small / medium businesses alike, those two very different types of organizations will naturally face different drivers and constraints. That's why we try to avoid being technically prescriptive unless we feel it absolutely necessary. Likewise, some adoptions feature a significant "citizen developer" emphasis, whilst others do not. Power Platform Adoption Framework is about the ability to adopt at scale either way.
Moving forward we will continue to focus on openness with the community so that the framework can truly be a globally-inspired collection of best practices for adopting Power Platform at scale. This is reflected both in the ongoing work on GitHub, and in the publisher's de-emphasis on marketing branding in the official second edition white paper. We’ll honor this focus by featuring the world’s great Power Platform community cities on the cover of the official release white papers, beginning with London on the cover of the second edition.
Power Platform is a first-class citizen in the cloud transformation journey. Indeed, the platform exists alongside Azure and Microsoft 365 as one of Microsoft's "three clouds". We increasingly see this trend at forward-thinking organizations in some of the most complex or regulated sectors. They are realizing that Power Platform is an enterprise-grade platform for enterprise-grade workloads.
Thank you for joining us on this journey, for all that you do for our shared community, and for your continuing best practice contributions to the Power Platform Adoption Framework.
- Andrew Welch, Microsoft MVP
Power Platform Adoption Framework team
