But how do larger organizations truly adopt that platform at scale? How do we maturely infuse enterprise management, governance, and best practices into our adoption such that we empower our business users to build beautiful and useful things whilst also helping our friends in IT rest easy that the platform is stable and secure?
I’ve been incredibly excited this month to finally be sharing the first edition Power Platform Adoption Framework (#PowerPlatformAF), the community-driven, start-to-finish approach to adopting Power Platform at scale in enterprise-grade organizations. It began with my team at Applied Information Sciences (AIS), but we’ve decided to share it so that everyone can use it. We believe that a vibrant and thriving community around this technology is good for everyone who uses it. Now there is a group of us from different organizations around the world who are collaborating and evolving the framework and the best practices from which it is made. I hope you’ll take it, use it, and then get in touch so that together we can keep improving it with best practices as they emerge.
We intend this to be a framework for adoption of the whole platform. When I talk about migrating “workloads” to Power Platform, very often I am finding that these workloads are at their best when we weave them together from bits of Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow. Think about Power BI as you use the framework to roadmap, prioritize candidate workloads for migration, and then actually build. The fusion of great technology that is Power Platform urges us to get beyond thinking about migrating workloads in a 1:1 way. Some workloads or legacy apps are better served as multiple but related components on the Power Platform; some are better served through consolidation, say, into the single source of truth that is Common Data Service.
Whatever you do, don’t fall into the trap of Just-an-App-ism. The platform is so much more.
Our brilliantly creative global community is so important to the Power Platform Adoption Framework’s evolving and thriving as a standard for implementing the platform at scale. We need one another to do our very best work. Join us?
[Get the Power Platform Adoption Framework white paper here]
