Power Platform Adoption Maturity Model
Adoption, or in plain language, the extent to which users and organizations embrace new technology has much more to do with a change process than with technology. Unfortunately, implementing technology often gets much more attention than using this technology. And that is unfortunately no different with the Power Platform.
The Power Platform is so widely applicable that it is not enough just to have the technical implementation in order. To be truly successful with the Power Platform, you will also need to pay attention to guiding, supporting and educating business users about the possibilities (and impossibilities) of the Power Platform.
It Power Platform Adoption Maturity Model is here for a useful tool. Just like the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model this model is also based on the Capability Maturity Model, a model based on a maturity index.
In the Power Platform Adoption Maturity Model, five phases have been defined. A number of steps and best practices have been developed per phase. In addition, the roles, tasks and responsibilities of various disciplines are included in each phase. In this way, you can plot your own organization and determine the next steps to grow as an organization into adulthood with the Power Platform.
Fusion Teams
The Power Platform Adoption Maturity Model also talks about setting up Fusion Development. Under the name Fusion Teams, citizen developers, full-stack developers and IT Pros are brought together. Of course, the same phases can be identified within this discipline: from doing pilots to having a supported vision of development, release management and support.
When you have dozens of solutions in use on the Power Platform, you really need to pay attention to Application Lifecycle Management, as we wrote earlier. And although creating documentation is always a tedious thing, even with low-code applications, you can't avoid recording technical and functional descriptions in order to keep things manageable.
It starts, with beginning...
The Power Platform Maturity Model assumes that you are already working with the Power Platform, and that is of course far from everyone. So how do you get started? The answer is simple: by starting.
If you use Microsoft 365, you can just get started; the most important parts of the Power Platform are already included in your license. Start by determining which use case you can fill out, what problem do you want to solve. Are you going for a BI dashboard? Do you want to automate a process? Or just build an application where different components come together?
Each of the Power Platform applications has a different perspective, but they are all characterized by the ability to get started easily and without technical knowledge. Once you've found a suitable use case, it's a matter of getting started.
There are different learning paths from Microsoft that help you understand the possibilities. Also take a look at YouTube to tutorials, there is really a lot to find there. And of course, we're also happy to help you with an inspiring workshop or creating your first app!
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