Microsoft Power Platform adoption guidance

Microsoft Power Platform adoption guidance helps you create and implement business and technology strategies for success with Microsoft Power Platform. This guidance provides recommendations for Power Platform Center of Excellence (or Center of Enablement) leads, Power Platform admins, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), IT operations and support, and business decision makers to achieve short-term and long-term objectives.

Microsoft Power Platform adoption guidance helps organizations align business and technical strategies for success.

The Microsoft Power Platform adoption guidance helps establish "digital guardrails" for the platform within an enterprise. This approach lets professional and citizen developers build solutions confidently, knowing that what they build is managed, secured, and compliant with best practices. A key objective is creating an environment—both technically and culturally speaking—in which your users can thrive.

Microsoft Power Platform adoption guidance includes documentation, recommendations, and templates proven to accelerate your adoption journey. It provides tools, guidance, and narratives to shape technology, business, and people strategies for achieving desired business outcomes.

This guidance aligns with the following pillars and responsibilities for adoption.

Pillar	Description
Strategy	Document the objectives, the measurable key results, and the key initiatives behind Power Platform adoption.
Plan	Define roles, responsibilities, and delivery models.
Security	Protect your workloads and data from threats and meet compliance requirements.
Governance	Implement digital guardrails for your makers to create with confidence.
Operations	Establish a strategy for application lifecycle management and ongoing production support.
Availability	Plan for failures and build a disaster recovery plan.
Readiness	Upskill your makers and envision high-value use cases.
Community	Accelerate your adoption with a thriving internal community.

Intended audiences

This guidance affects the business, technology, and culture of organizations. The guidance is intended for roles such as:

• Power Platform Center of Excellence or Center of Enablement leads
• Line-of-business leaders
• Business decision makers
• IT decision makers
• Power Platform administrators
• IT operations / IT support
• IT security and compliance
• IT governance
• IT project delivery
• IT change management
• Enterprise architects
• Business subject matter experts

Each role has unique goals and key performance indicators, and different parts of the guidance are relevant to specific audiences. This collection of guidance helps drive decision-making and ensures every role involved in Power Platform adoption has the right conversations with the right audiences.

Related information

• Microsoft Power Platform admin documentation
• Microsoft Power Platform documentation
• Microsoft Power Platform training