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People

Hey everyone! Today’s blog post is about the next step of the Maker Movement - People! How do we inspire them to start their Power Platform or Copilot journey?

Who / Where do we find them?

What’s in it for them?

What could it mean to their career?

Jump in for a read to find out more!

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Leaders

‘Leaders’ is the first, or last (as I explain in the post), step of the ‘Maker Movement’ we’re going to delve into. They’re critical to our success and to the success of inspiring and directing the organisation to help them understand what the platform is, what it does, and why it’s important to THEM, and the organisation. But there are different types of leaders! Who? Well read this post to understand that, and how Backstage Leadership can be used to drive our value hypothesis!

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Community

In this post I explore ‘Community’ and how we can use them to help us build adoption and enablement. In this blog post I describe:

  • What ‘community is’

  • Where it fits in helping us achieve our goal of growing adoption and enablement

  • How technology, process, and people, come together to enable community behaviours and feelings, supported by the culture we need to establish to help it to happen

  • What different stages of community / platform might look like and where it aligns with the value model

  • How we can generate traffic INTO the community to attract more members and traffic WITHIN the community to provide value, and fun, to it’s members

Come and jump in to learn more!

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Measures and KPIs

Power Platform Measures & KPIs - In business we have a love affair with measures and KPIs. We often measure a lot! Some might say we sometimes measure too much… and it’s not always clear WHY we are measuring those things? Who is actually looking at those measures and what do they do with them? Let’s take a look at measures and where we can start with our Power Platform adoption!

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The Maker Movement

The Maker Movement is a frame work of steps centred on building an enabling community that give a way to iteratively grow engagement and adoption.

In this post you’ll get a high level overview of the steps to Establish behaviours, enable those behaviours to deliver value, and use story telling to reinforce those behaviours and attract others to join the movement too!

The key ingredient is… fun!

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Viral Change

Viral Change is a method of creating pull and attract people to the Power Platform! We want people to see what’s being done, how someone is doing it, recognise the value in doing it, join in and become part of something, and to call to their friends and colleagues to encourage them to join too, and where possible to have fun doing it too! But how? I’ll tell you in this week’s blog post! 😁

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Vision & Strategy

How do we define a vision and strategy for our Power Platform Implementation? Then break that down into a roadmap of goals which we can translate down into a series of aligned activities to achieve our vision over time.

So… Where to start… The approach I’m going to use to break this down is to talk about Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, and OKRs and we’re going to think about Power Platform in our organisation as a ‘Product’ rather than a ‘Project’.

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PP Value Hypothesis

When we tend to talk about ‘Value’ we usually hear conversations about how much time the thing saves… How much lower costs are… How output has been increased… How quality has been improved… These are all types of value and they’re all valid an important. But there’s more to consider here… MUCH more!

In this post I’m going to explain how I think about value of the power platform and how we maximise it!

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PP Enablement - My view of the world

Power Platform Enablement is the framework and approach we set and follow to systematically unlock the value of the Power Platform. Using some of the principles of more traditional change management approaches, coupled with ‘Viral Change’ techniques we can help change behaviours and support the success of Citizen Developers!

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CoE vs CoEn

Have you considered how a Centre of Excellence (CoE) and Centre of Enablement (CoEn) are critical to enabling value from the Power Platform in an organisation? Just having the platform configured safely and securely isn’t enough. We need to also unlock value!

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Welcome!

It all begins with an idea.

Welcome to my blog! I decided it was time to start writing about something that I’ve been part of, living, breathing, and leading, for a number of years now… Power Platform Governance, Adoption, and Enablement!

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