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Concepts within Power Platform

Glossaries from Microsoft

Power Automate glossary Model-driven apps glossary

Acronymes related to Power Platform

Acronym	Meaning	Description
AIAD	App in a Day	Global training concept where you learn about Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse etc. See In a Day.
AID	Analytics in a Day	Global training concept targeting Data Engineers/Architects. See In a Day.
ALM	Application Lifecycle Management	The lifecycle management of applications which includes governance, development and maintenance.
CDM	Common Data Model	A set of standardized, extensible data schemas that Microsoft and its partners have published.
CDS	Common Data Service	A service for storing data in the could, back-end for model-driven Power Apps, security management and more.
CoE	Center of Excellence	Center of Excellence for the Power Platform, take a look at the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit
CRM	Customer Relationship Management	The concept of managing customer relationships.
CWA	Custom Workflow Activity	Classic workflows can be extended by creating a CWA.
DIAD	Dashboard in a Day	Global training concept targeting Business Analysts. See In a Day.
GA	General Availability	Release of software which is good enough to be made available outside the originating company.
MAIAD	Modern Excel Analyst in a Day	Global training concept targeting Excel Data Users. See In a Day.
PCF	Power Apps Component Framework	The framework which Microsoft uses for developing components to Power Apps.
PVA	Power Virtual Agents	One of the four main services of Power Platform. Build No-Code/Low-Code chat bots.
RPA	Robotic Process Automation	Automate usage of legacy applications. Set it up with Power Platform, part of Power Automate.
PPAF	Power Platform Adoption Framework	Also abbreviated "PowerPlatformAF". A community-driven framework for adopting, managing, governing, and using Power Platform to develop solutions at scale.
PSA	Project Service Automation	One part of Microsoft Dynamics 365
RPAIAD	RPA in a Day	Global training concept targeting Business and IT users. See In a Day.
ISV	Independent Software Vendor	An organization specializing in making and selling software.
URS	Universal Resource Scheduling	Scheduling for any entity in Dynamics 365 Sales, Field Service, Customer Service, and Project Service Automation, including custom entities
xRM	eXtended Relationship Management or any Relationship Management	Where it all started. 😉 From xRM to CDS to Dataverse.

Terminology updates within Microsoft Dataverse!

What we once knew as Entity, Field, Record, Option Set and Two Option are now Table, Column, Row, Choice and Yes/No. Terminology updates

Fusion Team personas

Fusion Teams is a concept often mentioned during Microsoft events. When Business Users and Developers work together in order to create Business Applications a so called Fusion Team is formed. There is a Microsoft Learn learning path about Fusion Teams and in the beginning Thereses a chapter ”Meet the Team”, which introduced the following roles: Full-stack developer, Office Manager, people from the business, different departements e.g. Inventory Management in the example, Lead Technician, IT responsible.

Roles

You often see Citizen Developer vs. Professional Developer. The Citizen Developer is usually someone at an organization who knows the business and who uses low-code tools to create business applications which support business processes, takes away manual work and make the business more productive. A Professional Developer typically is someone who writes code using an IDE (integrated development environment) and writes traditional code and extends with code where the low-code takes you no further.

A Maker is someone who uses the low-code tools and create apps, chat bots, automations etc. An Admin typically manages environments, settings and Users etc.

Have you seen other descriptions of these personas? Let us know!

Also see Release Plan for a description from a feature perspective, what personas the features that are to be rolled out targets.

The Power Platform Adoption Framework also brings up different roles and personas.

Power Platform Weekly personas

The community driven weekly newsletter PPWeekly uses personas with related icons in order for their subscribers to more easily find content relevant for them. The following personas are used:

🤵🏻 Business User

🦸🏻‍♀️ Maker

🧭 Decision Maker

👩‍💻 Developer / Architect

🚀 Admin / Center of Excellence

📅 Events & Webinars

About the CRM functionality from Microsoft

First there was Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Then came Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE). Then came Power Apps and the former Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365 became customer engagement (model-driven) apps, built on Power Platform. These apps are also referred to as first-party model apps. Examples are Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service. The on-premises version still goes under the name Dynamics 365 CE.

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+== Concepts within Power Platform ==
+* [[Power Apps]]
+* [[Power Automate]]
+* [[Power BI]]
+* [[Power Virtual Agents]]
+* [[Microsoft Dataverse]]
+* [[AI Builder]]
+* [[Connectors]]
+== Glossaries from Microsoft ==
+[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/glossary Power Automate glossary]
+[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/model-driven-app-glossary Model-driven apps glossary]
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-== Concepts within Power Platform ==
+=== Fusion Team personas ===
-* [[Power Apps]]
+[[Fusion Teams]] is a concept often mentioned during Microsoft events. When Business Users and Developers work together in order to create Business Applications a so called Fusion Team is formed. There is a Microsoft Learn learning path about Fusion Teams and in the beginning Thereses a chapter ”Meet the Team”, which introduced the following roles: Full-stack developer, Office Manager, people from the business, different departements e.g. Inventory Management in the example, Lead Technician, IT responsible.
-* [[Power Automate]]
-* [[Power BI]]
-* [[Power Virtual Agents]]
-* [[Microsoft Dataverse]]
-* [[AI Builder]]
-* [[Connectors]]
 == Roles ==
-You often see <i> Citizen Developer</i> vs. <i>Professional Developer</i>. The Citizen Developer is usually someone at an organization who knows the business and who uses low-code tools to create business applications which support this persons business processes, takes away manual work
+You often see <i> Citizen Developer</i> vs. <i>Professional Developer</i>. The Citizen Developer is usually someone at an organization who knows the business and who uses low-code tools to create business applications which support business processes, takes away manual work
 and make the business more productive. A Professional Developer typically is someone who writes code using an IDE (integrated development environment) and writes traditional code and extends with code where the low-code takes you no further.
 A <i>Maker</i> is someone who uses the low-code tools and create apps, chat bots, automations etc.
 An <i>Admin</i> typically manages environments, settings and Users etc.
+Have you seen other descriptions of these personas? Let us know!
 Also see [[Release Plan]] for a description from a feature perspective, what personas the features that are to be rolled out targets.
 The [[Power Platform Adoption Framework]] also brings up different roles and personas.
-=== Possible careers ===
-Here follows examples of different careers one can have working with Power Platform.
-* Consultant at a Microsoft partner
-* Microsoft employee
-* ISV vendor
-* Start-up as ISV partner or Consultancy firm
-* Business Analyst
-* Project Manager who works at an ISV company, consultancy firm or at an organization who builds Power Platform related solutions to be used at that organization.
-* Business User who uses apps, automation and chat bots and/or become a Maker and [[Citizen Developer]] too.
-* Scrum Master
-* Product Owner
-* Developer
-=== Mentoring ===
-* [https://www.anainesurrutia.com/post/humansofit-microsoft-ignite-we-rise-by-lifting-others #HumansofIT | Microsoft Ignite - We rise by lifting others] Ana Inés Urrutia  shares her journey and lets you know if mentoring is for you.
-* [https://ako.nz365guy.com/ Mark Smith's 90 Day Mentoring Challenge] A free program to attend, where Mark goes though 6 cohorts with related assignments. Career paths are described too as part of the program!
-=== Fusion Team personas ===
-[[Fusion Teams]] is a concept often mentioned during Microsoft events. When Business Users and Developers work together in order to create Business Applications a so called Fusion Team is formed. There is a Microsoft Learn learning path about Fusion Teams and in the beginning Thereses a chapter ”Meet the Team”, which introduced the following roles: Full-stack developer, Office Manager, people from the business, different departements e.g. Inventory Management in the example, Lead Technician, IT responsible.
 === Power Platform Weekly personas ===