Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) — Lesson 3: Maker Enablement and Community

Lesson Overview

This lesson develops practical understanding of Maker Enablement and Community within the Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) learning path.

Learners connect the key concepts to a realistic Power Platform Center of Excellence strategy and operations scenario and document the decisions, evidence, risks, and improvement opportunities identified during the activity.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the purpose and role of maker enablement and community.
• Apply the lesson concepts to a practical Power Platform Center of Excellence strategy and operations requirement.
• Recognize security, governance, operational, and quality considerations.
• Validate the result and recommend appropriate next steps.

Topics Covered

• training and support
• champion networks
• templates and standards
• communication and adoption

Hands-On Activity

1. Review the scenario, stakeholders, current process, requirements, and expected outcome.
2. Prepare the required Microsoft environment, design, query, report, script, or configuration.
3. Complete the guided implementation and record important decisions and dependencies.
4. Test the outcome using functional, security, data-quality, and operational checks.
5. Document issues, corrective actions, evidence, and an improvement recommendation.

Validation Checklist

• The solution or analysis matches the documented requirement.
• Configuration, calculations, queries, scripts, or workflows produce the expected result.
• Security, access, governance, data quality, and operational impacts are reviewed.
• Errors and limitations are documented with clear corrective actions.
• The final output includes reusable notes and practical next steps.

Lesson Outcome

After completing this lesson, learners can explain, apply, and validate maker enablement and community in a realistic workplace scenario.