Power Apps Hackathon — Lesson 1: Challenge Discovery and Solution Pitch

Learning Objectives

• Identify users, pain points, process, data, business value, risk, and success measures
• Prioritize scope, features, roles, acceptance criteria, and minimum viable solution
• Create a solution pitch, storyboard, architecture, and delivery plan

Detailed Topics

• Identify users: Identify users, pain points, process, data, business value, risk, and success measures
• Prioritize scope: Prioritize scope, features, roles, acceptance criteria, and minimum viable solution
• Create a solution pitch: Create a solution pitch, storyboard, architecture, and delivery plan

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, development, administration, collaboration, analysis, or automation workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Define and pitch a hackathon challenge.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Challenge Discovery and Solution Pitch in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.