Last fall, I was encouraged by some prominent members of the Power Platform community to volunteer as a speaker for the Powerful Devs Conference, an all-virtual event hosted by the Microsoft Reactor group that aims to help developers leverage the Power Platform to build applications faster and with far less effort. Never one to shy away from an opportunity to share some Joy Opinions™, I said yes!
I tapped my friend Denisse Luna to come on this journey with me. We met on a large scale Power Platform development factory (a project which fully consumed my life for 1.5 years). I quickly recognized Denisse as someone I wanted to keep in my close network forever. Her skills and experience, personality and creativity just make her a joy to collaborate with. And hey, Denisse once asked me how to get more involved in the community— so what better way than to drag her along with me in a speaker submission?
Denisse was so instrumental in the success of this session! The topic was her idea, and she wrote the outline, content, script and even created the cloud flow configurations. I helped too with slide design and script tweaks and presentation tips. We spent nights and weekends on finalizing our content and dry runs, including a hilarious session where we designed the world’s worst cloud flow definition to use as our “what not to do” example.
In The Developer’s Approach to Power Automate, seasoned professional developers and newcomers to low-code alike can learn to uplevel their Power Automate cloud flows with best practices and tips from two speakers with a combined 24 years of functional and technical experience in Dynamics CRM, Dataverse and Power Platform.
- For pro devs who are dabbling in low code, these approaches & tips will help you infuse your wealth of experience into cloud flow definitions using the right tools to optimize for performance and efficiency.
- For low code makers (shout out to my Functional Consultants fam!), adapting these best practices into every cloud flow will ensure your automations are taking the right actions at the right time, without unnecessary slowdowns or billable actions.
Come watch Denisse help me out with my cloud flow that’s gone totally off the rails 😱 and teach me how to bring a pro dev mindset to my low code automations.
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