Introduction

Completed

In this module, you'll envision the solution based on details included. This module is open-ended by design and you'll use the Student Workbook (xlsx) to complete the assignment.

Objectives

In this workshop you demonstrate your ability to:

  • Choose a customer based on a provided industry.
  • Get to know the customer.
  • Evaluate the current state of technology at the customer.
  • Compare this to the stated needs.
  • Perform discovery and planning exercises.

Prerequisites

  • Experiences architecting solutions using Dynamics 365 Finance

Level: Advanced

In this module, you create your own solutions to the stated problems. This workshop is open-ended by design.

In this workshop you're analyzing and architecting solutions based on a series of sheets in a planning workbook. You're choosing the company to use, so we’ve given you detail based on industry standards. Your chosen company may or may not exactly fit the guidelines here, use creative license to evaluate and architect solutions for the new product line they are planning.

You need to select a public company you aren't very familiar with in the manufacturing or distribution industry and use what you learn to start discovery of that company using public sources.

Note

This exercise is based on distribution but could easily be applied to almost any product-oriented use case.

What will we be doing?

  • Choose a customer based on a provided industry.
  • Get to know the customer.
  • Evaluate the current state of technology at the customer.
  • Compare this to the stated needs.
  • Perform discovery and planning exercises.
  • Complete the project workbook.

What is the main goal?

By the end of this challenge, you have a project workbook with your decisions for the solution you're architecting.