Designing the target architecture before you genuinely understand the current one is how programmes build something elegant that doesn’t fit. The As-Is is not a history lesson — it is the directive for everything that follows.
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Solution Architecture
The discipline itself: requirements engineering, As-Is and To-Be modelling, fit-gap analysis, the nine pillars, and the design calls that decide whether a programme holds up in production. Product-aware, but about the craft rather than any one tool.
The nine pillars of a Power Platform architecture that survives production
There is no single design pattern for a good Power Platform solution. But there are nine principles that, applied consistently, separate an architecture that survives production from one that quietly falls apart after go-live.
Fit-gap analysis: the step most Dynamics 365 projects skip
Most Dynamics 365 programmes go from requirements straight into build. The step they skip — fit-gap analysis — is the one that decides whether you are configuring the platform or custom-building your way around it.