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What Brings You Here?

Different roles have different questions. Choose your path — each leads to the most relevant content for where you are right now.

🏛 I'm Driving the Strategy

CEO · CIO · CTO · CFO · Business Leader

Setting the platform strategy, justifying the investment, automating business processes, and ensuring the organisation moves faster without losing control.

Your framework is BOLT →

Start with:

  1. BOLT Overview — the operating model in 5 minutes
  2. The Four Delivery Tiers — who owns what, at what complexity
  3. Roles & Accountability — the RACI that eliminates ownership ambiguity
  4. Foundation & Readiness — what's needed and how to assess readiness

Then read: SHIELD Overview — to understand the security model that makes BOLT's pre-approvals possible

⚙ I'm Operating the Platform

Admin · CoE Lead · Platform Lead

Setting up governance, managing environments, running the CoE, and keeping things from breaking as adoption scales across the organisation.

Your framework is SCALE-OPS →

Start with:

  1. SCALE-OPS Overview — the eight capabilities at a glance
  2. Containment — environment strategy (the most-got-wrong decision)
  3. Stewardship — governance model and admin roles
  4. Automation — ALM infrastructure and pipelines

Then read: BOLT Guardrails — to understand the citizen development boundaries you're enabling

🔧 I'm Building On It

Solution Maker · Developer · Citizen Developer

Building apps, flows, agents, and automations — and trying to understand the guardrails, architecture patterns, and how to get solutions to production correctly.

Your framework is DIALOGE →

Start with:

  1. DIALOGE Overview — the seven building blocks
  2. D — Data — get the data layer right first
  3. G — Go-Live — how to deploy correctly
  4. L — Logic — where logic belongs (and where it doesn't)

Then read: BOLT Delivery Tiers — to understand which tier your solution belongs to and what that means for IT involvement

🔒 I'm Securing and Auditing It

CISO · Security Architect · Compliance · SOC

Ensuring Power Platform meets security, compliance, and regulatory requirements across identity, data, applications, infrastructure, and threat response.

Your framework is SHIELD →

Start with:

  1. SHIELD Overview — the six pillars and the security baseline
  2. I — Inspect — the risk-based application security review model
  3. E — Enforce — compliance evidence and audit readiness
  4. H — Harden — DLP design and data protection

Then read: BOLT Guardrails — to understand the pre-approval model your function needs to support

Not Sure Where to Start?

Read How the Frameworks Connect for a visual map of how BOLT, SCALE-OPS, DIALOGE, and SHIELD work together — and which one matters most for your immediate question.

Part of powerplatform.wiki Last updated: March 2026