Challenge 01 - Power Platform Environment

Introduction - Tailspin Toys – Order Process Automation

Tailspin Toys is a toy and school supplies company. The company sells toy products, party products, and different school supplies through its retail locations and the Internet. Tailspin Toys has around 500 stores all over the world and has ten major contracts for school supplies all over USA. The company stores are located in 35 countries. The company owns and operates one website http://www.tailspintoys.com/ that includes an online store. The second biggest market for them is in Poland, Europe so the company opened a subsidiary there.

Subsidiary address: Ul. Dobra, 4321, Warsaw, Poland Phone number: +48 12 345 67 89

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tailspin toys identified challenges in their supply chain. Their legacy based order system required on premises hardware that is costly to scale and would eventually become obsolete. The board has approved investing in a new platform that will automate their order taking; however, due to the limited budget, the solution must have the following properties:

Minimal user interface maintenance as much of the experience is delivered via configuration versus outright coding.
Predominantly a low code development platform.
Canvas and Model-driven apps with tried and tested application lifecycle management options.
Supports a strong and flexible data security model affecting the degree to which users can interact with table records and columns.
Logic can be introduced to ensure that columns contain the data that adheres to the business rules.
Solution will be maintained by the team via Citizen Developer

Description

In this challenge the team will discuss the value proposition of Power Platform, design a solution, and install system requirements. You will choose a platform for Tailspin Toys and provision the Power Platform environment and necessary licenses.

Student Resources

Your coach will provide you with a Resources.zip file that contains resource files you will use to complete some of the challenges for this hack. You should unpack the Resources.zip file on your workstation. The challenges will refer to files and relative folder paths from wherever you unpack the Zip file.

Choose the platform and build environment

Answer the question: What platform will you choose and why?
Form a team and assign roles. Recommended: Choose a method of collaboration (e.g. OneNote, Teams, etc.)
Provision requirements for Power Platform.
To begin this challenge, Tailspin Toys would like your team to create a new solution in your team’s development environment. This new solution will serve as a container for the components that your team will be assigned in later challenges. In accordance with application lifecycle management (ALM) best practices, all future work should be created from this solution

Bonus Challenge: Have the team present to the Tailspin Toys board their platform of choice and why. Include milestones if confident.

NOTE: This challenge will require licenses to complete the challenge using a trial account.

Your coach may provide credentials to enviroments
Or you may create trials yourself. For more information on creating a trial account, see the TenantSetup.pdf in the Resources.zip file provided by your coach.

Success Criteria

Provide the coaches with the platform of choice which should be Power Platform.
You should detail the team structure, show how you will collaborate, and understand how the environment is setup.
Successfully log into the Power Automate maker portal
Successfully log into the Power Apps maker portal
Locate your environment which has dataverse provisioned
BONUS: Deliver this in PPT to the coaches similar to showing to key stakeholders and decision makers.
BONUS: Show licensing and Costs associated to solutions