In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Global Blackbelt Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft, Carsten Groth, about the Power Platform pipelines.

Some of the highlights:

• What does Global Blackbelt do
• Why ALM, Pipeline, DevOps, etc. become a hot topic lately in Power Platform
• How long have Power Platform pipelines been available
• What are people using it for
• A typical cycle of projects from beginning to moving into production
• What are the recommendations before even starting the pipelines
• Not to close down the creativity of the makers
• Elevated pitch for Power Platform pipelines
• What kind of user-friendly error messages do Power Platform pipelines show for missing artefacts
• How easy it is to set up the Power Platform pipelines
• How do Power Platform pipelines handle some of the prompts during the solution import process (Connection Reference, Environment Variable, etc.)
• Best way to set up Power Platform pipelines
• What happens once we enable managed environments for a particular environment

Carsten's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/carstengroth
• @carsten_growth
• Blog: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com
• Pipelines in Power Platform is Generally Available (GA): https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/pipelines-in-power-platform-is-generally-available-ga
• Power Platform pipelines blog post series
  • https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/power-platform-pipelines
  • The Admin View: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/power-platform-pipelines-the-admin-view
  • Makers & Environment Variables: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/13/power-platform-makers-environment-variables
  • The Security Model: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/power-platform-pipelines-the-security-model

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