Karl-Johan Spiik
Microsoft MVP Power Automate, AI Ambassador, Power Platform Architect, Author, Leadership hacker | Solution Architect @ Digia
Kaarina, Finland
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Karl-Johan has done 17 years projects with Microsoft technologies. Past four years he has been working with the Power Platform, particularly with Power Automate, and have extended its capabilities with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 products as well as Azure resources. Karl-Johan has completed about 100 projects with various industries and organization sizes as role of architect and Scrum Master. Latest projects with AI Builder, Azure OpenAI and Copilot Studio.
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How to add AI to your daily routines as developer
Why cannot we think outside the box? How to start questioning the way you work?
We build solutions using AI to others but usually it feels that we cannot use AI to help our work. With Power Platform development there is Copilot, but it is in baby steps. If you are advanced developer, the Copilot won’t help you. What are the other ways or establishing the usage of AI in our work.
Session will give practical examples how to use AI in software development for Power Platform. Half of the session is non-technical information how to start thinking differently. The other half is examples of creating test data with AI, using the AI solutions to help the development and how to extend project scope including AI in the work output itself.
Streamline customer requests and improve consultant productivity
This session shows how to automate customer requests from shared email and integrate them into Azure DevOps backlog with Power Automate and notify developer via Teams group chat offering possibility to assign the task for me with a click of a button.
As consultants, we face multiple channels of customer contact, such as email, phone, chat, etc. This creates challenges, such as:
• Keeping track of data and requests from different sources.
• Losing or forgetting some requests in the information flood.
• Lack of visibility and control over the status and progress of the requests.
• Low efficiency and quality of the service due to fragmentation and confusion.
Session take aways
- Learn how to automate the creation of tasks in Azure DevOps from customer emails using Power Automate
- Simplify the communication and collaboration among consultants by using a shared mailbox and a group Teams chat
- Increase the visibility and control of customer requests by using adaptive cards and tracking the progress in Azure DevOps
- Improve the customer satisfaction and retention by serving them in their preferred channel and providing transparent work
Efficient CI/CD Pipelines and Logging for Power Platform: Managed Environments and Beyond
Join us for an in-depth exploration of creating robust CI/CD pipelines tailored for Power Platform projects with managed environments. This session will guide you through the nuances of extending pipeline functionality to integrate with GitHub for solution package storage, a critical step often overlooked when the pipeline does not save the solution package like it’s colleague Azure DevOps pipeline does.
Key Takeaways:
• Best Practices: Learn how to construct CI/CD pipelines that enhance your Power Platform project’s deployment and development lifecycle.
• Integration Techniques: Discover methods to extend your pipeline’s capabilities, ensuring your solution packages are safely stored on GitHub.
• Exclusive Giveaways: Attendees will receive exclusive resources that can be leveraged to streamline their CI/CD pipeline setup.
• Comparative Analysis: Evaluate the differences between Power Platform’s managed environments and Azure DevOps pipelines, particularly the need for Premium licenses to unlock all functionalities.
• Simplified Setup: Experience how managed environments can expedite the configuration of Dataverse, Power Apps, and Power Automate, along with seamless logging integration with Azure Application Insights.
Session Benefits: This session is designed for professionals seeking to enhance their Power Platform projects with efficient CI/CD practices and logging. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or new to the platform, you’ll leave with actionable insights and the knowledge to implement advanced pipeline strategies in your organization.
Community-Led Teams
Team without a leader, what is it? Modern work is based on community-led (self-organizing) teams that work without an obvious leader or they use shared leadership. Working in a community-led team challenges the team members to grow as people and to take responsibility for the whole group. The key word here is communication.
Microsoft Teams evolve as communication tool and without ICT there could not be community-led teams. Teams (software) is key element when collaborating in an agile team. There could be even challenges that people does not work in the same time zone nor geographical location but with Teams there is possibility tackle those challenges and work together asynchronously.
Session will present different leadership styles and then combine the Teams basic working methods. This session is more like playbook for successful teamwork which is based on Teams and Microsoft collaboration tools. There will be presented good practices how to communicate, be present and participate on the organization / community.
Agile Master in Power Platform and Copilot Studio
How to keep up the project? How to split the user stories or even build them? Does Power Platform development projects vary from traditional development, since output can be done in hours?
Each project needs planning, governance, retrospectives and guidance no matter how easy or complex the solution is. When there is not specifications, no assumptions nor expectations the delivery could be anything and customer or people asking the MVP is always disappointed.
This session covers how to adjust Agile methodologies with Power Platform development. It will give live examples on creating Copilot Studio AI generated bot, Power Automate, Power Apps and other solution components from idea into delivered product. In the end some words about pipelines and monitoring.
Key takeaways are
- Build Copilot Studio AI featured bot
- Build Power Automate and Power Apps
- Specify the expectations
- Create user story
- Split technical tasks
- Implement solution
- Deliver and monitor the solution
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