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APPENDIX BMicrosoft FastTrack for Dynamics 365

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

—Aristotle

The FastTrack for the Dynamics 365 program is driven through the Microsoft engineering team and is focused on providing experiences and learnings from thousands of Dynamics 365 implementations around the world through a prescriptive and recommended guidance approach called Success by Design. The team is an organization of Solution Architects spread across the world that engage both directly with customers, and indirectly through qualified partners, to share recommended practices and identify deployment blockers in order to drive successful implementations.

This chapter will help you better understand what FastTrack for Dynamics 365 offers and how you can engage with the program to accelerate your implementation.

Success by Design

To understand the FastTrack for Dynamics 365 program, you need to understand Success by Design, which is the basis for how FastTrack engages with customers and partners. Success by Design is the collection of prescriptive guidance, approaches, and recommended practices, for designing, building, and deploying Dynamics 365 solutions.

There are three core principles in Success by Design:

1. Early detection. Issues and risks to implementation success should be found as early in the process as possible so that any potential negative impact can be avoided or greatly reduced. Success by Design relies on planned reviews, occurring ...