Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

Things to know before writing an FDD

FDDs speak the application language and terminology, so business analysts writing the functional design documents must understand the Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition application and functionality. A lack of product knowledge and understanding can keep the documents at a high level, pushing the design aspects to the developers, which deviates from the purpose of the documents.

Always ensure that all the key decisions made during the design time are recorded in the key decision log and signed off from the project team. Recommended areas where key decisions are mostly taken are as follows:

• Financials
• Inventory costing
• Adjustments
• Integrations
• Reporting

Also, all assumptions should ...