Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

The development process

The key objective of the development process is to ensure a scalable, maintainable, and high-performing application. The following diagram shows the critical steps for the development process while developing customizations for Dynamics AX:

Conceptualization

The first step of the development process is conceptualizing the application. You must understand the problem that you are trying to solve. At this stage, you need to identify the where and the what—where in the standard flow do you need to add your code, and what code can be reused from the standard one.

Dynamics AX provides numerous application frameworks and patterns ...