
For yesterday’s 2022 January DC Chapter Meeting, we had the amazing Manuela Pichler and Mike Ochs share with us about the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter kit. This was a great presentation about all the value this set of tools can bring and how it can be used to improve your ALM practices.
What is the CoE Starter Kit?
The CoE Starter Kit is a collection of tools to help you manage and grow your Power Platform usage. Manuela Pichler (LinkedIn, Twitter) kicked it off by sharing how the CoE starter kit can help you own your own digital transformation.

Telemetry is used to surface all kinds of analytics about your Power Platform environment. This can be used to identify who your champions are, see the reach of the platform and much more.
We also went through a demo of several of the tools. Keep in mind that you do not need to use everything. You can install the CoE Starter Kit and then choose the pieces that will be right for your organization.
Components of the CoE Starter Kit
Here are a few of the tools we looked at.




ALM Accelerators
Next, Mike Ochs (LinkedIn, Twitter) took it away to talk through the development process and ALM Accelerators. He also did a demo of the process to create a new solution and manage it through the ALM Accelerator for Power Platform Power App.


Watch the Recording
The full recording is available here:
Resources
For more information, check out these great resources:
- CoE Starter Kit Documentation
- CoE Starter Kit GitHub
- Office Hours
- Resources for the Power Platform
- Power Platform Adoption
- Power Platform ALM
- Microsoft Power CAT Team on YouTube
Next Steps
This was an amazing meeting and we hope you join us for the next one! You can keep up with all our group’s events on Meetup. You can also see other community happenings on my Events Page.
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