Power Platform Bootcamp
A two-day workshop that turns your team into safe Power Platform builders. Hands-on Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, paired with the governance frame that keeps citizen development sustainable rather than chaotic.
Why citizen developer programmes go wrong.
Citizen developer adoption goes wrong in the same way at most mid-market firms. IT enables Power Platform across the tenant. A small number of enthusiastic builders create their first apps and flows. The apps work, the flows automate something useful, and the firm declares Power Platform a success. Eighteen months later, those same apps and flows are still in production, the enthusiastic builders have moved on, nobody else can support what they built, and IT spends Friday afternoons fixing things they did not write.
The Bootcamp fixes the root cause. We pair hands-on building — so participants can do the work — with the governance frame — so the work they do is supportable, secure, and scalable. The output is a team that can build the next ten apps themselves while knowing which work to bring back to Cloudbliss.
What the bootcamp covers.
Two full days, split into morning hands-on building and afternoon governance and discipline.
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Day 1 morning · Power Apps
Canvas vs model-driven
Screens + controls
Data connections
Build a real app live
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Day 1 afternoon · Automate
Triggers + actions
Conditions + loops
Common patterns
Apps + flows together
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Day 2 morning · Dataverse
Dataverse vs SharePoint lists
Simple data modelling
Security roles
When to use what
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Day 2 afternoon · Governance
Environments + DLP
ALM + solutions
What to call us for
Sustainable patterns
Deliverables you can hold us to.
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Two full days of live training, in-person or remote, delivered by a Cloudbliss senior engineer
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Participant workbook covering every concept with screenshots and step-by-step instructions
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Recording of both days for absent staff or refresher viewing
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The working Power App and Power Automate flows you built during the session, kept in your tenant
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A 'what to build, what to outsource' decision framework specific to your firm
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Governance checklist your firm can adopt as the standard for citizen development
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60-day Q&A channel for follow-up questions as participants start building real things
Mid-market firms with Power Apps and Power Automate already in their licence (Business Premium or higher includes the basics), who have a handful of staff in operations, finance, HR, or business analyst roles who are technically curious and would benefit from being able to build their own apps and flows.
How it runs.
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Pre-bootcamp call
60 minutes. Talk with the senior person commissioning the bootcamp, agree the attendee mix, identify one or two real workflows we will build live during the session.
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The bootcamp
Two consecutive days. Live training. Hands-on for the morning sessions. Governance and discipline for the afternoons.
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Follow-up
60 days. The Q&A channel stays open. Participants ask questions as they start building real things. At day 60 we send a summary of the most-asked questions.
The price band, and how it lands.
Remote, up to 12
£2,400
Live remote delivery, recording included
In-person, London, up to 15
£3,200
Travel included
In-person, rest of UK, up to 20
£4,500
Travel included
Related work
Often paired with this accelerator.
Common questions.
Do attendees need to be technical?
Not in the software development sense. They do need to be comfortable with computers, willing to think in terms of 'what triggers what,' and have a process or workflow they want to build something for. The classic attendee is a business analyst, an operations manager, a finance team member, or an HR specialist.
What if my team has very mixed experience levels?
Common, and we structure the Bootcamp for it. The morning sessions build from first principles, so beginners can follow. The afternoon sessions go into more detail, which keeps the more experienced attendees engaged.
After the Bootcamp, what is our team realistically capable of building?
A trained citizen developer can build a single-screen Power App against a SharePoint list, a multi-step Power Automate flow with conditional logic and approvals, and a small Dataverse model. They will struggle with model-driven apps for complex business processes, integrations to non-Microsoft systems, and regulated industry compliance requirements.
How does the governance frame fit with the rest of our IT policy?
We make it fit, rather than handing you a generic framework. The afternoon sessions are tuned to your firm's existing IT and security posture. If you have an ISO 27001 system, the Bootcamp governance aligns with that.
Can we run the Bootcamp annually for new hires?
Yes, and several clients do. After the first session we hand over the workbook and recording for internal use; subsequent annual runs are usually less expensive because the content is settled.