Almost every Power Apps job post I’ve read in the last two years mentions Dataverse. Yet many candidates who build great Canvas apps freeze once the conversation moves to the data layer. That makes sense. You can build a lot on SharePoint lists without ever thinking about security roles, relationships, or plug-ins. Then the interviewer … read more…
I still remember the first time a client asked me to “just move the app to production real quick.” I had built everything directly inside the default environment, with no solution at all. Moving it turned into a two-day mess of missing tables and broken relationships. That mistake taught me why a Dataverse solution exists … read more…
I still remember the first time a client asked me to move their entire operations off five different SharePoint lists and three Excel files. Every list had different column names for the same thing. Nothing talked to anything else. That’s the exact problem Microsoft Dataverse was built to solve. If you’ve been building Canvas apps … read more…
When I started building an Employee HR Assistant in Microsoft Copilot Studio, I noticed something very quickly. Adding company documents as knowledge was not enough. Employees asked simple questions like, “How many annual leave days do I get?”, “Can I work from home?”, and “How do I submit an expense claim?” The agent had the … read more…
A few months back, one of my mentees sat for a Power Apps developer interview at a big consulting firm and came back a little rattled. It wasn’t the basic Canvas app questions that tripped her up — it was the mix of practical scenarios, Dataverse architecture, and a couple of curveballs on AI Builder … read more…
A sales manager opens a monthly dashboard and wants a quick answer: “How did March perform compared with February?” In many early Power BI reports, the date filter shows every single day. That creates a long, messy list that users avoid. I have seen this issue often when teams move from Excel reports to a … read more…
Every time I need to set up a new SharePoint site, list, or library, I don’t want to click through the UI ten times just to add a few columns. I want a script I can run once, change a couple of values, and be done in under a minute. That’s exactly what this post … read more…
A sales manager often starts with a familiar problem: several Excel files, a SharePoint list, and no quick way to see monthly sales, top products, or low-performing regions. I have worked with teams that spent hours combining files and updating summary tables before every review meeting. That process changes quickly when you create a report … read more…
