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 "id": "dynamics-365-blueprint-writer",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Dynamics 365 implementation planner",
 "summary": "Bring business goals and limits. Get a proposed Dynamics 365 plan with scope, dependencies and open choices.",
 "headline": "Dynamics 365 implementation planner",
 "subhead": "Share business goals, users, current systems and limits. It maps a proposed Dynamics 365 scope, process areas and dependencies, then lists choices to confirm.",
 "job": {
  "id": "document-work",
  "name": "Write down how work gets done"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Your programme goals and business case.",
  "Your list of legal entities, countries and phases.",
  "Your scope: which Dynamics 365 apps and modules.",
  "Known limits, such as budgets, laws and tools you must keep.",
  "Decisions already made, including licence or product choices (optional).",
  "Your last blueprint file, for later sessions (optional)."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A saved 14-section solution blueprint.",
  "A progress tracker showing what is done and what is open.",
  "A decision log with rationale, rejected options, effects, owner and date.",
  "Lists of assumptions and open items, each with an owner and date.",
  "A flag on any of the eight hard-to-reverse decisions still open.",
  "A prompt to get an independent review at the end."
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "You are starting a Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain project and need a system plan.",
  "Your team must decide legal entities, phasing or data rules before design starts.",
  "You want every choice written down with who made it and why.",
  "You are picking up a blueprint from an earlier session."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You want a review of a design that already exists: ask a solution architect or a design review step, because this skill writes a new blueprint.",
  "You only need a one-off plan for a small change: a short written plan is enough, so skip the 14-section blueprint.",
  "You need detailed interface specs, role lists or a timed cutover plan: use a specialist step or a person for that detail, as this skill stays at decision level."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your programme goals and business case",
   "Your legal entities, countries and scope (apps, modules, phases)",
   "Known constraints and decisions already made",
   "Your last blueprint file, if this is a later session (optional)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI that can save and re-open a file between sessions, or you paste the last file back in each time",
   "Access to Microsoft Learn for checking product claims (optional)"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Solution blueprint file",
    "contains": "Fourteen sections covering scope, operating model, application, data, integration, migration, security, environments, reporting, performance, testing, cutover and support."
   },
   {
    "name": "Progress tracker",
    "contains": "Which sections are done, in progress or waiting, kept at the top of the file."
   },
   {
    "name": "Decision log",
    "contains": "Each decision with rationale, rejected options, downstream effects, who decided and the date."
   },
   {
    "name": "Assumptions register",
    "contains": "Things believed true but not checked, each with an owner and a date to check."
   },
   {
    "name": "Open items",
    "contains": "Undecided points with an owner and a needed-by date, marked inline and listed together."
   },
   {
    "name": "Load-bearing open items",
    "contains": "Any of the eight hard-to-reverse decisions still open, plus the sections that depend on them."
   },
   {
    "name": "Architect's notes",
    "contains": "Where your AI disagrees with a decision, its advice and the risk it sees."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open your AI and paste in the skill, or upload the skill folder if your AI takes files.",
  "Start with session 1: share your goals, legal entities, scope and known limits.",
  "Answer the 3 to 5 questions for each section, and pick from the options it offers. Say OPEN if you cannot decide.",
  "After each section, read the draft and check the decision log for owner and date.",
  "Save the blueprint file it gives you. In the next session, paste it back first so your AI picks up where you stopped.",
  "When all sections are done, ask a second architect to review the blueprint."
 ],
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  "url": "https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/613efc8c21d9b3ce642dff361d17006cd9967e28/skills/d365-solution-blueprint",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "d365-solution-blueprint",
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  {
   "title": "d365-solution-blueprint skill",
   "by": "github",
   "url": "https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/613efc8c21d9b3ce642dff361d17006cd9967e28/skills/d365-solution-blueprint",
   "used": "Original instructions and supporting files, with attribution and the MIT licence. Display copy describes the task."
  }
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  "LICENSE",
  "references/section-guide.md"
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