Training Module 3: Learn Microsoft Power Platform

Power Automate, In Motion: Flows That Work While You Sleep

Your Power Platform Trainer: J. H. Irwin
Author | Content Creator | Technology Strategist

At the end of Module 2, you held something you built in your own hand: a working app on your phone, collecting your team's requests into a proper cloud database

I promised that this time we would make that work move, and I intend to keep that promise. By the end of this module, your app will have a colleague. It will not take lunch breaks, it will not forget, and it will notice a new request the instant one arrives, at two in the afternoon or two in the morning, and quietly do something useful about it.

That colleague is Power Automate, and I want to be honest about why I find it the most quietly life-changing tool in the entire platform. Apps are visible; people admire apps. But the hours that disappear from most working lives do not vanish into a lack of apps. They vanish into forwarding, reminding, copying, checking, and nudging, the connective tissue of work that nobody is paid to do and everybody does anyway. Automation gives those hours back, and it does it without fanfare. Nobody ever sees the reminder you did not have to send.

If you are joining the series here, welcome. Module 1 maps the whole Power Platform in plain English, and Module 2 walks you through creating a free developer environment and building a Team Request tracker app. This module builds directly on that app, so if you skipped the homework, twenty minutes with Module 2 will set you up.