Organization:
1. Preparation: the Partner receives “The Ready! Kick-off” workshop checklist, reviews its current status for each topic and prepares open questions. Partner and ISV Development Center connect on-line to review workshop agenda and conversations and agree on additional topics (if any).
2. Workshop: Partner and ISV Development Center meet on-site for 1 full workshop day in order to:
- Discuss the checklist to assess solution readiness.
- Discuss potential ways to get ready.
- Agree on the next steps.
Participants from Partner: Business lead, Sales lead, Technical lead.
Participants from the ISV Development Center: Commercial Lead and Technical Lead.
3. Post workshop engagement: not less than 3 weeks after the workshop Partner and ISV Development Center connects on-line to validate and assess areas where Partner was not ready during the workshop, but is ready now. After the post workshop engagement, the ISV Development Center provides an updated Summary report.
4. Outcome: (shared with Partner and Microsoft within 1 week after the workshop):
- A Summary report, that contains:
- Assessment conclusion (e.g. Solution is considered ready for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central OR Solution needs improvements to be considered ready for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ).
- High-level learnings.
- Do’s for Partner.
- Suggestions/recommendations from the ISV Development Center.
- Partner solution status assessment per each validation point with recommendation for the next step (if any).