Development process 

So far we understand the architecture and concepts related to development in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. Now its time to explore the development process itself. The key objective of the development process is to ensure a scalable, maintainable, and high-performing application.

The following diagram shows the steps that a developer goes through while developing custom solutions:

In this section, we will go through these steps and analyse how it relates to developing a custom solution in Finance and Operations, what capabilities system offers and best practices to follow during each steps.

Conceptualization

The first step of the development process is conceptualizing the solution. You must understand the problem that you are trying to solve. At this stage, you need to the where and the what—where in the standard flow you need to add your code, and what code can be reused from the standard one. Remember Finance and Operations provides numerous...