{"id":12981,"date":"2021-01-14T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/use-the-innovation-backlog-to-manage-app-and-flow-ideas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:55:59","slug":"use-the-innovation-backlog-to-manage-app-and-flow-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/use-the-innovation-backlog-to-manage-app-and-flow-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Use the Innovation Backlog to manage app and flow ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re excited to introduce you to the Innovation Backlog<\/a> \u2013 a new app that\u2019s part of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Innovation Backlog app gives your business users a place to record and prioritize their wish list of digital innovations. Your teams can use this app to submit ideas for apps and flows and describe pain points with the current process. Using a wizard to describe the current process, team members provide information about the people involved, the tools used, and ways to measure improvement. This information is then used to calculate an ROI and a complexity score.<\/p>\n

You can deploy the app in your Power Apps environment or embed the app in Microsoft Teams using Dataverse for Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Browse ideas that have been submitted, vote on ideas or add your own scenarios to an existing idea. From the dashboard, you can also pick the most impactful ideas for your development team to build or select them for an upcoming hackathon.<\/p>\n

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Add your own idea to the Innovation Backlog by describing the current process, people and tools involved.<\/p>\n

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Describe ways to measure improvement and value – this could time or money savings, or increasing employee or customer engagement.<\/p>\n

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After the work is delivered, developers can request feedback and testimonials to build their portfolio.<\/p>\n

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The current release is the first version of the Innovation Backlog – we are already planning further features, such as a dashboard to help with your decision making.<\/p>\n

Get started<\/h2>\n

Directly download the solution pack at\u00a0aka.ms\/CoEStarterKitDownload<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The documentation explains how to set up the\u00a0Innovation Backlog<\/a>\u00a0and how to use the components<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CoE Starter Kit Overview<\/h2>\n

The\u00a0Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit<\/a>\u00a0is a set of templates that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting, maintaining and supporting the Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate.<\/p>\n

The Innovation Backlog can be used standalone and has no dependency on other CoE Starter Kit components.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/h2>\n

Although the underlying features and components used to build the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit (such as Dataverse and connectors) are fully supported, the kit itself represents sample implementations of these features. Our customers and community can use and customize these features to implement admin and governance capabilities in their organizations.<\/p>\n

If you face issues with:<\/p>\n