Develop a Microsoft Fabric Adoption Plan

A Fabric adoption plan translates the strategic goals of your data and analytics vision into an actionable roadmap. Your technical and business teams can use this plan to effectively align technical efforts with your organization's strategic objectives.

Use the following exercises to document your organization's technology strategy in the context of Microsoft Fabric. These steps help you identify and prioritize relevant tasks. At the end of the process, your Fabric adoption plan will directly reflect the metrics and motivations defined in the strategy phase.

Exercises

Exercise	Description
Inventory your digital estate	Inventory and rationalize your data and analytics estate based on strategic motivation and desired business outcomes. Prioritize data products, pipelines, Lakehouses, Warehouses, and Workspaces.
Establish initial organization alignment	Define a structure for early organizational alignment—especially for workspace governance, role assignments, deployment processes, and automation.
Create a skills readiness plan	Define how to close skill gaps with targeted training on Fabric components like Dataflows Gen2, Lakehouses, Real-Time Intelligence, and Semantic Models.
Develop the Fabric Adoption Plan	Create an iterative Fabric adoption plan to manage changes across skills, technology, and organizational structures and enable phased rollout.

Use your strategic artifacts from the Strategy phase as guidance. In addition, the Five Fs of Fabric Rationalization offer helpful techniques to assess and prioritize workloads and applications within the Fabric platform.

Tip: In Fabric-based environments, consider using a "Product Thinking" approach to your data assets. Treat Dataflows, Lakehouses, and Warehouses as standalone products with lifecycles, operational responsibility, and continuous improvement paths.