So far, we understand the architecture and technical concepts related to development in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. Now, it's time to explore the development process itself. The key objective of the development process is to ensure a scalable, maintainable, and highly performant 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 analyze how they relate to developing a custom solution in Finance and Operations, what capabilities the system offers, and the best practices to follow during each step.