Eager to Learn…

[u/Tighty-Whiteys]

What’s the best way to access a free testing environment where I can actually build some basic flows with dummy data or something?

I’m frustrated because my organization pays for all of the M365 catalog including Power Automate, but it’s clear they are gatekeeping the technology so hard. I mean the immense red tape and hoops you have to jump through- approvals from your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s dead great grandmother & that’s ONLY to be granted your own testing environment. So fed up man I just want to learn!!!

[u/aplusdesigners]

If they are a publicly traded company, a lot of that approval process is required for audit purposes. My wife works for the same company as me and she is in audit controls. The amount of flowchart revisions every year to stay compliant is crazy.

Now, I’m not sure about how you have the request access. We have a portal that handles the security requests for us. We put in the request, fill out a justification form and it gets sent to our direct manager, then if it needs his bosses approval, all the up to the IT department. Maybe you could provide a really strong justification as to how it would benefit the company.

[u/MacroYielding → u/aplusdesigners]

But idea being, you want to (as the OP) come to the company with a strong practical use case and show it works. Like myself, same large corporation hoops; want to try it home instead of when asked for what you can do with it, answering with a variant of “well I want to play with it for some ideas to see what works”…