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What skills should a developer develop to progress from a Business Central AL Developer to a Dynamics 365 Business Central Technical Consultant?

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Moving from AL development to a Technical Consultant role requires developers to expand beyond writing extensions and understand the complete Business Central solution lifecycle. Explore functional processes, solution architecture, integrations, APIs, security, performance, ALM, deployment, troubleshooting, requirements analysis, and technical documentation. Learn how technical consultants translate business requirements into scalable Business Central solutions while working with functional consultants and stakeholders. This transition is an important career path for AL developers looking to take greater ownership of enterprise implementations.
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An AL Developer primarily focuses on implementing extensions. A Technical Consultant must additionally understand business processes, solution architecture, integrations, ALM, performance, security and technical decision-making.

Microsoft's current Business Central developer guidance emphasizes AL development, troubleshooting, performance, extensions, integrations, source control and CI/CD.

The progression should include:

AL Development → Extension Architecture → Integration → Security → Performance → Testing → CI/CD → Solution Design

The developer should become comfortable discussing processes such as Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash and financial operations, and translating those requirements into Business Central extensions.

A strong project could involve a custom purchasing process, approval workflow, external integration, API exposure, automated tests and CI/CD.

The biggest career shift is learning to answer:

"How should we solve this business requirement?"

rather than only:

"How do I write the AL code?"

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