Application lifecycle management (ALM) with Microsoft Power Platform

Learn how to implement application lifecycle management (ALM) using Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Virtual Agents).

About ALM with Power Platform

Overview

• What is ALM?

Concept

• ALM basics with Power Platform
• Environment strategy

Reference

• Tools and apps used for ALM

Understand and work with solutions

Concept

• Solution concepts
• Understand solution layers
• Use solutions to customize
• Segment solutions

Implement healthy ALM

Concept

• Scenario 0: ALM for a new project
• Scenario 1: Citizen development ALM
• Scenario 2: Moving from a single environment
• Scenario 3: Moving from unmanaged to managed solutions
• Scenario 4: Use DevOps for automation
• Scenario 5: Support team development
• Scenario 6: Embrace citizen developers

For developers

Concept

• ALM for developers
• Work with solution components
• Solution and packaging tools
• Manage solutions using custom code

ALM automation

Overview

• Use Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps
• Use GitHub Actions for Power Platform
• Deploy solutions using pipelines
• CoE: Set up ALM Accelerator
• CoE: Use ALM Accelerator

Related docs

Overview

• Create apps in Power Apps
• What is Microsoft Dataverse?
• Work with solutions
• Power Platform admin guide
• Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Kit
• Best practices and guidance when using Microsoft Dataverse
• Canvas apps coding standards and guidelines