Scenario 0: ALM for a new project

If you're new to Power Apps and creating your first app, follow the tasks described in this article to successfully deploy a functioning application to your production environment using a healthy application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy.

Task	Description	More information
1. Plan and implement your environment strategy.	Determining the environments you'll need and establishing an appropriate governance model is a critical first step. At a minimum, you should have two environments: dev and production. However, we recommend that you have three environments: dev, test, and production.	Environment strategy
2. Create a solution and publisher.	Start with a blank solution, and create a custom publisher for that solution.	Solution publisher
3. Set up your DevOps project.	Set up a DevOps project in which you'll later add several pipelines to perform required processing like export and deployment of your solution.	Setting up continuous integration and deployment Create a project
4. Create your export from development pipeline in DevOps.	Create a DevOps pipeline to export your completed unmanaged solution to a managed solution.	Create your first pipeline Build and release pipelines Build pipeline: Export a solution from development (DEV)
5. Configure and build your app.	Create your app within the solution you created.	Model-driven apps: Build your first model-driven app from scratch Canvas apps: Create an app from scratch using Microsoft Dataverse
6. Add any additional customizations to that solution.	Add additional components as needed. Choose from a vast selection of components, such as flows, AI models, export to data lake configuration, web resources, plug-ins, and even other apps.	Create components in a solution Add an existing component to a solution
7. Create a deployment pipeline in DevOps.	Create a DevOps pipeline to deploy your managed solution to one or more target production environments.	Build and release pipelines Release pipeline: Deploy to production (PROD)
8. Grant access to the app.	Assign licensing and assign security roles to share applications with users.	Licensing Share a model-driven app Share a canvas app

See also

Scenario 1: Citizen development (app and flow makers)