ALM

Raise your hand if you’ve exported a Power Platform solution, imported it into Test… and suddenly your flows are connecting to production data.

Yeah. Been there.

It’s one of the classic “gotchas” in Power Platform development — hard-coded values that work beautifully in Dev but blow up in Test or Production.

That’s why environment variables exist.

In my recent post on Why ALM Matters More Than Ever in Power Platform & Dynamics 365, I talked about how application lifecycle management is critical to delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

But there’s one piece of ALM that deserves its own spotlight:

Automated testing.

Because here’s the truth:

🚨 Manually clicking through test scripts is not a scalable strategy.

Not when:

It's time to set the record straight! Low-code isn’t “low risk.”

As Power Platform and Dynamics 365 continue to drive digital transformation across industries, organizations are realizing something critical:

Without Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), even the most innovative solutions can become fragile, inconsistent, and unscalable.

The Power Platform is designed to empower — and it absolutely does.

But in every organization I’ve worked with, from public sector to enterprise SaaS, I see the same mistakes again and again.

These are the pitfalls that:

The Microsoft Power Platform is one of the most powerful low-code environments available today. It empowers teams to automate workflows, build apps, analyze data, and connect systems faster than ever before.

But with great power comes… well, chaos — unless you have governance.

After 15+ years working with Dynamics CRM and now Power Platform across public, private, and non-profit sectors, I can tell you this:

The difference between a successful Power Platform rollout and a “we-need-to-rewrite-this” disaster is governance.