Application lifecycle management best practices

In the previous sections, we learned about the two key ALM pillars for Power Platform solution development: solution management and ALM automation using tools like Azure DevOps. In this section, you will learn several best practices for how to make the best of using these two components.

Solution best practices

First, we will provide an overview of solution management-related best practices for how to properly use solution types, structure and segment solutions, and use publishers.

General practices

It is the best practice to always create a specific solution package for a defined purpose and not use the default solution or just try to customize the environment outside of any dedicated solution package. While it is possible to include existing components in a solution package at any time, this should be only used to include standard components and never for custom components. Custom components should be always created...