Best practices

Let’s also talk about some of the best practices when it comes to ALM.

Everything should be managed

Every environment that is not dev (or hotfix) should be handled with managed solutions.

Use as few solutions as possible

It is recommended to use as few solutions as possible to minimize the management work needed.

Use only changed components

Solutions should only contain changed components.

Have at least dev, test, and prod

When it comes to environments, we should always have at least development, test, and production. In some cases, there might be a need for some additional environments too.

Use an evaluation environment for early access

We should use a separate evaluation environment to test early access features.

Create connection references manually

We should create connection references manually to be able to set the correct schema name.

As few connection references as possible

It is recommended to use as few connection...